Business Advisory Board

The PGP Business Advisory Board advises PGP Corporation on executive and technology user requirements in diverse markets and industries.

Bill Braithwaite, Health Information Policy Consultant
A physician with a PhD in Medical Informatics, Dr. Braithwaite is an independent health information policy consultant in Washington, D.C. Previously, he was national director of HIPAA Advisory Services for PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP. From 1994 to 2001, Dr. Braithwaite was senior adviser on Health Information Policy in the Office of the Secretary at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. During a 1994 sabbatical from the University of Colorado School of Medicine, he served on the professional health staff of the U.S. Senate Finance Committee and wrote the legislative language that became the Administrative Simplification Subtitle of the U.S. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA).

Richard Clarke, Chairman, Good Harbor Consulting LLC
An internationally recognized expert on homeland and national security, cybersecurity, and counterterrorism, Clarke consults on issues ranging from corporate security risk management to information security technology. He also advises the U.S. government on security, information technology, and counterterrorism. During 11 years of White House service under the past three presidents, Clarke held the titles of special assistant to the president for Global Affairs, national coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism, and special adviser to the president for Cybersecurity.

Bill Cleary, Founder and Principal, Cleary & Partners
Cleary directs strategic marketing and advertising at Cleary & Partners. Cleary served as chairman of Matchmaker.com from 1998 until its sale to Lycos in 2000. He founded CKS Group in 1987, where he spent 11 years popularizing the Web and establishing major brands, including Amazon.com, eBay, Excite, and Yahoo!. CKS filed an IPO in 1995, becoming the first marketing company to successfully leverage the emerging Web environment. Cleary worked at International Solutions from 1985 to 1986, after four successful years at Apple Computer. He also serves as an executive fellow and member of the Leavey School of Business Advisory Board, and he established the William T. Cleary chair held by Prof. Al Bruno in the Santa Clara University Graduate School of Business.

Esther Dyson, Editor, Release 1.0
A widely known commentator focusing on emerging technologies, business models, markets, and companies, Dyson is editor of Release 1.0 for CNET Networks, where she is responsible for its quarterly technology report (Release 1.0) and its annual PC Forum, the high-tech market's leading executive conference. Until 2004, she was the chairman of EDventure Holdings, which she sold to CNET Networks. She was the founding chairman of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 1998 to 2000. In 1997, she wrote Release 2.0: A Design for Living in the Digital Age, a book that examined the impact of the Internet on people's lives and identities.

James T. Eccleston, Vice President of Strategic Programs, NCI Information Systems Inc.
Eccleston works with NCI strategic business partners and government customers to identify and deliver value-added information technology and enterprise solutions. Prior to NCI, he was senior principal of Defense Business Solutions, managing the Joint Support Systems strategic business unit at SRA International, including implementation of enterprise management solutions for the company's Department of Defense customers. Before joining SRA, Eccleston was president of the Federal Sector at Advanced Software Design Inc., an application solutions vendor and integrator. Previously, he was assistant deputy undersecretary of defense (Logistics), Supply Chain Integration, at the Pentagon, where he was responsible for the implementation of supply chain business practices across the military services and the Defense Logistics Agency. Eccleston began his civil service career in 1984 as a presidential management intern for the United States Air Force at the Pentagon.

Craig Ehrlich, Chairman, GSM Association
Ehrlich heads the GSM Association, the largest global trade association for the wireless industry, and sits on the boards of several companies, including Roamware (a wireless applications firm), Philweb (a leading information technology and gaming firm in the Philippines), and Hutchison Mobile Communications. In mid-2003, he stepped down as group managing director of SUNDAY Communications Ltd., the GSM mobile phone company he launched in 1996. He joined Hutchison Cablevision in Hong Kong as managing director in October 1987 after eight years with one of the largest U.S. cable television operators. At Hutchison, he was a founding member of the team that launched STAR TV, Asia's first satellite-delivered, multi-channel television network. Previously, Ehrlich was group operations director at Hutchison Telecommunications, responsible for operations in 10 countries.

Sir Merlin Hay, Earl of Erroll
Lord Erroll has worked in IT most of his life as well as spending 22 years in the Territorial Army, and is a professional public speaker. He is also one of the Hereditary Peers who was elected to stay in the House of Lords, where he takes a particular interest in Information and Communication Technology (ICT), countryside and the environment, the Constitution, and Scottish matters. Within Parliament, he plays an active role in several ICT groups, especially those looking at regulatory issues involving communications, the Internet, personal identity and government data sharing. Lord Erroll sits on the council of the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee and the board of the European Information Group. He is secretary of the All-Party Communications Group, the vice-chairman of the All-Party Group on Entrepreneurship, and treasurer of the All-Party Group on Risk and Adventure in Society. He is president of the E-business Regulatory Alliance and also sits on other bodies such as the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA) and the Nominet (UK) Ltd. policy advisory boards.

