Ismail Vali is the inventor, founder and CEO of Yield Sec, and leads a team of experts in the creation of a technical intelligence platform that helps monitor, police, enforce, and optimize the licensed marketplace across online betting, gaming, and lottery activity. Yield Sec's mission focuses on removing black-market threats to revenue, taxation, and consumer protection, benefiting the ecosystem overall. Ismail's background in product development, marketing, and operations, with numerous C-level operator positions in the betting and gaming industry, coupled with his academic legal background, including a BA and MA in Law from Brasenose College, Oxford University, led to the invention of a unique solution to restrict and remove the harm caused by what has long been an endemic online industry problem: crime and its impact upon commerce, consumers, and the community.