Helen Littlewood leads Paymark’s digital identity solutions, helping New Zealand businesses securely verify customer identities while simplifying compliance and improving customer experiences. She brings extensive experience working across government and industry, including serving as co-lead of Air New Zealand’s Future Borders Taskforce, which helped enable the safe reopening of borders during the pandemic. Today, Helen is applying that expertise to develop New Zealand’s first digital identity acceptance network, making it easier for consumers to access services and for organisations to onboard customers with confidence