Encompass has formed an Executive Advisory Board (EAB) as it looks to strengthen the strategic direction of its Corporate Digital Identity (CDI) platform and its application across KYC and compliance workflows. The board is intended to provide senior-level insight as Encompass expands internationally and responds to growing regulatory, data, and technology pressures facing financial institutions.
Rather than a governance body in the formal sense, the EAB is positioned as a source of external challenge and expertise. Its remit spans innovation, customer-centric growth, governance and risk practices, and the practical use of AI in KYC operations, with CDI positioned as the underlying data layer supporting those objectives.
The board is chaired by Doris Honold, who has more than 25 years’ experience in senior leadership roles across global financial institutions, with a focus on transformation, governance, operational resilience, and organisational leadership. Honold has been part of Encompass’s Executive Board since 2021, giving continuity between advisory input and day-to-day strategy.
Alongside Honold, the EAB includes senior industry figures such as David Hudson and Colin Bell, both of whom have held leadership roles at institutions including JP Morgan, HSBC, and Standard Chartered Bank. Collectively, the group brings experience across governance, risk management, compliance, and digital transformation—areas where banks continue to face rising expectations from regulators and supervisors.
From Encompass’s perspective, the board is intended to help the firm anticipate how compliance models are evolving, particularly as institutions look to modernise KYC processes and introduce more automation and AI-driven decisioning. The emphasis is less on product promotion and more on aligning CDI capabilities with how banks actually implement change across operations, data, and control frameworks.
Commenting on the launch, Encompass CEO Wayne Johnson said:
“The launch of the EAB marks a pivotal moment for Encompass and the industry. As financial institutions face unprecedented regulatory and operational challenges, the EAB will ensure we remain at the forefront of innovation.
Leveraging the expertise of global leaders, we can accelerate the adoption of CDI as the essential data foundation for innovation, including AI. By, building trust, improving transparency, and enabling institutions to meet complex KYC requirements with confidence, CDI unlocks the full potential of emerging technologies. This initiative reinforces our mission to deliver transformative solutions that strengthen resilience across the financial ecosystem.”
In practical terms, the EAB will feed into Encompass’s strategic planning by providing market-level insight on where KYC and identity verification are heading, including how regulatory expectations around data quality, explainability, and resilience are likely to develop. This reflects a broader industry shift away from static compliance tooling toward data-driven foundations that can support multiple regulatory and operational use cases.
For Encompass, the creation of the EAB signals an effort to formalise that dialogue with senior practitioners and to ensure its CDI approach remains aligned with real-world implementation challenges faced by global financial institutions.
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