As chief technical officer of advanced strategies and policy, Craig Mundie reports to Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates and works with him on developing a comprehensive set of technical, business and policy strategies for Microsoft Corp. Mundie’s role includes coordination of aspects of these strategies where their implementation spans multiple Microsoft product groups. Mundie focuses on Internet-scale platform architectures, the definition of consumer computing experiences as part of the Microsoft® .NET initiatives, and technical and policy issues surrounding critical infrastructure protection, intellectual property and Trustworthy Computing.

Prior to this role, Mundie was senior vice president of Advanced Strategies. Mundie joined Microsoft in 1992 to create and run the Consumer Platforms Division, which he formed to develop the company’s non-PC platform and service offerings. These included the Windows® CE operating system as well as software for the Handheld, Pocket and Auto PCs and early cellular telephony products. Mundie also started Microsoft’s digital TV efforts and acquired and managed the WebTV Networks, Inc., subsidiary.

As part of his current role, Mundie is involved in policy-related activities encompassing security, privacy, encryption and telecom regulation. He also works with government and business leaders in Washington, D.C., to address these issues. In August 2000, President Clinton named Mundie to the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee. The committee was formed in 1982 to advise the White House on issues affecting the security of the nation’s telecommunications infrastructure. In 2000, the White House expanded the group of top industry executives to include key companies involved in computer software and data communications, in recognition of the fact that the Internet has made military and civil infrastructures susceptible to both accidental and intentional disruption. In February 2002, Mundie became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. The council is a nonpartisan membership organization, research center and publisher dedicated to increasing America’s understanding of the world and contributing ideas to U.S. foreign policy. In April 2002, Mundie became a member of the Task Force on National Security in the Information Age. The task force’s main project is to develop a strategy for using new technologies and information to address new security challenges.

Mundie also serves as a trustee of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle and is on the advisory board of the College of Computing at the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech).

Before coming to Microsoft, Mundie was a co-founder and CEO of Alliant Computer Systems Corp., a company that developed massively parallel supercomputers. Before Alliant, Mundie worked at Data General Corp. Hired in 1972 as a software developer, he wrote the first commercial disk operating system for the Data General NOVA. He also managed the development of database management software, operating systems and compiler software. Just before leaving Data General, Mundie was director of its advanced development facility in Research Triangle Park, N.C.

Mundie attended the Georgia Tech. He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering and a master’s degree in information theory and computer science.

Esther Dyson has devoted her life to discovering the inevitable and promoting the possible. As an active investor and commentator, she focuses on emerging technologies and business models (peer-to-peer, artificial intelligence, the Internet, wireless applications), emerging markets (Eastern Europe) and emerging companies (see below). In 1994, she had already explored the impact of the Net on intellectual property (among other things, why Bill Gates now plans to offer software as an online service). In 1997, she wrote a book on the impact of the Net on individuals' lives, Release 2.0: A design for living in the digital age. She remains an active player in discussions and policy-making concerning the Internet and society.

Dyson is also chairman of EDventure Holdings (www.edventure.com), which publishes the influential monthly technology-industry newsletter, Release 1.0, and sponsors two of the industry's premier annual conferences, PC (Platforms for Communication) Forum in the US (March 24 to 27, 2002) and EDventure's High-Tech Forum in Europe (October 2002). Dyson also writes a fortnightly column for the New York Times syndicate (Release 3.0), which also appears in EDventure's online newsletter, The conversation continues.

Anthony E. (Tony) Scott is the Chief Technology Officer for GM's Information Systems and Services (IS&S) organization. He joined GM September 1, 1999.

Scott is responsible for defining the information technology computing and telecommunications architecture and standards across all of GM's business globally. He provides leadership in the areas of IT architecture and standards, and emerging technology. His work at GM has included the development of GM’s employee portal (a collaboration between GM, Daimler-Chrysler, AOL, Sun Microsystems, and Workscape), development of GM’s wireless implementation strategy, and directing GM’s involvement in external IT standards bodies and technology consortium organizations. He was named “CTO of the Year – Manufacturing Sector” by Infoworld Magazine in 2001, and is a regular panelist and speaker at a variety of information technology events and seminars.

He joined GM from Bristol-Myers Squibb where he was Vice President, Information Management. Scott also held positions as a Senior Director with Price Waterhouse; Vice President of Engineering with Uniteq Application Systems; and Manager, Worldwide Information Resources with Sun Microsystems.

Scott reports directly to GM Group Vice President and Chief Information Officer Ralph Szygenda. He holds a bachelor's degree in information systems management from the University of San Francisco and a juris doctorate from Santa Clara University.

Phillip J. Windley is Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the State of Utah, serving on the Governor's Cabinet and as a member of his Senior Staff. In this capacity he is responsible for effective use of all IT resources in the state and advises the Governor on technology issues.Prior to his appointment as CIO, Dr. Windley served as Vice President for Product Development and Operations at Excite@Home, managing a team of engineers and technicians developing large scale Internet and e-commerce applications. Prior to joining Excite@Home, Dr. Windley served for two years as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of iMALL, Inc. an early leader in electronic commerce. Dr. Windley has been a professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University and the University of Idaho. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of California at Davis in 1990.

David Temoshok is the Director for Identity Policy and Management for the Office of Government-wide Policy of the General Services Administration. In this capacity, David is responsible for the development and deployment of policies and services to enable government-wide electronic transactions with citizens, businesses, and governments. David serves as the Federal PKI Policy Management Authority for the Federal ACES Program that provides PKI services across the Federal Government. David also serves on the Federal PKI Policy Authority, which administers the Federal Bridge Certification Authority to provide cross-certification PKI services across government.

Prior to this appointment, David served as the Inter-Agency Director for the Access America Program. This program provides public access to a wide range of government services electronically on a nationwide basis. David also served as Chairman of the Federal Smart Card Task Force to provide leadership and coordination for the development and implementation of federal smart card systems through the government-wide Common Access ID Card Program. In December 1993 David was appointed to serve as the Director for Systems Design and Development for the Federal Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) Task Force. The Federal EBT Task Force directed the national implementation of systems to deliver both federal and state government benefits electronically on a nationwide basis. EBT systems are currently in operation in over 45 states.

In addition, David has served as the USDA Director of Grants Management and numerous other managerial and financial management positions in public administration.

Doc Searls is a writer and speaker on topics that arise where technology and business meet. He is the Senior Editor of Linux Journal, one of the world's leading technology monthlies, with a paid circulation of over 100,000. He is also co-author of The Cluetrain Manifesto: The End of Business as Usual, a New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, Borders Books and Amazon.com bestseller. (It was Amazon's #1 sales & marketing bestseller for thirteen months and sells around the world in nine languages.). Doc also writes the Doc Searls Weblog. J.D. Lasica of Annenberg's Online Journalism Review calls Doc "one of the deep thinkers in the blog movement." Doc's blog has over 60,000 readers per month, and comes out on top when you look up "weblog" on Google.