Dr. Richard Horne, Director of Electronic Protection, Barclays Global Retail and Commercial Bank
Currently, Dr. Richard Horne is the director of Electronic Protection for Barclays Global Retail and Commercial Bank. In this role he has accountability for information security and privacy incident response, electronic discovery and cyber-forensics, and provision of encryption services globally. Prior to this role, Horne was chief operating officer for the global IT operations of the Retail and Commercial Bank, and acted as Interim CISO.

Horne has held a number of IT and information security leadership positions through his career. Prior to joining Barclays, he was head of Electronic Commerce and Security Services for Global Crossing UK, after leading development of cryptographic services in embedded hardware for Racal.

Horne holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Royal Holloway, University of London and has represented the UK on security matters to the OECD, the European Commission and the ISO/IEC. He was project editor of the ISO/IEC International Standard 15946-2, “Digital Signatures based on Elliptic Curves.”

Val Rahmani, CEO of Damballa, Inc.
Val Rahmani brings over 25 years of customer-driven business and technical leadership to Damballa. Prior to Damballa, Rahmani served as General Manager of IBM's Internet Security Systems (ISS) division after IBM's $1.3 billion acquisition of the company. At ISS, she was responsible for the strategic direction, growth and integration of all ISS products, services and research into IBM's overall security offerings. Prior to ISS, Rahmani held several general management roles within IBM, including multi-billion dollar hardware, software and services businesses. Her IBM experience includes UNIX, mainframe, telco, utilities, global wireless and media markets in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa. She also ran a strategy unit, where she focused on emerging markets, global alliances and services business models. Rahmani was born in the United Kingdom and first came to the United States as Executive Assistant to Lou Gerstner, soon after he became Chairman and CEO of IBM. Rahmani is an accomplished speaker, keynoting security industry events such the RSA conference in 2008. Rahmani holds an MA and a Doctor of Philosophy from Oxford University in England, and is a member of the British aerobatics team.

Jim Reavis, Founder and President, Reavis Consulting Group
Founder of the Reavis Consulting Group and former chief marketing officer for Vigilante, Reavis has been involved in the information security industry for many years as an entrepreneur, writer, speaker, technologist, and business strategist. As an information technology adviser, he serves clients in retail, banking, high-tech, and other sectors. He is a regular contributor to publications including Information Security and SC Magazine, and is in high demand both as a speaker at industry conferences and on technology-related programming from CNET, CNN, and other news outlets. In addition, Reavis is executive director of the Information Systems Security Association (ISSA), the world's largest not-for-profit association of information security professionals.

Roger Sanford, Principal, The Roger Sanford Groupe
A marketing expert with more than 20 years' experience in technology, Sanford provides strategic, brand, and M&A guidance to a wide range of organizations. He has advised dozens of public and private companies in a range of areas including: online services, wireless marketing, eCRM, and interactive entertainment. Clients have included eGenera (pre-IPO), Infreeda (sold in 2006 to AT&T), PGP Corporation, and Xingtone (Siemens AG). Before starting his consulting practice, Sanford was CEO of Transformedia, a startup created to monetize video delivered via the Internet. Previously, he served as chief marketing officer for 3MKT, Centura Software, FirstAg (sold to ConAgra), and Realm Connect (merged with DoveBid). He founded and was president of P3M, a privately held advertising agency, from 1990 to 2000. While at P3M, he worked with clients such as Apple Computer, Chevron, COVAD, Diamond, IBM, Matchmaker, Mercedes-Benz, PeopleSoft, SKYY, UPS, Vantive, Varian, Vitria, and Volvo. He serves on several advisory boards and is a member of and frequent lecturer at the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University.

Howard Schmidt, Former Special Adviser for Cyberspace Security for the White House
After 31 years of public service, Schmidt is now in the private sector. His service included appointment by President Bush as the vice chair of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and special adviser for Cyberspace Security for the White House. Prior to his White House years, Schmidt was the chief security officer for Microsoft Corporation, where he formed and directed the Trustworthy Computing Security Strategies Group. He is recognized as one of the pioneers in the field of computer forensics and computer evidence collection and has testified as an expert witness in the areas of computer crime, computer forensics, and Internet crime.