A serial social entrepreneur, Dr. Turner is co-founder and CEO of Verify4--a disruptive mutli-state network solution for real-time income and employment verification. Verify4 wins massively in coverage (above 90% per state), user experience (esign) and price (sorry monopolist). While still in soft launch, Verify4 will rapidly achieve scale and forever change the verifications space. Verify4 and Dr. Turner's other sojourns into the private sector were inspired by his commitment to end "credit invisibility" (a term he coined) through the use of alternative data. Dr. Turner also collaborated with Experian MicroAnalytics on a prospective alternative credit bureau in East Africa (Financial Identity Risk Management or FIRM), an alterantive data credit score for smallholder farmers in India in partnership with eKutir (Finance and Agriculture Risk Management or FARM); and a cutting edge verifications firm in partnership with FIS Certegy (VIE-ability) Dr. Turner currently serves as President and CEO and Founder of the Policy and Economic Research Council (PERC). PERC is a non-profit policy research center focusing upon economic development that has advised governments on five continents. They are global thought leaders on issues of access to finance and credit information sharing.PERC is committed to outcomes rather than sound bites. PERC only develops solutions to asset building challenges that are sustainable in the market. Using information solutions, PERC seeks to increase financial inclusion by more than any single institution on earthAfter serving as a Graduate Fellow at the Columbia Institute for Tele-Information (CITI) at the Columbia Business School in New York City, he was named Executive Director of the Information Services Executive Council (ISEC).Dr. Turner has testified before Congress and numerous state legislatures, and presented studies to a host of domestic and foreign government agencies including the White House (CEA and NEC) on credit issues. He served on the Brookings Institution’s Urban Markets Initiative Advisory Board, served as an advisor to the Obama campaign on urban policy, and completed a two-year term on the US DHS Data Privacy Advisory Committee. He has also served as an expert witness before federal court on FCRA matters.Turner received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in Political Economy, and a B.A. in economics from Miami University. Turner is an affiliate scholar at the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and a Fellow at the Ashoka Foundation.
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