Martha Rogers, Ph.D. is an expert in the rapidly evolving fields of customer-focused strategy, customer relationships and increasing demand chain, and managing CRM and DCM ROI, and customer equity. With Don Peppers, she has co-authored five books on these subjects: The first, The One to One Future (Currency/Doubleday 1993), was named by Inc. magazine’s editor, George Gendron, as “one of the two or three most important business books of all time.” The second, Enterprise One to One, received a top 5-star rating from the Wall Street Journal. All five have been international best sellers, including the latest book, One to One B2B, which made the NY Times Business Best Seller list within a month of its May 2001 publication. The books have sold over a million copies and appear in a total of 14 languages.

Dr. Rogers is a Partner of Peppers and Rogers Group, a customer-focused strategy consulting firm based in Norwalk, CT, with 15 offices around the world. Clients include AT&T, American Skandia, Boise Cascade Office Products, Convergys, E*Trade, Ford Motor Company, Unilever, First USA Bank, KPMG, Banco Santander (South America), Winterthur (Switzerland), NTT (Japan). Hewlett Packard has built over 100 "1to1 campfires" (pilot programs) around the world, all based on 1to1 principles. At Peppers and Rogers Group, she has led several large subscription-based research studies focusing on particular aspects of CRM, such as the direct-to-consumer delivery channel. She serves on the Advisory Boards of several CRM-based companies. Dr. Rogers began her professional career as a copywriter and advertising executive, and earned her Ph.D. at the University of Tennessee as a Bickel fellow.

As an Adjunct Professor at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, Dr. Rogers is helping to spearhead the CRM coursework at the MBA level. She is also the co-director of the Teradata Center for Customer Relationship Management at Duke University. She is widely published in academic and trade journals, including Journal of Advertising Research, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Applied Psychology and many others. She has been named International Sales and Marketing Executives Educator of the Year. With Don Peppers, she has been named Direct Marketer of the Year by DM Days New York, named to the World Technology Network, and was named by Business 2.0 as one of the nineteen most important business Gurus of all time in October of 2001. She also serves on the Advisory Board of the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University.

One of the IT industry's most respected analysts and consultants, Jamie Lewis has studied the technologies surrounding identity and access management for more than 15 years. Under Lewis' leadership, Burton Group has become the leading analyst and consulting firm in the identity and access management market. At Burton, Lewis is instrumental in defining the concepts relevant to enterprise directories, meta-directories, access management systems, provisioning, and other essential components of the emerging identity and access management infrastructure. With Lewis' reliable guidance, Burton continues to lead the evolution of these core technologies to support networked business models. Prominent users and vendors turn to Lewis for his keen insights into the evolution of these technologies and the markets that drive their development.

Lark Allen is Executive Vice President of Corporate Development at Wave Systems Corp. Mr. Allen is responsible for the technology guidance for Wave's trusted client architecture and developing strategic relationships with a broad range of platform, technology, network, content, security and services companies who can benefit from trusted functions in user devices at the edge of the network.

Prior to joining Wave, Mr. Allen was employed for 28 years with the IBM Corporation, where he last served as Director of Worldwide Market Strategy and Marketing Support for IBM's Networking Divisions. Mr. Allen's responsibilities included brand strategy, channel marketing, product planning, and market research for a broad range of networking products. His career included a number of executive level management positions in marketing, consulting and services, sales and product development, both domestically and in worldwide positions.

Mr. Allen holds a Master of Science in Industrial Administration from Purdue University where he was a DuPont Fellow as well as a Krannert Scholar. He also holds a Bachelor of Science in Physics from Brigham Young University. Currently residing in Raleigh, North Carolina, Mr. Allen has 5 children and actively participates in skiing, backpacking, astronomy, and flower gardening.

Scott Anderson is a product manager for the RSA Keon digital certificate management software products. Scott has a degree in Computer Engineering and 8 years of industry experience in a variety of technical and management positions with the past 4 years spent helping to create industry leading digital certificate management solutions.

Brian Arbogast is Vice President of the .NET Core Services Platform in Microsoft’s Services Platform Division. His teams are responsible for delivering the advanced authentication technology of .NET Passport to partners, developers and users, as well as the internal provisioning and billing systems for all of Microsoft’s online services. He has over twelve years of experience in leading teams that deliver innovative software solutions.

Brian joined Microsoft in 1986 as a software developer. He was a technical lead on Access 1.0, and after shipping that product and planning Access 2.0 he took a sabbatical and traveled extensively. He returned to Microsoft 15 months later as the Group Manager for Access and in 1996 built and led the Visual InterDev Product Unit. After shipping Visual InterDev 1.0 he became a General Manager, gaining responsibilities for Visual Studio and Active Scripting in 1997, Visual Basic for Applications (VBA) and Microsoft Office Developer in 1998, and Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) in 1999. He was promoted to Vice President in early 2000 and has been helping drive Microsoft’s transition to software as a service ever since.

Before joining Microsoft, Brian had internships at IBM, Phillips Information Systems, and Systemhouse Graphics. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from the University of Waterloo.

Recognized as an unparalleled visionary and strategist, Dr. Atick has been at the forefront of some of technology’s most significant breakthroughs over the last fifteen years.

After co-founding Visionics in 1994, a private company and the leading developer of facial recognition technology worldwide, Dr. Atick steered the company through a successful merger with Digital Biometrics, a public company and the leader in biometric systems engineering and connectivity. Only one year later, he led the merger of Visionics with Identix, the recognized global leader in fingerprint identification to create the Identix company that we know today.

Before his work with Identix, Dr. Atick led the Computational Neuroscience Laboratory at Rockefeller University and the Neural Cybernetics Group at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, as they made a series of noteworthy achievements in understanding how the human brain processes information. From there, Dr. Atick co-founded and managed two other companies that focused on technology transfer and development.

Over the years, Dr. Atick has served as a technical advisor to many high-tech enterprises and organizations, including NATO. He is a highly sought after speaker at high level industry conferences and a frequent commentator in the media. He has also been asked to testify several times before congressional committees. In January 2000 and then again in November 2001, Dr. Atick was recognized by MIT Technology Review and Business Week Magazine respectively, as an innovator at the forefront of the high-tech security field of biometrics as well as someone who exemplifies its potential and promise.

Dr. Atick is a founding member of the International Biometrics Industry Association, a trade association dedicated to supporting and advancing the collective international interests of the biometric industry as a whole.

He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematical Physics from Stanford University.

