Curriculum Vitae
Principal Strategic Advisor | GovTech & FinTech Infrastructure
A public record of the roles behind four decades of work on mission-critical systems. No secure channel required — read it, share it, cite it.
Advisory
2022 — Present
California Department of Technology — Identity Gateway (IDG)
Sacramento, California
Strategic advisory on the statewide digital identity layer: architecture review, vendor and policy alignment, and delivery sequencing for citizen-facing verification used across state financial and government services.
2016 — Present
Josef Vemark Advisory
Remote / Global
Confidential advisory to public bodies, regulators, and financial institutions on high-stakes programme recovery, vendor disputes, and modernization strategy.
Executive
2009 — 2016
National Payments & Benefits Infrastructure Programme
Europe / North America
Led the consolidation of fragmented state payout pipelines into a single resilient, auditable payments platform, retiring decades of legacy batch processing.
2001 — 2009
Public Sector Digital Services Group
Stockholm, Sweden
Owned architecture standards for citizen-facing services, including the first generation of shared authentication and registry integration.
Early Career
1983 — 2001
Financial & Government Systems Integrators
Nordics / United Kingdom
Four decades of practice began on mainframe financial systems and core banking migrations, moving through integration engineering into architecture leadership.
Governance
2018 — Present
Digital Identity Standards Working Group
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Contributes to guidance on assurance levels, privacy-preserving verification, and interoperability between state and federal identity systems.
Education
1983
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH)
Stockholm, Sweden
A separate public record of keynotes and working sessions on identity, legacy modernization, and crisis advisory.