Daniel Goldscheider graduated from the Theresian Academy in Vienna. He is the founder and Executive Director of the OpenWallet Foundation, the leading non-profit organization for developers to work on open-source components for digital wallets. He also co-founded the OpenWallet Forum together with the International Telecommunication Union, the United Nations specialized agency for information and communication technologies.
He serves as Vice Chair of the Supervisory Board of Valamar Riviera d.d., Croatia’s largest tourism company. Before that, Mr. Goldscheider started yes.com, an open banking scheme, with leading banks in Germany and co-founded Mediaguide, a broadcast monitoring service in the United States, with the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers as well as Aureus Private Equity, which is known today as Invision.
Daniel Goldscheider also served two terms on the Board of Directors of the Global Footprint Network, a charitable non-profit and independent think tank which coined the term footprint as an ecological metric and promotes tools for advancing sustainability.