Ram has over 12 years experience in smart cards and is a regular contributor to smart card conferences and workshops worldwide. After the completion of his MSc at Cambridge, he co-founded General Information Systems (GIS) in the UK, where as Managing Director, he led a team responsible for all aspects of smart card technology including chip design, operating systems, reader/writers and applications for customers such as OKI and Mondex. In 1997, he co-founded Applied Card Technologies Limited (ACT) as a smart card consultancy and solutions provider for all aspects of Electronic Commerce. Whilst at ACT, he acted as smart card advisor to major corporations such as Olympus and Oracle as well as UK government departments such as the Department of Social Security and the Foreign Office. In 2000 he became Director of Consultancy at ActivCard Inc, which is recognized as the authority in identity management and strong authentication solutions. Presently, Ram directs the Global Product and Solutions Group for vertical sectors including enterprise, government, healthcare, and financial service environments worldwide.

Doug Bayer is Director, Windows Security at Microsoft. He is responsible for delivering the core security functionality for the Windows platform and for Windows-based devices. Doug joined Microsoft in 1994 as part of the MSN service with responsibility for the delivery of Internet-based servers and services. He made significant contributions to Microsoft products such as Windows 2000, Windows XP, Site Server, Microsoft Commercial Internet Server (MCIS) and other systems that Microsoft customers rely on every day. Prior to joining Microsoft, Bayer served as Director of Client/Server Development at Dun & Bradstreet Software, Director of Data Access Development at Lotus Development Corp and Department Head at AT&T Bell Laboratories. Bayer graduated Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Knox college with a B.A. in Physics. He then earned a PhD. in Experimental Nuclear Physics from Michigan State University. Doug enjoys spending his free time in the outdoors swimming, running, skiing, gardening and roller blading. On rainy days, he enjoys working with computers.

John D. Beatty is Sun's Lead Architect for the Liberty Alliance Project. He was an author and editor for the Liberty v1.0 specifications. John's background is in distributed systems.

Phil Becker is the Editor-in-Chief of Digital ID World and Managing Partner of Digital Identity World, LLC. Phil has a BSEE from Vanderbilt University and has been in the computer industry since 1967. His signature is on both the Moon and Mars, for computer communications projects he built for the Apollo and Viking missions. Phil has created technology to link computers in both the pre-Internet and Internet eras and as an entrepreneur built and took public two companies in the computer communications and Internet spaces. In 1992 he founded ISPCON and grew it to be the premiere Internet Service Provider Trade Show. Phil is a technical best selling author and speaker about the Internet, digital identity, and their impact on business and society.

Carol is a founding partner of Glenbrook Partners. Her background has been in product development, marketing and strategy for physical world and Internet-based financial services companies. She has worked in both wholesale and retail banking in the U.S. and internationally.

Carol has had management roles in corporate cash management, EDI, new monetary system development, payment security and authentication, credit cards, smart cards, and securities processing.

Most recently, Carol was a Managing Director of the Global Institutional Services division of Deutsche Bank (previously Bankers Trust), where she oversaw marketing, client online services, and Internet development. During this period, she was involved in the formation of Identrus, LLC.

At Visa International, Carol led a group doing the early work on authentication for the use of credit cards on the Internet, and a group that pioneered database marketing and related consumer privacy issues. Carol also led the opening and management of a Visa European product development office based in Paris where a series of electronic commerce and chip card projects innovated in bringing European banks on-line.

Earlier, Carol spent twelve years at Citibank, holding a series of management positions in corporate lending, wholesale cash management, and global strategy. During her tenure at Citibank, Carol developed a new ACH payments system for the bank, started the bank's early work in EDI payments, and led the development of a patent for an electronic factoring process.

Billa Bhandari is the founder, Chairman and CEO of Akoura Biometrics. His background includes over fifteen years of experience in the financial industry and four years in consulting services. Mr. Bhandari has a proven track record in consulting with banking expertise in foreign exchange, fixed rate desk, swaps, arbitrage, mortgage-backed securities, and branch operations in the United States, Europe, and South America.

Mr. Bhandari has managed trading room technology at several multinational banks including Chase, Credit Lyonnais, State Street Bank, and Putnam Investments. He has implemented several state of the art trading floors both in USA and Europe. Before starting Akoura Biometrics, Mr. Bhandari had started Akoura Corporation and provided best practice consulting services to clients like GTE, SUN, HP, Intel, CableTron, Credit Lyonnais, ThinQ, etc. and had acquired extensive experience in large-scale systems integration and project management.

Mr. Bhandari holds an undergraduate degree in Math and an MBA in Finance & Information Systems.

Brad Brunell is the director of marketing and business development for the Windows Trusted Platform Technologies (WTPT) at Microsoft. Brad manages business strategy, marketing, product planning and strategic relationships for WTPT.

Prior to his work with WTPT, Brad managed business development for Core Audio/Video technologies within the Windows platform. Previous responsibilities during his 11 years at Microsoft include: managing Web development and marketing teams and the launch and management of Microsoft TV.

Before joining Microsoft, Brad owned a marketing company in Los Angeles that worked with advertising agencies, entertainment companies, and financial services firms.

Michael is the former Chief of Staff of the Department Health and Human Services (1989 – 1992). He joined APM, now CSC Global Healthcare, in October of 1995. Prior to joining the firm, he was Vice President and Head of the West Coast office of the public policy oriented health care consulting firm of Lewin-VHI (currently The Lewin Group). In his practice at Lewin, he assisted hospitals, health care systems, and government programs develop new visions and strategies in line with the rapidly changing structure of the health care industry.

His primary focus at CSC Healthcare includes strategy, academic medical centers, and development of the Web/IT strategy practice in the Western Region.

• Before joining Lewin-VHI, he was the Hayase Research Fellow at the Asia/Pacific Research Center at Stanford University focusing on U.S./Japan comparative health care policies. At the Center, he wrote an assessment of health care reform in the U.S. and edited a book on the health care reform debate here, both for publication in Japan. He resided in Japan from 1992 to 1993 as a Leadership Fellow of the Japan Society of New York. While in Japan, he was a Visiting Research Fellow at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto. His work centered on the impact of Japanese political and cultural traditions on its health care system and on the formulation and implementation of Japanese public policy. While in Japan, He authored an assessment of the relevance of the Japanese health care system to the health reform debate in the United States.
• He is the former Chief of Staff of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, which was, during his tenure, the largest of the Executive departments, having a budget of over $625 billion and approximately 120,000 employees. He was the principal policy advisor to Secretary Louis W. Sullivan, MD on social services, Department management, and on health policy—including the Bush Administration’s health care reform plan and issues involving Medicare, Medicaid, the Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and the Centers for Disease Control. He also had responsibility for overall operation of the Department and was the Secretary’s liaison to the White House.
• He joined the Department of Health and Human Services after serving as the partner responsible for the international trade practice of a Washington D.C., law firm. From 1980 to 1982, he was a member of the U.S. International Trade Commission and served as Vice Chairman.
• He has a Juris Doctor degree from Harvard Law School and received his BA degree from Princeton University. He is on the Board of Directors of the California Pacific Medical Center, San Francisco, and The Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta.

