Kay Chopard

Executive Director

Ms. Kay Chopard is the newly appointed Executive Director of the Kantara Initiative, a nonprofit corporation. The Kantara Initiative is a unique global ‘commons’ that operates conformity assessment, assurance and grant of Trust Marks against de-jure standards under its Trust Framework program while at the same time nurturing ‘beyond-the-state-of-the-art’ ideas and developing specifications to transform the state of digital identity and personal data agency domains.

Ms. Chopard is the former President and CEO of Chopard Consulting based in the Washington, DC metro area and is the founder of the Women’s Leadership Institute, https://womensleadership-institute.com/. She has more than 30 years’ experience in executive leadership in government, nonprofit, and business organizations in the DC area where she has a reputation as a transformative leader who has led organizations through launch, transition, and sustainability to deliver game-changing results. She excels at building networks and collaborations that overcome systemic cultural norms and empowers diverse and inclusive teamwork. She has led several organizations including:


• Executive Director of the National District Attorneys Association (NDAA), serving as the first woman head of the oldest and largest prosecutor organization in the world. She led the organization to create a Women Prosecutors Section and a Metro DAs section, transformed the business model of the organization to diversify revenue and significantly enhance business operations.
• Executive Director of the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG), a nonprofit organization developed in a public-private partnership to implement the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) in partnership with the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Talks About
#government #non-profits #research

Preferred Locations
#NorthAmerica