MCLEAN, Va., Sept. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — ID.me, the market-leading digital identity wallet, today announced two major additions to its executive management team. Susannah Stroud Wright has joined as Chief Legal Officer to lead ID.me’s legal, compliance, and government affairs functions as the company scales its use of AI. Darragh Whelan has simultaneously joined as Executive Vice President of Engineering to lead all product and platform engineering.
“Susannah and Darragh both bring decades of expertise at a time when product, user, and legal questions are increasingly interconnected,” said Blake Hall, Founder and CEO of ID.me. “As AI raises the stakes for digital verification, it’s imperative that legal and engineering are inseparable, not just aligned. When you serve federal agencies and the millions of people relying on them, compliance isn’t a constraint on the product—it’s a feature of it. Susannah and Darragh both build that way, and that’s exactly what ID.me’s next stage of growth requires.”
Susannah Stroud Wright, Chief Legal Officer
Wright joins ID.me after eight years as Chief Legal Officer & Secretary of Credit Karma, where she built and led a 60-person legal, compliance, and government affairs organization as the company scaled from $500 million to nearly $2 billion in revenue and over 140 million members.
Wright has deep experience with building legal and compliance frameworks for the responsible use of AI and has been a speaker on Responsible AI at TEDAI and at Fortune’s Most Powerful Women conferences. Prior to joining Credit Karma, Wright led the compliance functions at Tesla and SolarCity. She was also a prosecutor in Atlanta, Georgia, earlier in her career, where she handled all manner of felony cases and worked with local political representatives and community leaders on preventing and reducing crime. Among her many accolades, Wright was named “General Counsel of the Year” by Women, Influence & Power in Law in 2020 and one of the 100 Most Influential Women in Business in the Bay Area by the San Francisco Business Times in 2022.
“Identity verification sits at the intersection of some of the most consequential legal and technical questions in tech today, including trust, fraud, and how millions of people access the services they need most. I’m looking forward to helping ID.me navigate those questions in the age of AI and better serve our users, at a moment when getting this right matters more than ever.”
Darragh Whelan, Executive Vice President of Engineering
Whelan joins ID.me having most recently served as Senior Vice President of Engineering at Mastercard, where he led a 350-plus-person team of product managers, engineers, and data engineers building AI and decisioning systems that make real-time decisions at massive scale. He spent the three years before that as Vice President of Engineering at Chime, leading a 200-person engineering organization across risk, member services, identity management, data engineering and science, and the company’s decisioning platform.
“What drew me to ID.me is rare: a platform operating at true national scale that still moves like a much smaller company. Fraud and identity threats evolve by the day, and staying ahead of them without slowing down the people who depend on our system is exactly the kind of problem I want to spend my time solving.”
About ID.me
ID.me is the next-generation digital identity wallet that simplifies how individuals securely prove their identity online. Consumers can verify their identity with ID.me once and seamlessly sign in across websites without having to create a new sign-in and verify their identity again. Over 170 million users experience streamlined sign-in and identity verification with ID.me at 22 federal agencies, 50 state government agencies, and more than 70 healthcare organizations. More than 600 consumer brands use ID.me to verify communities and user segments to honor service and build more authentic relationships. ID.me’s technology meets the federal standards for consumer authentication set by the Commerce Department and is approved as a NIST 800-63-3 IAL2 / AAL2 credential service provider by the Kantara Initiative. ID.me is committed to ‘No Identity Left Behind’ to enable all people to have a secure digital identity. Learn more at https://network.id.me/.
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