JC Cannon is a Privacy Manager in the Corporate Privacy Group at Microsoft. His main job is to work with product groups on privacy compliance. He moved to the group from the Active Directory team where he worked as a program manager for two and a half years. Prior to coming to Microsoft in 1998 he spent ten years as a software consultant helping companies integrate Microsoft technologies.

Bernard (Bernie) Cowens, VP of security services, Rainbow Technologies, is known for his ability to translate complex technology into business solutions. Cowens leads Rainbow's professional services in helping Fortune-class clients transition their business processes to the Internet while protecting their data.

Cowens, CISSP, is a security expert with over 15 years experience in designing, developing, managing and protecting complex and sensitive information systems and networks. He has extensive experience managing and securing high-availability, multi site military and civilian data centers. His areas of expertise include enterprise security and risk assessments, security architecture and design, intrusion detection, incident response, forensics, PKI issues, electronic commerce, ASP/HSP issues relating to security, security policy development and implementation, people security, digital signatures and developing functional requirements from federal mandates (i.e., HIPAA, GLB, Privacy Act). A former military officer, Cowens has led high-level industry and government teams and served as a member of, and as an advisor to, national-level panels charged with analyzing network and information system threats, assessing associated risks, and recommending both technical and nontechnical risk mitigation policies and procedures. He holds a master's degree in Management Information Systems along with undergraduate degrees and certificates in data processing and systems management from the University of Maryland.

As Vice President of Corporate Technology Strategy, Mahi de Silva is focused on developing new initiatives leveraging VeriSign's broad portfolio of technology assets and infrastructure. In this new role, Mr. de Silva in involved in a building strategic technology relationships for VeriSign. Mr. de Silva joined VeriSign in February of 1996. In prior positions, he worked as VeriSign's vice president of Applied Trust Services and Vice President of Engineering. As part of the startup management team at VeriSign, Mr. de Silva was instrumental in building a strong team to deliver technology and products for VeriSign's highly successful Trust Services business. Mr. de Silva joined VeriSign with over 12 years of experience in engineering positions for high-technology companies. Before joining VeriSign, he worked at Taligent Inc., a joint venture between Apple Computer, International Business Machines and Hewlett Packard. Prior to that, he held various engineering leadership positions at Apple Computer and NCR Corporation. Mr. de Silva serves on the board of directors of PreNet Corporation and contributes in an advisory capacity at several privately held high technology companies.

Mike Dusche is the Program Manager, for authentication technologies at Microsoft Passport. He has been in this position since July, 2001, and his responsibilities include adding support for digital certificates and federating identity and authentication services in Passport. Prior to Passport, Mike was the Program Manager for Smart Cards after having been the Industry Manager for Financial Services at Microsoft. He has served on the Corporate Advisory Board of the National Bankers Association as well as various other industry consortia and standards bodies. He has been a frequent speaker at industry seminars and trade shows and has been published in many of the major trade journals.

Andrew Eliopoulos is Senior Director of Product Marketing, Identity Management Solutions for Sun ONE Software, Sun Microsystems. Sun ONE is dedicated to developing open Internet software solutions to Fortune 1000 enterprises worldwide. Prior to his current role, Andrew was Director of Product Marketing, Financial Services for Sun ONE and previous to that he was Senior Business Development Manager at CyberCash, an industry leader in electronic payments. His responsibilities included all strategic partnerships and business development. He has more than a decade of experience in product marketing, business development and management in a diverse array of industries in the high technology marketplace. He has extensive experience in the successful development of regional business units and has experience with clients including many Fortune 500 companies. His responsibilities have included developing and managing multi-million dollar remarketing programs for PC manufacturers including Apple, AST, Compaq, HP, IBM and Packard Bell. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with honors in Physiology from the University of California, Berkeley and a Masters of Business Administration degree with honors from Golden Gate University.

Joe Ellsworth has over 20 year’s software experience. For the last several years, he has been architecting and implementing advanced identity management solutions. In this area his focus has been on complex multi-organizational profiles including high volume, fine grained authorization and provisioning.

Mr. Ellsworth most recently applied advanced XML technologies resulting from his research and professional experiences to commercialize an industry leading security and identity management solution. This solution (Integrated Customer Care) has been successfully deployed by Hewlett-Packard within its OpenView division.

Prior to founding Coherity, Joe managed the solution sector of E-Speak operation at Hewlett-Packard. He drove the evolution for the E-Speak Broker/Market Maker (delivered to Helsinki Telephone Corporation in Finland). Before managing the E-Speak group, Joe worked in HP’s IT organization where he led the development and deployment of Enterprise Solutions Now (ESN), HP’s Enterprise Portal technology. In addition, he led the development efforts for the Quote & Order Assistant (QOA) and Watson on the Web (WOW).

Joe is dedicated to the Open Source community, including conceiving and initiating the HP/O’Reilly SourceXChange partnership, now part of collab.net.

Gordon Eubanks, who joined Oblix in April 1999 as president and chief executive officer, is responsible for the strategic direction and overall management of the company. A highly regarded technology industry veteran and executive, Eubanks brings the leadership and vision to Oblix to continually generate growth quarter after quarter while attracting the brightest managers and engineering talent to the company. Under his guidance, Oblix was named among the Hot 100 Companies of 2000 by Upside and joined the list of 21st Century Infrastructure Companies for 2000 by PC Week.

Prior to Oblix, Eubanks spent 15 years at Symantec Corporation where he was president and chief executive officer. At Symantec, he was instrumental in turning the company into a world-class leader in utility software for businesses and personal computing through unmatched emphasis on customer care, aggressive marketing, collaborative partnerships, and strategic acquisitions. Previously, Eubanks founded C&E Software, which eventually merged with Symantec in 1984, and served as a top executive at Digital Research Inc., where he was responsible for the development and marketing of all commercial system software products.

A former commissioned officer in the United States Navy’s Nuclear Submarine Force, Eubanks holds a B.S. in electrical engineering from Oklahoma State University and M.S. in computer science from the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. He is a member of the board of directors of Icarian, Genuity, and Blue Ocean Software. An active member of several trade associations, he is also past chairman and president of the Software Publishers Association.

Kevin Farrell is the Director for Speaker Verification Development at SpeechWorks. He was one of the founders and inventors of the SpeakEZ speaker verification technology recently acquired by SpeechWorks. Most of his career has been dedicated to researching, developing, and commercializing speaker verification technology. Prior to SpeakEZ he had worked at Dictaphone and AT&T in other topics within speech processing. He received his Ph.D. from Rutgers University in 1993 where his graduate studies focused on pattern recognition.

