Blake Hall

Blake Hall is the Co-Founder and CEO of ID.me, a digital wallet used by more than 161 million users to stay safe and simplify their online transactions. Government agencies and private organizations trust ID.me to secure high-risk programs and deliver valuable services through digital channels. ID.me’s portable login allows verified data to move with people so Americans can use a single login to prove their identity and easily access hundreds of federal, state, and private sector websites. In keeping with military tradition, ID.me is committed to “No Identity Left Behind."

Blake has been named CEO of the Year by One World Identity (2019), received Vanderbilt University's Young Alumni Achievement award (2020), and was recognized by Ernst & Young as Entrepreneur of the Year for the Mid-Atlantic region (2022).

In 2025, he was named an inaugural Fellow at the Vanderbilt University Institute of National Security. He is an inventor on eleven patents related to authentication and identity. Prior to ID.me, Blake led a reconnaissance platoon in Iraq on over 450 combat patrols without sustaining any casualties. He was awarded two Bronze Stars — one for heroism stopping an Al-Qaida assault on a Combat Support Hospital in Mosul, and a second for exceptional performance hunting high-value targets.

He is a graduate of the Army's Ranger School and Airborne School, earned a BS magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.