Locking up the key

Identity protection is a huge and ever growing need in the knowledge economy. Ki, which was initially conceived as a hardware authentication token for password storage by its founders Priscilla Elora Sharuk and Antoine Jebara, is a Lebanese solution for identity protection. Executive caught up with Sharuk to see how the startup has progressed since we last met. E   When we met to evaluate Ki for the 2014 entrepreneurship list, you were about to travel to Helsinki for an accelerator program called Startup Sauna and were a bit worried about the Nordic temperatures there. How was your experience as a budding Lebanese entrepreneur there and what has happened since? PES: I survived the cold and the program was wonderful. It is one thing to gain credibility here and an entirely different thing to get it abroad, especially when it comes to a field like identity protection. Seeing the concept