Bret Fausett is a partner at the law firm of Hancock, Rothert & Bunshoft, LLP, resident in the firm's Los Angeles office. With a practice focused on Internet and technology law, Fausett has worked with some of the country's largest corporations in building and maintaining their Internet infrastructure and web presence. He also counsels companies on Internet liabilities, risks, privacy issues, and the new and evolving legislation impacting the way companies do business online. Fausett writes the "Legal Code" column each month for New Architect magazine.

Since its first meeting in November, 1998, Fausett has been a frequent participant in and commentator on the activities of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (“ICANN”). He has assisted companies, including prospective domain name registries and registrars, in working through the ICANN bidding and accreditation processes, and he maintains the popular “icann.blog,” with running news and commentary on the organization's activities.

Mr. Field-Elliot has been developing software in the telecommunications arena since 1989. In that time, Bryan has served as CTO and chief architect for three companies, all focused on client/server platforms, network protocols and security. Mr. Field-Elliot was a co-founder and the former CTO of Durand Communications, Inc. which he started with Andre Durand in 1991.

Frank Fitzsimmons joined Iridian Technologies as Chief Operating Officer in early 2001, adding years of global strategy, finance and product management experience to the company's management mix. He came to Iridian from Dun & Bradstreet, the $1.2 billion business information services company, where he capped a 13-year career as senior vice president for global product development. He is founding chairman of the Electronic Commerce Code Management Association, the nonprofit entity created to manage the SPSC, and he serves as a director on the board of ICANN, the nonprofit charged with administering the Internet's domain name system.

Frank holds an MBA in Finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Business, along with a BS in Accounting from Ithaca College.

A Principal in Deloitte Security Services - based out of Ann Arbor, Michigan, Mark Ford is a seasoned professional with over fifteen years of hands-on experience designing and implementing enterprise security systems. In recent years, Mark has led the development of an integration consulting practice focused on delivering Enterprise Security and Identity Management solutions. His experience with implementing identity management and single sign-on solutions is extensive. Also responsible for initiating and growing a strong relationship with IBM/Tivoli around their security and identity management products, Mark has worked to build a world class integration team with deep understanding and knowledge of these products. As a specialist in information security and identity management, Mark was one of the co-developers of Deloitte’s Identity Management practice. He, working in close concert with his partners, have developed a unique capability to deliver identity management services globally. Mark has led clients through the process of developing an identity centric management models which have included key elements of identity management such as:

• Enterprise Directory Services
• Web single sign-on
• User provisioning
• Role-based access control
• User self-service
• Delegated administration

Richard D. Forman is Chairman, President and CEO of Register.com, Inc. Prior to co-founding Register.com, Mr. Forman formed Lease on Line Inc., a commercial real estate management firm in New York. Mr. Forman was previously a consultant with Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc. in its New York City and Sydney, Australia offices.

Mr. Forman graduated from The University of Pennsylvania’s Management and Technology Program, where he received a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School, and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Moore School. He also holds an M.S. in Real Estate from New York University. Mr. Forman’s other achievements include winning the prestigious New York City Entrepreneur of The Year award by Ernst & Young in June 2002.

Mark D. Foster is responsible for strategic technology initiatives, standards, program management, and the design, development, and operation of NeuStar's complex network and systems infrastructure. A widely recognized subject matter expert, Mr. Foster pioneered number portability in the industry in 1994-1995 and subsequently led the development of NeuStar's Number Portability Administration Center in 1996. He has over 20 years of entrepreneurial experience in developing innovative solutions to industry problems, with inventions such as a voice-controlled intelligent network service node platform, a new computer language for developing telephone switching systems software, and the first SS7-to-IP signaling gateway (1990).

Over 14 years experience in architecture, engineering, integration and production support of mainframe, client sever and distributed systems in financial services.

Primary distinctions: Founding member of Securities Industry Middleware Council (SIMC), a vertical industry organization representing the securities industry to the IT provider community. Served as council vice president and Security Focus Group chairman. Led project team that included The Open Group, SIMC members, and IT providers to integrate PKI with the DCE implementation of Kerberos. Resulted in RFC 68.4, which outlines a standard protocol specification to accomplish this goal.

Emphases: Security Architecture, PKI Architecture, Privacy, Directories and eBusiness infrastructure

Ian Goldsmith is responsible for defining go-to-market strategy and direction for Critical Path worldwide. He came to Critical Path through the ISOCOR acquisition having joined ISOCOR in September 1997 as Business Manager, Strategic Products, with more than 10 years of experience in messaging and networking technology. He assumed responsibility for Directory Products, and oversaw the specification, design, delivery and launch of the award winning meta-directory product family. Previously he was the Technical Manager, US operations for NEXOR, leading multinational directory and secure-messaging deployments.

For more than six years prior to joining NEXOR, Mr Goldsmith was a Technical Consultant with ICL Information Services Division. He was responsible for X.400, X.500, LDAP and SMTP deployments at major Telecommunications providers around the world.

Mr. Goldsmith holds an MA in Computer Science from Cambridge University, England.

Phil Griffin has been actively involved in developing security and electronic commerce standards for the Financial Services Industry since 1996. He serves as Vice Chair of the ISO TC68/SC2 Security Management and General Banking Operations subcommittee, Convenor of the SC2 Public Key Infrastructure Management working group, and Vice Chair of the X9 Security Applications committee currently revising X9.84, the US national biometric security standard. Mr. Griffin chairs the OASIS XML Common Biometric Format (XCBF) Technical Committee and the OASIS Security Standards Joint Committee (SJC). He is owner of Griffin Consulting and architect of BioloJava, a biometric security tool kit designed for building secure X9.84 and XCBF based applications.

Since founding ActiveState in July 1997, Dick Hardt led the company as CEO from a fledgling start-up to the dominant provider of products and services for open source Internet programming languages. He is responsible for making Perl available on the Microsoft Windows environment.

Dick is a founder of several business ventures, including Vancouver's first online web magazine. He has been active in commercial software development since 1986, when he left UBC to join Consumers Software. There, he ported one of the first LAN email packages, the Network Courier, to Windows 1.03. He subsequently returned to his roots, developing several products combining advanced computing with mechanical engineering. He later joined Paradigm Development, consulting for firms such as Aldus, Adobe, and Microsoft. In 1993, Dick connected Paradigm to the Internet, and later founded hip communications, one of the larger web development and hosting companies in western Canada. While running hip, Dick led the port of Perl 5 to the Windows platform, which resulted in an interest in open source software. After selling hip to a Nasdaq company, he co-founded ActiveState with O'Reilly and Associates.

Dick is a Director of the British Columbia Technology Industries Association. He was chosen by Business in Vancouver for the Top 40 Under 40 Award for 2000. His interests away from the office include snowboarding and auto racing.

