Yarger

About Yarger

Building the future of Sustainable Impact Verification through open standards and partnerships. Leading innovation of digital infrastructure for carbon and environmental reporting and accounting markets. Defining the use of cutting edge technologies, and helping project developers and operators to easily monitor, report and verify their impact with transparent and secure data solutions. Speaking on the need for trust and transparency around impact data, why security needs to be at the core of solutions and standards, and not an afterthought, and scaling integrations across biogas, mobility, smart city, and circular solutions with international networks of partners and contributors. Served as a US Army Combat Veteran, Cyber Security Analyst & Operations Planner at the National Security Agency, & Digital Forensics professional at the Department of Defense Cyber Crime Center, Head of Sustainability and Smart Cities at the IOTA Foundation, and is now leading a sustainable impact verification focused venture with more information coming in the near future.A strong advocate for enhanced privacy and policy around data and data management. Involved in global initiatives to create data and metadata standards and raises awareness on how data can be structured and distributed on both a hardware and software level.Some speaking sessions include(links included if available)- Austin Transportation partnership and concepts discussion - - United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees Pitch in Copenhagen - European Space Agency PhiWeek 2019 (starts at 51:00)- https://livestream.com/esa/phiweek2019/videos/19•••••12 - United Nations Smart Camp Summit - Mobility Open Blockchain Institute - https://dlt.mobi/mobi-community-innovation-lecture-iota/- IOTA Evangelist Network Open Discussion - - IOTA and Dell introduction to Project Alvarium -

Experience

1. Founder & CEO

   Demia

   Jul 2023 — Present · US

   At Demia, we\'re focused on enabling Trust in Data for carbon markets. We believe that regulated and voluntary carbon markets will scale exponentially through high-quality data, transparent infrastructure, and streamlined analytics and reporting. We\'re on a mission to secure data, reduce friction, amplify impact, and unlock value for project developers, auditors, and carbon market standards through holistic, open, and secure digital infrastructure. We\'re unlocking faster credit issuance cycles with higher-value credits and industry-leading levels of quality and integrity. As the Founder & and CEO of Demia, I focus on a few key actions- Driving innovation - Ensuring operational excellence - Generating Revenue - Setting the strategic path - Leading and building the team - Enabling team leaders to focus on what they\'re best at - Building partnerships and the ecosystem and - Representing the company.

Education

• Anne Arundel Community College

  Associate of Science (A.S.), Architecture

  2014 — 2016

• University of Maryland Global Campus

  Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.), Computer Science

  2016 — 2018