Gunnar Nordseth
Co-Founder Signicat
Gunnar Nordseth is Co-Founder of Signicat, the first and largest Identity Assurance Provider in the world. Since 2007 he has been involved in establishing Signicat as a global leader of cloud based services for electronic identity and electronic signature. He has more than 25 years of experience within information security including electronic identity. While working within electronic identity and authentication for one of the Norwegian banks, Gunnar saw the need for a simpler way of implementing electronic trust for banks and financial institutions. The existing solutions for KYC and authentication were too complex and required highly specialised competence for implementation. There was a potential for offering a cloud based alternative with pan-European coverage offering a wide range of identity services, including KYC, strong authentication and electronic signature through a single point of contact.Gunnar was CEO from the company was founded until January 2020. Since then he has worked with strategic partnerships and innovation in the company.
Gunnar holds a Master’s Degree in Numerical Mathematics from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.