Lance Hood oversees the development of digital identity products and services for OneName Corporation. A seasoned executive, he has managed the design and development of distributed enterprise software products for over ten years. Lance was previously the chief operating officer for Health Systems Technologies (HST), where he led development of an Internet-based product to deliver contractual and financial information for managed care directly to the point-of-care. Prior to joining HST, Lance was a general manager at Advanced Technology Laboratories where he led development of an Internet-based medical image management system. He graduated from the University of Puget Sound and earned an MBA from the University of Washington.

Denise is an attorney specializing in appellate and intellectual property litigation. She has handled matters for a wide variety of industries and individuals, including Internet technology and bioscience companies, real estate developers, professional sports teams, manufacturers, distributors, professional service providers, financial institutions and non-profit organizations. Denise is active in her firm's associate training and recruitment programs, and in developing and implementing strategies for its technology infrastructure. She is a member of the American, Orange County and Los Angeles County bar associations, and the appellate law divisions of those groups.

Andrew Jaquith has over ten years of experience in information technology consulting. His professional experience includes systems integration, management consulting, application development and program management, with particular domain expertise in supply chain management and eCommerce strategy. At @stake, he manages strategic client engagements. He also directs the Hoover Project, an initiative within the firm to improve clients' abilities to quantify the risks and returns of security investment. His research has been featured in CIO and InformationWeek.

Prior to @stake, Andrew was a Senior Project Manager at Cambridge Technology Partners. Andrew's formative years were spent at the $600M logistics division of FedEx Corporation, where he was an information technology analyst, project manager, and technology implementer. He possesses a BA from Yale University.

Masha has an extensive background in the Directory Services, Enterprise Portals and Identity Management markets. She is a contributor to the company’s monthly newsletter that analyses leading technologies driving the Internet economy.

Prior to joining the Radicati Group, Inc. Masha conducted market research for international companies in the U.S and Europe. She also has a background in public relations, acquired at Miller/Shandwick Technologies.

Masha received a B.S. with honors in Marketing from Santa Clara University.

Dr. Ken Klingenstein is Project Director for the Internet2 Middleware Initiative and Chief Technologist at the University of Colorado at Boulder. In his Internet2 role, Klingenstein is responsible for disseminating middleware developments, fostering interoperability through standards and workshops, capturing best practices, working with corporations and vendors to create products for use in higher education, and being a liaison to national and international organizations interested in the development of middleware. As Chief Technologist, he continues to provide technical strategic leadership for information technology for the campus where he served as Director of Information Technology Service for fourteen years. Klingenstein has been active in national and regional networking for many years, serving as Chair of the Federal Networking Council Advisory Committee, Board member for CAUSE and CREN, Chair of Westnet and Colorado Supernet, and member of the UCAID Networking Planning and Policy Council, among other roles. Dr. Klingenstein received his Ph.D. in Applied Math from the University of California at Berkeley.

Konstantaras is the Executive Director of the Internet Law & Policy Forum (ILPF), an industry organization that addresses the legal and policy issues raised by doing business on and through the Internet. Konstantaras experience includes working on legal, policy and business issues for products that address denial-of-service attacks (Vice President Marketing and General Counsel, Asta Networks), high security certificate authorities (Vice President Product Team, CertCo) and secure electronic commerce (Vice President and Legal Counsel, Visa International). He has spoken at conferences around the world and worked with governments on issues of cryptography, digital signatures and electronic commerce.

Konstantaras received a Bachelor of Arts from Grinnell College, majoring in Physics and Chemistry and a Juris Doctor from Georgetown University Law Center. Konstantaras experience also includes working for United States Senator Paul Simon and clerking for the Honorable Frank J. Magill, Eighth Circuit, U.S. Court of Appeals.

Steve is considered a high-tech business development and marketing expert. His career includes senior management positions at the Prodigy Services Company, AT&T, Open Systems and Control Data Corporation. He is on the board of School Extra, is a founding board member of the US Internet Association and serves as outside program chair for Pop!Tech, the Camden Technology Conference.

Professionally, Larsen is a Venture Partner at St. Paul Venture Capital, one of the largest early stage venture firms in the US. His primary focus is on helping support and build SPVC's portfolio companies. He splits his time between the company's Minneapolis and Silicon Valley offices. In the recent past, Steve has filled founding executive roles at four start-up companies: Net Perceptions in Minnesota, TicketMaster-Online/CitySearch in California, Unicast and World Merchandise Exchange in New York. As senior vice president of marketing and business development at Net Perceptions, Larsen helped commercialize collaborative filtering and advanced analytics software - technologies that fundamentally changed the way business is done on the Internet. In 1994 Larsen introduced personalization in his book, Competing in CyberSpace: Guidelines for Market-Driven Web Site Planning and Design.

As General Manager, John Manferdelli is responsible for providing the strategic direction for the development of Microsoft's Trusted Platform Technologies. His leadership and experience in the areas of cryptography, emerging technologies, PC architecture and digital rights management are the cornerstone for the development of innovative enterprise technologies encompassing content protection and privacy. Prior to Microsoft, John was the founder, and at various times Vice President of R&D and CEO of Natural Language Incorporated, which was eventually acquired by Microsoft. John has also held many senior level technology positions at TRW, Lawrence Livermore National Labs and Bell Labs and has taught at Stevens Institute of Technology. John has his BS in Physics from Cooper Union for the Advancement of Arts and Sciences, and a PhD from the University of California at Berkeley.

Mr. McKeon is a twenty-year veteran of the IT industry and has extensive experience providing products and services to Internet, wireless, mobile, and PC markets. He is well known and highly regarded as an expert in the field of advanced authentication technologies such as smart cards and biometrics. John recently joined IBM to provide added focus to identification and authentication technologies across IBM's global safety and security offerings. He is coming off the successful acquisition and transition of 3GI, a private software company specializing in smart card and biometric technologies, to RSA Security, a publicly held leader in e-security products (Nasdaq: RSAS). John was the Vice President of Products at 3GI, where he led all phases of product marketing and development. 3GI was involved in many of the recent advanced authentication projects run by the US Department of Defense and other government agencies. Prior to 3GI, John managed IBM's Smart Card Solutions business and introduced numerous innovative solutions into the company's network computing and mobile product lines. John was the founder of the OpenCard Consortium and is a member of the Smart Card Alliance, two leading smart card industry groups.

Paul Mockapetris, the inventor of the Domain Name System (DNS), is Chief Scientist and Chairman of the Board at Nominum, Inc. Paul created DNS in the 1980s at USC’s Information Sciences Institute where he was later the Director of ISI’s High Performance Computing and Communications Division.

Throughout his career, Paul has contributed to the computing research community and to the evolution of the Internet. His earliest work at UC Irvine on distributed systems and LAN technology preceded the commercial Ethernet and Token Ring designs.

