Michael Stephenson is the Director of Product Management responsible for Microsoft's Identity and Access Management product marketing strategy. In this position, Michael oversees a team whose responsibilities include the marketing strategy for Active Directory, Microsoft Identity Integration Server and other Windows Server identity assets. In addition Michael manages the gathering and analysis of customer requirements and market data to support key product development direction and decisions. Michael has been with Microsoft for eight years and has held various product management roles focused on the server market place.

Prior to coming to Microsoft, Michael was at a start-up in the San Francisco Bay Area focused on design and manufacturing processes. In his spare time, Michael enjoys spending time with his family, wood working, and fly fishing.

Nico Popp is Vice President and General Manager of VeriSign Authentication and Email Security Services within the Security Services Business unit. In this role, Nico is responsible for managing VeriSign Unified Strong Authentication, client PKI and anti-spam products. Nico is also head of the Research & Advanced Products group that leads VeriSign's efforts developing new products and services. Prior to VeriSign, Nico was RealNames Corporation's chief technical officer from 1997 to 2002. He led the engineering team that designed and built the first version of the Keyword system. Throughout his career, Nico's projects - everything from automatic pilot systems to speech recognition software to Web application servers. Prior to joining RealNames, Nico was the co-inventor and engineering manager for WebObjects at NeXT Software and Apple Computer. Nico began his career as an automatic control engineer for Avions Marcel Dassault, where he designed and implemented automatic pilot prototypes. He earned a master of science degree in robotics from Stanford University, and a bachelors degree in aeronautics from Sup'Aero, France. In 1990, together with Professor Ilan Kroo from Stanford University, Nico designed and built a semi rigid asymmetric windsurfing sail that performed the world's fourth- fastest run (30.1 knots) at the Windsurfing Speed Championship in Saintes Marie de la Mer, France.

Anthony Nadalin is the chief security architect for IBM SWG. As Distinguished Engineer, he is responsible for security infrastructure design and development across IBM, Tivoli. Anthony also serves as the primary security liaison to Sun Microsystems' JavaSoft Division for Java security design and development collaboration. In his 20-year career with IBM, Anthony has been Lead Security architect for VM/SP, Security architect for AS/400, and Security architect for OS/2. Anthony has authored and coauthored over thirty technical journal and conference articles and has published a book on Java Security and the Internet.

Jason Hart is Chief Executive Officer and Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing. Mr. Hart brings strong leadership, teamwork, and a focus on delivering real business value to ActivIdentity customers. Mr Hart is also responsible for the Company's sales and marketing initiatives as well as product management and business development activities.

Mr. Hart founded Protocom in 1989 and has received many awards and industry and international recognition for his business acumen, innovation, and leadership in the information and communication technology sector. Most notably, Mr. Hart was named the Ernst & Young Australian Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2002, and was awarded an Honoree Ambassadorship for the Australian Capital Territory Government in 2001.

Under Mr. Hart's guidance, Protocom became the fastest growing Australian software development firm, measured in terms of its revenue growth and staff expansion by Deloitte Australia Technology Fast 50 in 2004.

Archie Reed has worked in the technology industry for more than 14 years. He focuses on identifying and predicting the direction of technologies in messaging and identity management, and defining the corporate strategy. Mr. Reed participates in standards committees including OASIS, and is an active speaker at technical and analyst conferences. In addition to writing articles for various publications, he is the published author of "Implementing Directory Services" (McGraw-Hill), "The Definitive Guide to Windows 2000 and Exchange 2000 Migration" and "The Definitive Guide to Identity Management" (Realtimepublishers.com). He holds a MS in Enterprise Network Management from Sheffield Hallam University.

Dr. Selim Aissi has been working in the computer industry for over 14 years and has been involved in the development of safety-critical, embedded systems, information technology, and wireless platforms in the R&D sector, in military, automotive, and commercial environments. Before joining Intel in 2000, he worked at the University of Michigan, General Dynamics' M1A2 Abrams Battlefield Tank Division, General Motors' Embedded Controller Excellence Center, and Applied Dynamics International. At Intel, he played several management and senior architecture roles, and he is currently the Chief Architect for Manageability and Security at Intel’s Mobile Platform Architecture Division (Centrino). He has served on several conference and journal technical boards, and has been the vice-chair of the Security and Management Conference for the past 4 years. Dr. Aissi is a member of the IEEE, ACM, and ISSA. Dr. Aissi has over 15 patents submitted and is the co-author of the recent book "Security in Mobile Networks and Platforms" (Artech House).

