About

k-ID is the compliance infrastructure layer for the age-adaptive internet. The company provides age assurance, regulatory intelligence and compliance technology to gaming, social media, consumer AI and other platforms with user-generated content, helping operators maintain compliance across more than 200 jurisdictions worldwide.

I joined before the company came out of stealth and helped launch it at GDC in March 2024. Later that year k-ID raised a $45 million Series A led by Andreessen Horowitz and Lightspeed, and was named a World Economic Forum Technology Pioneer.

I lead corporate affairs globally and run the EMEA business. I also support the OpenAge Initiative, an open standard for privacy-preserving, reusable age credentials.

Alongside the day job I design and run my own AI systems. I build production tools that do real work every day, covering research, drafting, project tracking and the operational grind that used to eat my week.

AI adoption is not just about tooling. It is also about judgement: knowing what AI can and cannot be trusted with, which comes from building and operating with it. That is what I bring to conversations about how it should be adopted and governed, and it is why I am confident telling audiences which parts of this are real and which are not.

That fluency opens up new opportunities. I work with content and IP owners on what AI now makes possible, bringing new life to the IP they already have and shaping what they create next.

I founded Delany & Co in 2013 and built it over eleven years into an international advisory practice working across games, social media, the sharing economy, dating, enterprise and entertainment. Clients included Uber, Airbnb, Roblox, Supercell, Rovio and Zynga.

The model was designed to scale: a tight core team with deep sector expertise, local policy specialists brought in per campaign, and regulatory intelligence that could serve several clients across several markets at once. From 2018 I narrowed the focus to interactive entertainment, or video games, where rules written for social media were about to catch thousands of companies that had not seen them coming. I sold the firm in 2024 to join k-ID.

Through the firm I founded and ran the International Social Games Association from 2013, chaired the European Collaborative Economy Forum from 2015 to 2018, and founded Mobile Games Intelligence in 2020. I testified before regulators in the US, UK, EU and Australia.

Three years across child safety, privacy, competition and content regulation for EMEA. I was inside for the Irish Data Protection Commissioner's audit and the opening of what became a decade of European privacy litigation. I ran the UK launch of real-money gaming on the platform, and launched a blood donation programme across Europe.

Google's first policy hire in Brussels. I worked primarily on safety and content issues first, then moved to London to run UK policy and manage relationships across the UK regulators. I defended and then negotiated the resolution to the Street View WiFi collection issue, and lobbied on the transposition of the Audiovisual Media Services Directive across Europe.

In 2009 I negotiated and signed the European Safer Social Networking Principles with Commissioner Viviane Reding, a voluntary code of platform commitments to protect younger users.

I started at Universiteit Maastricht in 2001, reading European Studies, and took a job in Brussels with Policy Action while I was still studying: monitoring parliamentary committees and explaining to companies like Amazon and Microsoft why directives on e-commerce and audiovisual media might one day matter to them.

Policy Action ran EDiMA, the European trade body representing Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft and Yahoo, and after I graduated I was made its Director. I drafted and drove the amendments to the Audiovisual Media Services Directive that kept streaming platforms from being regulated as broadcasters. That is the regulatory space online video grew up in.