At ISI, after working on the design of the SMTP protocol for email and its first implementation as part of the birth of the Internet in 1983, Paul took on the challenge of designing DNS, and then operated the original “root servers” for all Internet names. After the formal creation of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) in 1986, DNS became one of the original Internet Standards; the IETF continues to be the focus of new applications and extensions to DNS. Paul has been associated with the IETF since its creation, chaired several DNS and non-DNS working groups, and was Chair of the IETF from 1994 to 1996.

Paul was program manager for networking at ARPA in the early 1990s, supervising efforts such as gigabit and optical networking. From 1995 on, Paul held leadership roles at several Silicon Valley networking startups, including @Home, Software.com (now OpenWave), Fiberlane (now Cisco), and Siara (now Redback Networks). Paul’s mission at Nominum is to help guide DNS and IP addressing to the next stage.

Paul has dual BS degrees in Physics and Electrical Engineering from MIT, and a PhD in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.

Paul continues to believe that the future of the Internet is ahead of it.

F. Scott Moody, 44, is the Company's co-founder, President and CEO. Since founding the Company, Mr. Moody has been responsible for its overall strategic direction, fund raising, business development and the management of day-to-day operations. The Company has been able to assemble a highly qualified team, introduce new products at a rapid pace, quickly ramp to production and develop strong relationships with industry partners. Prior to founding AuthenTec, Mr. Moody was the Vice President of a $200M division of Harris' Semiconductor Sector (now Intersil). During his tenure at Harris, Mr. Moody led the very successful turnaround of several diverse operations including the repositioning of the commodity logic business which was eventually sold to TI, the acquisition and repositioning of GE Microelectronics and the highly profitable turn around of the Group's Mil/Aero business. Mr. Moody began his career at Harris in 1980 where he gained experience in both the Semiconductor and Electronic Systems Sectors, including functional experience in engineering, manufacturing, program management, marketing and general management. Mr. Moody received a BS in Industrial Engineering from North Carolina State in 1980 and an executive MBA from the University of Florida in 1987.

Principal and founder of Acuity Market Intelligence, is a 20-year veteran of the leading-edge of "high-tech". For the past ten years, Ms. Most has provided strategic marketing consulting servicves for fledgling start-ups, established Silicon Valley legends and a range of organizations in between. She has applied her emerging technology market expertise in the areas of wireless, e-commerce, electronic bill presentation and payment, interactive services and 2D and 3D visualization and image processing. Previously, she managed the Computer Aided Molecular Design market for Silicon Graphics Computer Systems, directed Pacific Rim operations for a hospitality-based interactive services company and founded and operated a Silicon Valley-based retail company. She has designed and delivered sales and technical training courses worldwide and began her career as a software engineer specializing in 3D graphics applications. Ms. Most founded Acuity Market Intelligence to provide timely, actionable insight and analysis for emerging technology markets. She is the editor of the company's first monthly publication - Biometrics Market Intelligence. Ms. Most is a graduate of the University of California, San Diego with a multi-disciplinary degree in Mathematics and Computer Science. She presents regularly at industry events on the evolution and development of emerging technology markets.

Eric Norlin is an entrepreneur with over 10 years experience in technology. As managing editor of personalization.com, Mr. Norlin was responsible for growing the news and community site to the #1 website and conference for the personalization industry. Prior to this, Mr. Norlin worked with the National Security Agency where he cut his teeth on security and security related technologies. In 1999, Mr. Norlin worked for First Union Securities advising startups in marketing and business development. Mr. Norlin is the author of numerous government cryptologic manuals, as well as more traditional business writings that have been published or written about in publications like BusinessWeek, The Register and Inc. Magazine. Among his many talents, Mr. Norlin has been known to break keyboards with his bare hands.

Since his appointment as President and CEO of Tucows Inc., Elliot Noss has played a decisive role in the evolution of Tucows. Originally trained as a lawyer, Noss arrived at Tucows in 1997 as Vice President of Corporate Services after a stint working in the ISP business. In his initial role at Tucows, Noss played a part in the separation of the ISP division of the Company (Internet Direct) from the parent company. Next, he led the new private company through its acquisition by Steinmetz Technology Holding International, and was appointed President and CEO of Tucows Inc. in May 1999. In August 2001, he helped orchestrate a merger with Infonautics, Inc., under the Tucows name.

Noss is a frequent speaker on various industry-related topics, including: Web commerce, online advertising, market trends, ISP development, Internet regulation, privacy, transfer issues and others. Noss has a BA from the University of Toronto and an MBA and LLB from the University of Western Ontario.

Nikolaj Nyholm is founder and CTO of Ascio Technologies, a Copenhagen, Denmark, based developer of infrastructure and software to ISPs and telcos across Europe.

Nikolaj speaks regularly at European industry events on the subjects of digital identity, privacy and Internet regulation. His latest US speaking engagement was at the Securities Industry Middleware Council's (SIMC) annual security meeting, "Logging in to Wall Street (Federated Identity Management: Sorting out the possibilities)".

Nikolaj also maintains a weblog on digital identity, found at http://weblog.digital-identity.info.

Nikolaj has a B.Sc. in economics from Tufts University/Roskilde University.

Patrick O'Kane is the Chief Architect for ePresence. His responsibilities include assessing new and existing technologies and overseeing their integration into ePresence's suite of Secure Identity Management (SIM) service offerings. He is also responsible for providing guidance and overall direction for the company's solution architects. Formerly the Director of Systems Integration Engineering, Patrick joined the company in 1990 when it was known as Banyan Systems, Inc. He started his professional IT career as a software engineer in the data management systems group at Prime Computer after graduating from the University of Wisconsin with a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science.

Mr. O'Neil is founder, Chairman & CEO of CYVA Research Corporation, an independent software development and systems integration firm, San Diego, CA. O’Neil is a technologist, patent author and data protection regulatory consultant. Mr. O’Neil is the principal architect and designer of the firm’s Personal Information Agent - PIA, Trusted Network Community - TNC and Trusted Information Utility - TIU applications, products and services. CYVA’s focus is on the wireless applications and infrastructure market providing consumers, mobile network operators, and key synergy partners (e.g., device manufactures, GRXs, MVOs) a novel set of applications and services that empower trusted PIA-based identity, messaging and information utility services.

O’Neil’s presentation will focus on CYVA’s patented Self-Determining Digital Persona technology. Self-protecting data represents a novel approach to enterprise security challenges where wireless devices, service providers and infrastructure are being utilized – encapsulating personal information assets, governing rules, encryption, audit, and authentication mechanisms into self-assertive mobile agents that securely communicate, providing asset owners anywhere, anytime, command and control of informational assets. Central to many of the challenges facing organizations is assuring trusted, secure and auditable use and exchange of informational assets anywhere, anytime while constantly coping with the evolving environment of technology, organizational policy and procedure, regulatory and competitive market demands and constant stream of threats and vulnerabilities – a different paradigm and thought provoking approach will be presented.