Toffer Winslow is the Vice President of Product Management and Product Marketing at RSA Security where he leads product management, product marketing, partner development and strategic planning for the company’s identity and access management solutions.

With fifteen years of general management experience with both large and small technology companies, he oversees the company’s direction in the enterprise solutions division including two-factor authentication, web access management, federated identity management, enterprise single sign-on and digital certificate management product lines.

Before joining RSA Security in 2003, Toffer led product management, marketing and business development for the largest business unit of Empirix, an innovative provider of application test and performance management solutions. Previously, Toffer was a partner at a leading e-business integrator, vice president of marketing at a pioneering Java development platform start-up, and a consultant with Monitor Group, a leading strategy advisory firm.

Toffer is a frequent speaker at industry conferences including Digital ID World, RSA Conference and eWorld Financial Expo. Toffer is a graduate of the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration, and an Honors graduate in Political Science from the University of British Columbia.

Mark Ford is a partner in our Security Services group. He possesses strong credentials in leading teams responsible for the implementation of technical security products to solve complex access management issues. Mark has developed information security architecture programs including general and specific security standards and procedures, platform and network security baseline configurations, user awareness programs, legal and regulatory compliance, and classification methodologies. He has served as the Engagement Partner for the implementation of Identity Management and Web Single Sign-On solutions at many of our key clients. Currently, Mark leads Deloitte's Identity Management Practice within the U.S. Central Sector. He also serves as the national Partner Relationship Manager between Deloitte & Touche and IBM regarding the SecureWay product line. Mark specializes in Identity Management solutions, Directory Services implementation, technology architecture development, risk and vulnerability assessments, and designing/implementing enterprise technology security solutions.

Mark drives the vision and overall business strategy for SailPoint. Previously, he was founder and president of Waveset, where he helped establish the company's industry-leading position in the identity management space, including 250 percent revenue growth year over year for three years. Following the acquisition of Waveset by Sun Microsystems, Mark served as vice president of marketing for Sun software. He has diverse experience in international sales and marketing with Hewlett-Packard, IBM and Tivoli Systems.

Jim McHugh drives strategic marketing, portfolio management and business development for Sun's market-leading Identity Management, Business Integration and Application Platform offerings. Previously, Jim played a key role in the development of the Java Enterprise System and Java Desktop pricing and business models. He also served as senior director of Software Portfolio Strategy and Marketing, responsible for driving the strategic direction of Sun's software organization.

Prior to joining Sun, Jim co-founded and ran Rightscenter, Inc. a software and rights management services company that offers solutions for the entertainment and publishing industries. In his career, he has held multiple marketing positions at Encanto Networks, where he was the Director of Product Marketing, and Apple Computer. Jim holds an International MBA from Thunderbird, The American Graduate School of International Management.

Marc Boroditsky is the president, CEO and a co-founder of Passlogix. Mr. Boroditsky also serves on the company’s Board of Directors. He oversees the company’s overall operations, direction and strategy.

Over the past 15 years, Mr. Boroditsky has led organizations that have developed enterprise computing and commercial software products in the financial services and healthcare markets. Prior to co-founding Passlogix, Mr. Boroditsky was the president of Numera Inc. where he directed the development of products dealing with the management of personal identification numbers, passwords and security codes for related telecommunications and financial service products.

Prior to Numera, Mr. Boroditsky was a founder, president and CEO of Novus Technologies, Inc., a medical informatics company. He directed all stages of product development, marketing, sales and financing to bring the first-ever FDA authorized PC-based medical image archive and distribution system to market.

Before founding Novus, Mr. Boroditsky was an Officer and Senior Strategic Planner with ICA, a $12 billion financial services company. His initial responsibilities included implementing integrated real time profit/loss reporting systems across all business units in a highly heterogeneous computing environment, resulting in responsibility for all business planning activity.

Steven Sprague is president and CEO of Wave Systems Corp. Based in Lee, MA, Wave is a leader in delivering trusted computing applications and services with advanced products, infrastructure and solutions across multiple trusted platforms from a variety of vendors. Wave holds a portfolio of significant fundamental patents in security and e-commerce applications and employs some of the world's leading security systems architects and engineers. Sprague has a B.S. in mechanical engineering from Cornell University and resides in Lenox, MA.

