VenueConnect 2019

Mary Haskett
Founder & CEO
Blink Identity


Mary Haskett is the CEO and co-founder of Blink Identity, a venture backed company based in Austin, Texas that has developed face recognition products that can identify people at a full walking speed and in any lighting condition. Haskett drives the business strategy and marketing direction, as well as manages the day-to-day operations of the company. Her first startup was a skydiving school she got involved with when she was a college student. The skydiving school was bootstrapped into a profitable business that owned multiple airplanes, taught thousands of students how to skydive and hosted skydiving competitions broadcast on ESPN. Haskett next founded a training company that built dozens of online courses for Fortune 500 companies. After that company was acquired by a defense contractor, she stayed on as a VP to lead biometric systems development in the US and overseas. She deployed frequently to Iraq and Afghanistan, and was responsible for deploying the Afghanistan National biometric database. Haskett holds a M.Ed. in Educational Technology from Texas A&M University and a B.S. in Applied Mathematics awarded by the University of Texas at Dallas.

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