Tony Ball | CEO
Entrust

Tony Ball is the Chief Executive Officer of Entrust, leading the company’s mission to protect the identities of people, data, and devices from fraud and cyber threats. He is driven by a deep belief that trust must be built into every digital interaction—from verifying identity at onboarding to securing connections and preventing fraud in everyday transactions. Tony brings more than two decades of global leadership experience across identity, authentication, and security technologies. Since joining Entrust in 2016, he has led major parts of the business – including access control, authentication, and the Payments & Identity portfolio – helping advance the company’s growth in identity verification, digital and physical card solutions, and secure digital interactions. Before his time at Entrust, Tony held senior executive roles at HID Global and Gemalto, building deep expertise across the identity and security sectors. His career began at Schlumberger Technologies, where he spent over 20 years in leadership roles across multiple regions. Under his leadership, Entrust’s comprehensive solutions help customers secure every step of the identity lifecycle—verifying identity at onboarding, protecting credentials and transactions, and enabling continuous monitoring to safeguard keys, secrets, and certificates. With this identity centric foundation, organizations can operate, innovate, and grow with confidence. Tony’s passion lies in high growth customer centric use case challenges, scaling through business process excellence and is a culture champion who wants people to deliver to their full potential. For Tony, identity matters, and in this new world of AI and with Post-Quantum on the horizon, he couldn’t be more driven to succeed.