As Chief Security Architect, Vadim Lander advises the Company on key security technology trends, further develops CA’s strategic direction, and works with the engineering teams to implement the technical direction. Previously, Lander was CTO at Netegrity, which was acquired by CA in November 2004. Lander joined Netegrity in 1996 as a senior software engineer, bringing with him over ten years of development experience in a number of high tech companies. Throughout his tenure at Netegrity he held a number of successive growth positions in engineering and has been instrumental in the definition and development of the company’s identity and access management products.

Justin Taylor has been with Novell since 1997 and serves as the Chief Strategist for Digital Identity within Novell's Office of the CTO. Through his role as Chief Strategist, Mr. Taylor is responsible for leading efforts within Novell around identity technologies and concepts. As the lead for identity within Novell, Mr. Taylor's responsibilities further include vision, architectural direction, competitive strategy and evangelism in the identity marketplace. Mr. Taylor also acts as Novell's representative to the Liberty Alliance.

Zannetos is co-founder and CEO of Courion and is responsible for setting Courion's strategic direction. Zannetos is also co-chair of the TechNet CEO Cybersecurity Task Force. Prior to Courion, Zannetos was a co-founder and partner at IT service and security consulting firm Onsett International. While at Onsett, he led IT operations re-engineering, enterprise security, and global network architecture programs for several Global 500 customers. Zannetos has Bachelor of Science degrees in both Economics and Political Science from MIT and a Master of Science degree in Management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Chris Voice is a widely respected technologist and corporate executive in the information security industry. At Entrust, Chris serves as the company's technology "evangelist," working closely with key customers and partners across a wide array of vertical markets to identify new technological needs and potential applications for greater security and increased productivity. In tandem, he works with Entrust's product marketing and development teams to establish innovative solutions to meet the ever evolving customer and market demands generated by today's digital life. Chris also participates in a number of industry associations and member organizations, including the Business Software Alliance (BSA), Cyber Security industry Alliance (CSIA), the Anti-Phishing Working Group, the Financial Services Technology Consortium (FSTC) and others.

Mr. Jasuja is responsible for driving Oracle’s go-to-market strategy for its identity management business. This responsibility encompasses security solution development, partner and sales enablement as well as product management. In this role, Mr. Jasuja also oversees development of Oracle’s directory services offerings – including Oracle Internet Directory and Oracle Virtual Directory.

Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Jasuja was vice president, Product Management at Netegrity. During his five years at Netegrity, his team was responsible for product planning and strategy for the company’s entire product line. A security industry veteran, Mr. Jasuja also previously spent nine years at Oracle as a development manager for database security.

Kris brings over 20 years of experience in the commercialization and application of networked computing technologies to bear on his role as Chief Technology Officer at Epok. Kris shapes the vision for the company’s technology and acts as evangelist for information sharing and collaboration. Beginning his career as an engineer at Sun Microsystems, Kris quickly moved into technical director roles at NeXT and vice presidential roles at Netscape and subsequently AOL. Immediately prior to joining Epok, Kris was Chief Technical Officer at Breakthrough Commerce where he directed all technical developments. Mr. Younger is a graduate of Purdue University, where he earned his degree in computer science and with Epok, is a member of AFCEA, FSTC (Financial Services Technology Consortium), IAC, and ITAA. In addition, Kris was appointed by the Governor of Delaware to the Delaware Investment Technology Council where he serves as a trusted advisor to the state on technology expenditures and projects.

Michael Barrett is the chief information security officer for PayPal. In this role he is responsible for ensuring the security of information systems and services, as well as the integrity and confidentiality of customer and employee information. Before joining PayPal, Barrett was vice president of security and utility strategy at American Express where he helped define the company’s information-security program and directed its Internet technology strategy.

Previously, Barrett was president of the Liberty Alliance, an open-standards consortium focused on identity management standards and guidelines. Barrett was the driving force behind the introduction and standardization of the Alliance’s federated identity concepts, and he also co-chaired its Identity Theft Prevention Working Group. Barrett is both a certified information systems security professional (CISSP) and a certified information security manager (CISM). He graduated from Brighton University (U.K.), where he earned a bachelor of science degree in computer science.