Summary
Christopher Williams is a Principal Product Manager specializing in fraud, security, and privacy technologies with nine years of cross-disciplinary experience bridging applied cryptography, systems integration, and real-time data acquisition. He helps organizations solve emerging policy and engineering challenges around digital identity, key management, and secure transactions for both human and non-person entities, bringing a scientist’s rigor from a Ph.D. in Physics. Christopher has led cyber risk and engineering teams at Deloitte and Exponent and now drives fraud product strategy at CLEAR while co-chairing Kantara’s Privacy Enhancing Mobile Credentials working group. He is known for applying experimental design and systematic error mitigation to product and security problems—an uncommon blend that turns complex research-grade concepts into auditable, production-ready solutions. Based in New York, he combines academic depth with practical delivery and policy-minded leadership across industry and standards communities.
9 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Physics at University of Chicago
Bachelor's degree, Physics and Astronomy, Bachelor's degree, Physics and Astronomy at The Ohio State University