O’Neil is the Executive Director of the International, Security, Trust and Privacy Alliance. He serves as the administrator for the ISTPA’s Privacy Tools & Technology research project and is co-editor and contributing author to the ISTPA’s Privacy Framework. Prior to this engagement Mr. O’Neil served as a manger with KPMG’s Information Risk Management practice and was the catalyst for the development and principal author of KPMG’s Global Privacy Services methodology. He organized, managed and spoke at several international and domestic (US) symposiums and workshops regarding data protection regulations, law and technology.

O’Neil has 20 years of diverse experience in information technology, encompassing a variety of engineering, management and consulting engagements in commercial and government sectors. O’Neil has keen ongoing interest in cryptography and information security, information warfare, information asset management and information utilities, trusted computing platforms, telecommunications, wireless infrastructure, m-commerce applications, services and business models, trusted digital identity, trusted network communities, software development methodologies, object-oriented programming, systems architecture and component frameworks, Java, social forecasting, world history, wisdom literature, systematic theology, cultural and religious studies (Middle East), change agentry, government, law and dispute resolution systems, global economic, societal and political issues influencing the debate regarding citizen informational privacy and informational self-determination rights and responsibilities.

A seasoned leader, Paul Paez brings over 15 years of experience developing, implementing, marketing and managing traditional and digital business initiatives. As founding Chief Executive Officer at Privastaff, Paul is directly responsible for managing the company's business development, sales and marketing, administrative and planning functions.

Most recently, Paul was President of Privacy Council, a start-up funded by Stone Investments. Implementing a new path to profitability, Paul led the launches of the company’s first four revenue-producing products. Paul grew Privacy Council from five employees to 35, successfully positioning the company as the thought-leader in the emerging Privacy space. He was responsible for corporate strategy and vision, business unit planning and management, strategic relationships, resource management and investor relations/M&A. Previously, Paul was a management consultant for Stone Investments.

Prior to joining Stone Investments, Paul led an independent consulting practice in Silicon Valley advising start-up clients on marketing, business development and sales strategies.

Paul is the former Vice President of Marketing and National Director of Digital Media Services for Source Services, where he created and launched ExperienceOnDemand.com, one of the industry’s first and most profitable career-oriented Web sites. While at Source Services, Paul pioneered the development of Internet marketing and customer relationship tools in the human resources and recruiting industry. He led the implementation of e-business, knowledge management and sales force automation across an international network of 55 offices.

Previously, Paul was the Director of e-Business for Robert Half International, where he led the introduction of e-business for the $2 billion NYSE-listed company. During his tenure, the company integrated Internet- recruitment marketing and tools and techniques into their existing sales processes. dramatically increasing traffic to its seven, independently branded Web sites. The result was a dramatic increase in applications to all divisional Web sites of more than 100 percent.

Paul began his career as a journalist, speechwriter and presenter. He is married with two children and lives in San Jose, CA. The family also maintains a residence in the Republic of Argentina, and he has extended family, personal and business contacts in the Southern Cone. Paul is a graduate of Boston College.

Parker Poole III, President and CEO of Morpheus Technologies has a broad background in the development of new information technology applications over the past 20 years. Morpheus is one of several information initiatives developed by Mr. Poole in his career and potentially the most significant and far reaching.

Mr. Poole has extensive experience in the development and market introduction of information technology and has worked on all elements of the applications from understanding the basic problem to be solved to developing the framework for large-scale deployment. Applications include credit card systems linked to information systems, data collection systems, electronic catalog systems, network solutions, and data creation systems.

Mr. Poole founded Wright Express Corp. in 1983, a national provider of information and financial fuel services for the transportation industry. Wright Express is the leading fleet credit card to the petroleum industry in the United States with over 130,000 partisipating fueling locations in North America and 4,000,000 vehicles using the service today. Wright Express processes over five billion dollars of fuel purchases annually.

Mr. Poole has also secured significant capital funding for the projects he has developed, raising over $20m in equity capital from a wide range of private and corporate investors. Included in the firms who have invested in these projects are Morgan Stanley Ventures, The Harvard Endowment Fund, Arthur D Little, Elf Aquitaine, Apex Ventures, North Atlantic Ventures, The Maine Science and Technology Foundation, and many other established firms and individuals. Mr. Poole is a 1975 graduate of Tufts University College of Engineering with a BS in Engineering.

Todd Ray has been developing, managing and selling innovative software applications for 15 years. After receiving his Masters Degree in Civil Engineering in 1989 from Stanford University, Todd continued his consulting work developing applications for customers in the civil engineering consulting space, ultimately developing a practice building web-based document retrieval systems for facilities engineering clients.

Since 1998, Todd has held various customer-facing positions at a number of software companies, including his current position for Groove Networks, and his previous position as Principal Technologist at transactional application networking company Kenamea. Todd also has experience in strategic technology development for web portals, and managing development teams as a VP of Technology.

Todd enjoys writing and was first published in 1987 based on a data management system developed for a Federal Superfund Site. Todd has also spoken at a number of technology industry conferences and forums.

Drummond Reed is the founder and CTO of OneName. He led the team that originally developed the XNS digital identity management protocol, and was one of the founders of the XNS Public Trust Organization (XNSORG) where he serves as specifications editor. Mr. Reed has been working on technologies for electronic relationship management and intelligent information interchange since 1993. He served on several of the W3C P3P working groups and is currently a member of the International Security, Trust and Privacy Alliance (ISTPA) Framework working group and the Liberty Alliance Technical Expert group. Mr. Reed also serves on the boards of XNSORG and ISTPA. Mr. Reed attended Harvard College.

Darran Rolls is the Director of Technology at Waveset Technologies, Inc. in Austin, Texas, where he is responsible for driving strategic technology initiatives, industry standards efforts and management of general technical marketing. He currently chairs the Provisioning Standards Technical Committee (PSTC) and cochairs the Security Standards Joint Committee (SSJC) for OASIS. Before joining Waveset, Darran was Director of Software Services at PointOne Telecommunications, an Austin-based next generation telecommunications provider. Prior to joining PointOne, he spent 5 years with Tivoli Systems Inc. in various design engineering and technical marketing roles. Originally from United Kingdom, Darran joined Tivoli through IBM's acquisition of DBMX Ltd., a UK-based software company, where he was a founder and Principal Engineer. Prior to founding DBMX, Darran held various consulting and software service positions in London's financial community. Darra n has more than 15 years experience in enterprise systems deployment and systems management. He holds a BS in Computing & Business Computer Systems from Cheltenham College, England, with accredited study at San Diego University. Darran is a member of the British Computer Society, Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and the Computer Security Institute (CS).