Terron Sims II '00 Joins Merit as Executive Director of Military & Veterans Affairs

Merit International, Inc., the leading digital verified identity company, announced today that Terron Sims II '00 has joined the organization to lead initiatives relating to veterans and military families. Sims will serve as the newly appointed Executive Director of Military & Veterans Affairs. “Working with Merit means having the opportunity to create tangible solutions to some of the key policy issues for which my colleagues and I have written and advocated over the years.” Sims brings decades of expertise to the role. A fourth-generation veteran, he graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point before serving five years in the US Army. Sims brings with him three decades of national-level military and government policy-writing experience to Merit, as the company expands the scope of its work advocating for military families. Sims was on hand for the launch of the Alliance for States Providing Interoperable REciprocity (ASPIRE) and will continue to lead strategic efforts to bring states into the alliance. Sims will also help spearhead the newly formed Military Affairs Advisory Group within Merit, which seeks to connect the company’s significant number of veterans among its workforce, and develop future military-adjacent initiatives based on shared experiences. Read more.