Eric Woodward

Current Role: Senior Advisor, Socure

Eric Woodward is the senior advisor to Socure.

Socure provides digital identity verification and identity fraud prevention. Founded in 2012, the company's mission is to verify 100% of good identities in real time for customers including financial institutions, government agencies and enterprises across all industries.

Prior to Socure, Woodward was engaged in more than a dozen advisory roles — from advising public and private CEOs to senior executives to private equity firms — for digital identity, payments risk and data infrastructure opportunities. Before these advisory positions, Woodward was the group president of Early Warning, a financial institution data consortium, and the parent company of Zelle. During his time at Early Warning, he led the risk services business and initiated the build-out of Zelle's real-time fraud and risk capabilities. Prior to that role, he led the strategy and M&A group at Early Warning.