# Georgina Merhom

> Georgina Merhom is the New York-based founder and CEO of SOLO, a financial data and verification network. A University of Toronto graduate with a background in policy research and cybersecurity investigations, she previously built Zivmi for Egyptian freelancers and now advocates customer-controlled, reusable verification across financial institutions.

- **Role:** Founder and CEO at SOLO
- **Organizations:** SOLO, Zivmi, Flashpoint Intelligence, G7 & G20 Information Centre
- **Nationality:** Egyptian
- **Education:** Honours Bachelor of Arts, double major in Economics and International Relations, University of Toronto
- **Known for:** Founded and leads SOLO., Built Zivmi in partnership with the National Bank of Egypt; later official biographies report its sale to the bank., Reported facilitating payments for more than 4,000 Egyptian freelancers and independent workers in a 2021 public post.

## Career timeline

- **2018** — Reported as a macroeconomics compliance director at the G20 Research Group; appeared on the BiznEX conference program in Cairo.
- **2019** — Listed as a compliance director in the G7 Research Group’s final Charlevoix compliance report.
- **Before SOLO** — Worked as an investigative data analyst at Flashpoint Intelligence.
- **2020** — Later professional biographies date the founding of Zivmi, a platform serving Egyptian digital freelancers, to 2020.
- **2021** — SOLO founder and CEO role begins in June according to Crunchbase; her own 2022 account describes leaving New York for Cairo in June 2021.
- **2024** — Published the OneTrust framework for permissioned financial identity.
- **2025** — Hosted banking conversations with Alex Johnson and Tim Heilman and submitted a CFPB data-rights comment letter.
- **2026** — Published arguments on bank reliance and data accountability; SOLO released its GraphQL schema in September.

## Achievements

- Founded and leads SOLO.
- Built Zivmi in partnership with the National Bank of Egypt; later official biographies report its sale to the bank.
- Reported facilitating payments for more than 4,000 Egyptian freelancers and independent workers in a 2021 public post.
- Contributed to G7 compliance research.

## Latest updates

- **2026-10** — Discussed reusable identity and consumer agency with Katie Perry on This Week in Fintech Partnered, released October 2.
- **2026-09** — SOLO announced its GraphQL schema on September 28, opening access to a permissioned graph of customer information and verification evidence.
- **2026-09** — Published Data Sharing Needs a Chargeback Layer on September 2.
- **2026-08** — Published You Have a Gold Star. Can I Rely on Your Work? on August 11.

## Links

- Website: https://solo.one/authors/georgina-merhom
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/georginamerhom/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/georginamerhom
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/merrhom/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/merrhom

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Last updated: 2026-10-23