Stratton Sclavos is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of VeriSign, Inc., the leading provider of critical infrastructure services for the Internet and telecommunications networks. Since joining the company in July 1995 as one of its first employees, Mr. Sclavos has helped establish VeriSign as a global corporation relied upon every day by millions of businesses and consumers as they communicate and transact online.
Mr. Sclavos has led the company through a period of robust growth and technology innovation. VeriSign is a billion dollar company with over 2,500 passionate and committed employees worldwide. Over the past few years, he has been honored for his entrepreneurial leadership and management success by numerous organizations including ComputerWorld, Morgan Stanley, Ernst and Young and Forbes magazine. He also sits on the President's National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) and is considered an industry expert in Cybersecurity, Internet addressing and converged telecommunications services. He holds a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of California, Davis.
Stratton also sits on the board of directors of several public and private companies including Juniper Networks and Intuit. A lifelong Bay Area resident and active in the community, Stratton and his wife Jody formed the Sclavos Family Foundation to support charitable efforts in children's education and medical research.
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.
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.
John Shewchuk is CTO of Microsoft's Distributed Systems Group.
John is responsible for Microsoft's Web services architecture, identity and access technologies, and he is a founding member of the Indigo team. Prior to this John played a key role in the early internet technologies developing technologies for components, layout, and styles for the browser and was responsible for Microsoft's Internet development tools. Later John played a key role in the development of VS.NET and it's support for Web services.
Russ Daniels is Vice President & CTO for Software and Adaptive Enterprise in HP's Office of Strategy and Technology. Assigned to HP's nearly $800 million software business, he sets and coordinates the technology strategy across HP's software portfolio of solutions for the Adaptive Enterprise - HP's vision of an organization in which business and IT are synchronized to capitalize on change.
The "secret sauce" of HP's Adaptive Enterprise initiative, HP's software offerings automate the link between business processes and IT infrastructure. Daniels sets the strategy for delivering leadership software products, solutions and services that can deliver simplicity, agility and value to customers across their organizations. HP has invested heavily in software to support its Adaptive Enterprise strategy, fortifying its portfolio by partnering, building new capabilities and through seven acquisitions. Previously he was general manager of HP's application development organization, and R&D manager of the software and systems development lab.
Daniels has more than 20 years of industry experience specializing in software architecture, language runtimes, XML and software development processes. Prior to joining HP, he spent 15 years at Apple Computer where he held a variety of developer-related positions.
He holds a BA in general studies, with concentration on small business management and computer science, from Ohio University.
Dr. Lawrence A. Ponemon is the Chairman and Founder of the Ponemon Institute, a research think tank dedicated to advancing privacy and data protection practices. Dr. Ponemon is considered a pioneer in privacy risk management and the development of the Responsible Information Management or RIM framework. Ponemon Institute conducts independent research, educates leaders from the private and public sectors and verifies the privacy and data protection practices of organizations in a various industries. In addition to Institute activities, Dr. Ponemon is an adjunct professor for information ethics and privacy at Carnegie Mellon University's CIO Institute and is faculty of CyLab. He serves on the Unisys Corporation's Security Leadership Institute Board and the IBM Privacy Management Council.
Dr. Ponemon is a member of the National Board of Advisors of the Eller College of Business and Public Administration, University of Arizona. He serves on the Government Policy Advisory Committee and CoChair of the Internet Task Force for the Council of American Survey and Research Organizations (CASRO). Dr. Ponemon consults with leading multinational organizations on global privacy management programs. He has extensive knowledge of regulatory frameworks for managing privacy and data security including health care, pharmaceutical, financial services, telecom and Internet. Dr. Ponemon was appointed to the Advisory Committee for Privacy for the United States Federal Trade Commission. He was also an appointed to two California State task forces on privacy and data security laws. Dr. Ponemon was recently appointed by the Governor of Arizona to serve as public member of State Board of Optometry.
Dr. Ponemon was CEO of a privacy and data security services firm and was global managing partner of PricewaterhouseCoopers (where he founded the firm's privacy practice). Prior to Price Waterhouse, Dr. Ponemon served as the National Director of Business Ethics Services for KPMG Peat Marwick, and was appointed Executive Director of the KPMG Business Ethics Institute. Dr. Ponemon has held chaired faculty positions at Babson College and SUNY Binghamton and published more than 60 articles and five learned books. He has made more than 500 presentations at national or international conferences on privacy, data protection, information security, corporate governance, and responsible information management. Dr. Ponemon is an active member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, serving the association as its research partner and founding member of the Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP) Advisory Board.
Dr. Ponemon is column editor for Darwin Magazine, Computerworld, Privacy 1to1 and other leading business publications on the topic of privacy, data security and information ethics. He is a frequent media commentator on privacy and other business ethics topics for CNN, Fox News, CBS, CNBC, MSNBC, The Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, Financial Times, Business 2.0, Newsweek, Business Week, U.S. News & World Report, Computerworld, CIO Magazine, Industry Standard, Boston Globe, InfoWorld, InformationWeek, Forbes, Fortune, CFO Magazine, Red Herring, Dow Jones News and others.
Dr. Ponemon earned his Ph.D. at Union College in Schenectady, New York. He has a Master's degree from Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, and attended the doctoral program in system sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Dr. Ponemon earned his Bachelors with Highest Distinction from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona.
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.