Safeguard Session w Abhay Antony

​Most marketplaces still treat identity verification as a single decision.

​You’re either verified. Or you’re not.

​Abhay Antony believes that model no longer works.

​Abhay is Senior Director of Trust & Safety at Thumbtack, with prior experience leading identity and safety programs at Uber and Meta. For more than 14 years, he’s built systems at the intersection of product, policy, and operational scale. 

​Protecting users without slowing marketplaces down.

​Today, his focus is on layered, dynamic approaches to identity and onboarding. 

​Different users. Different risk. Different verification paths.

​In this live Safeguard Session, Abhay joins Mitul Parmar to unpack how marketplaces move beyond one-size-fits-all verification, and what that shift unlocks for fraud, identity, and trust teams.

​We’ll explore:

​• Designing layered identity and onboarding models
• Reducing friction without compromising safety
• Lessons from Uber and Thumbtack on scaling identity programs
• Where AI helps, and where humans still matter

​Friday, January 23, 2026 | 1:30 PM ET

​Conversations like this don’t happen often. Join Abhay Antony as he shares how identity systems change when marketplaces move from growth to serious scale.

​Register for the next Safeguard Session.