# Wyly Wade

> Wyly Wade is the CEO of Biometrica Systems (also operating as Safience), a Las Vegas and Virginia-based company that links physical and digital information to help prevent crime, identify threats, and recover victims. A self-taught coder who published his first video game at age ten and fixed a bug in Lotus Notes 4 while barely out of his teens, Wade has spent more than two decades at the intersection of biometrics, cybersecurity, and public policy. He helped build biometric standards for the U.S. passport, advised the ICAO on e-passports, and was part of the founding core team behind India's Aadhaar, the largest biometric identity program on Earth. Today he is pushing Biometrica toward a privacy-first, biometric-free model of threat and victim detection.

- **Role:** CEO & President at Biometrica Systems (Safience)
- **Organizations:** Biometrica Systems / Safience, 1776, The World Bank, Holliston, Cambridge Technology Partners, Unique Identification Authority of India (Aadhaar), International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), FISWG (Facial Identification Scientific Working Group), InfraGard
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Computer Science and Mathematics, The University of Texas at Austin, Political Science, Harvard University, Cybersecurity program, Harvard Kennedy School
- **Known for:** Helped develop biometric standards for the U.S. passport, Advised the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) on e-passport requirements, Founding core team member of India's Aadhaar, the world's largest biometric identity program (1+ billion enrolled)

## Career timeline

- **1990s (early)** — As a child published his first video game; as a teen built and secured systems for small businesses in the Texas Hill Country
- **mid-1990s** — Helped set up the security practice at Cambridge Technology Partners, focusing on South America and drug cartels
- **1997** — Led a team that conducted an authorized Federal Reserve security test featured on ABC's 20/20
- **2000s** — CTO of Holliston, a U.S. passport maker; expanded offerings to passports and security documents for 85 countries; helped develop U.S. passport biometric standards; advised ICAO on e-passport requirements
- **2009-2011** — Social Protection Consultant for The World Bank
- **late 2000s-2010s** — Founding core team member of the Unique Identification Authority of India (Aadhaar); part of original team building RSBY, India's health insurance program for below-poverty populations
- **2015** — Completed Harvard Kennedy School cybersecurity program
- **2016** — Named CEO & President of Biometrica Systems; also served as Growth Hacker and Mentor for accelerator 1776
- **2017** — Biometrica released UMbRA, a law-enforcement-verified multi-jurisdictional database of arrests and convictions
- **2020s** — Awarded patents on continuous, passive biometric authentication; Biometrica rebrands toward Safience with a privacy-first, biometric-free model

## Achievements

- Helped develop biometric standards for the U.S. passport
- Advised the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) on e-passport requirements
- Founding core team member of India's Aadhaar, the world's largest biometric identity program (1+ billion enrolled)
- Part of the original team building RSBY, India's large-scale health insurance program for below-poverty populations
- Holds U.S. patents including continuous/passive biometric authentication systems
- Built and led security practices and identity programs across 16+ countries
- Brought Department of Defense-developed facial recognition to a private-use mobile application

## Latest updates

- **2025-04** — Active on Instagram (@wylywade) sharing posts and reels.
- **2024** — Biometrica positions itself as Safience, a privacy-first 'trust layer' for threat and victim identification emphasizing biometric-free, sensor-only detection.

## Links

- Website: https://biometrica.com
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/wylywade
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/wylywade
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wylywade/

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Last updated: 2026-06-20