Karla McKenna is an international standards specialist in the area of financial services. Ms. McKenna is Managing Director, GLEIF Americas, as well as Head of Standards for the Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation. Ms. McKenna led the development of the digital use of the LEI, concentrating on the implementation of the verifiable LEI (vLEI), and also is responsible for facilitating the development and implementation of GLEIF standards and leveraging international standards to maximize data quality and the operational integrity of the Global LEI System. 

Ms. McKenna chaired the International Organization for Standardization Technical Committee 68 (ISO/TC 68), Financial services, from 2006 to 2018 and continues ISO work in the areas of standards interoperability and regulatory use of international standards as co-convenor of the TC 68 Standards Advisory Group.

Ms. McKenna is a member of the inaugural Boards of the Eurofiling Foundation and the KERI Foundation, the Steering Committee of Trust over IP and the transitional Board of the Ayra Foundation, is Immediate Past Chair of the Securities Market Practice Group (SMPG) and also has served on the Boards of XBRL International, the International Securities Association for Institutional Trade Communication (ISITC) and the Accredited Standards Committee X9 (ASC X9).