Monique Morrow

Who Is Monique Morrow?

With over 25 years of experience as a global technology leader, Monique Morrow has a proven track record of driving business growth and innovation through emerging technologies. She is the President and Co-Founder of The Humanized Internet, a Swiss-based nonprofit focused on digital identity and ethics in technology, advocating for a social approach in the use of these tools.

What is her Background?

Monique Morrow holds multiple key roles in the tech industry, including her recent position as a Venture Partner at Sparklabs Accelerator for Cybersecurity and Blockchain in Washington, D.C. Additionally, she serves as an Independent Director on the Hedera Hashgraph Board of Directors, focusing on communicating the enterprise value of this technology for the telecommunications industry. Her previous role as Senior Distinguished Architect for Emerging Technologies at Syniverse Technologies involved steering strategic direction across the company and its partners in advanced technology initiatives.

Monique’s expertise spans cybersecurity, privacy, mobile payments, ethics in extended reality, and distributed ledger technologies such as blockchain. Her career includes roles at AMD, Ascom Hasler, Swisscom, and Cisco, along with active engagement in the startup community. She leads the IEEE P.7030 Global Extended Reality Working Group and chairs IEEE P.7016 on ethical metaverse systems. Monique also co-chaired the GSMA Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) group and collaborated with the World Economic Forum (WEF) on data policy and digital identity projects.