Technical Advisory Board

Carl Amdahl, Technology Partner, DCM
Amdahl is a seasoned computer and networking industry executive who founded three publicly traded companies: Magnuson Systems Inc., NetFRAME Systems, and Trilogy Systems Ltd. He is a Stanford Sloan Fellow and received an MS in management from Stanford University and a BS in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley.

Dr. Steve Babbage, Security Technologies Manager, Vodafone Group Research and Development
Dr. Babbage is the chief cryptologist for Vodafone Group, one of the world's largest mobile telecommunications network companies. His team in Vodafone Group R&D is influential in security standardization for mobile telephony (GSM, 3GPP, OMA, and others). Dr. Babbage chairs ETSI SAGE, the Security Algorithms Group of Experts that designs cryptographic algorithms for mobile and other telecommunications standards. He received an MA in mathematics and philosophy from Oxford University and a PhD in mathematics from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Dr. Crispin Cowan, Director of Software Engineering, Novell
Dr. Cowan conducts research on making systems more secure without breaking compatibility or compromising performance. He has co-authored 34 refereed publications, including those describing the StackGuard compiler for defending against buffer overflow attacks. Dr. Cowan received a PhD in computer science from the University of Western Ontario and an MS in mathematics, computer science, and a BMath, co-op honors, computer science, from the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.

Ms. Olivia Dillan, Vice President of Engineering, AtHoc
Dillan is an expert in product development, operations, and services. She has been responsible for many successful, award-winning products in the areas of security, electronic commerce, application servers, database management systems, application development tools, and new media tools and applications. Prior to AtHoc, she was PGP Corporation's group vice president of technology and services where she was responsible for delivering the company's award-winning products as well as PGP technical support. Before PGP Corporation, she held key senior executive positions, including vice president of engineering at ServGate, co-founder and COO at Model N, vice president of engineering at the NetDynamics Business Unit of Sun Microsystems, vice president of the New Media Tools and Applications Division at Oracle, vice president of product development at PGP Inc., and vice president of core product development at ASK/Ingres (now Computer Associates). Dillan graduated summa cum laude with a BA in computer science from Hunter College in New York.

Taher Elgamal, Industry Expert and Inventor of SSL
Taher Elgamal is a leading expert in computer, network and information security. Elgamal was the chief technology officer of Tumbleweed Communications until its acquisition by Axway, Inc., where he serves now as chief security officer. He was the founder/chair of Securify, and was the former chief scientist of Netscape. He is recognized in the industry as the "inventor of SSL." He wrote the base algorithm used in SSL and helped establish SSL as the Internet Security standard within standard committees and within the industry.

Elgamal invented several industry and government standards in data security and digital signatures area, including the DSS government standard for digital signatures. Several thousand publications have been written in the space referred to as "the Elgamal Cryptography.” He developed security software that was used in commercial products by approximately ten companies, as well as in the DSS government standard for digital signatures.

Elgamal has public Board of Director experience with RSA Security, hi/fn, Phoenix Technology and Tumbleweed. He is an advisor to Onset Ventures and several companies in the Internet and security space. He has a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.

Dr. Alexander "Sasha" Galitsky, Entrepreneur and Inventor
Dr. Galitsky is an internationally renowned technology entrepreneur and inventor. In the last decade, he founded and led four successful companies, including ELVEES, ELVIS+, and TrustWorks Systems (now Synartra Ltd., a member of the Hamsard Group). With ELVIS+ and Sun Microsystems, he pioneered Wi-Fi and distributed VPN/FW developments during the 1990s, and subsequently developed an innovative security management platform for VPN/FW plus end-to-end security solutions. In 2000, he was named a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and his technology achievements at TrustWorks received the award for Technology of the New Millennium. As a former president and general manager of the Soviet Space Agency, Dr. Galitsky was one of the top technical executives of the Soviet "Star Wars" program. He has authored more than 100 publications and holds more than 30 patents. Dr. Galitsky received his BS and MS in physics and computer science from the Moscow Institute of Electronics and Technology and a PhD in computer science from the Science and Research Institute of Micro Devices in Moscow.

Dr. Norman Koo, Executive Director, Chief Technology Officer, AOL Time Warner
Dr. Koo is responsible for emerging technologies for large-scale data center IT infrastructure and associated consumer and home networking devices at AOL Time Warner. Previously, he held a variety of senior management positions at Sun Microsystems Inc. and was instrumental in growing the company's Asia-Pacific revenues to more than $1 billion. He also was the founder and CEO for OpenTV, a Sun-Thomson joint venture, and helped to take the company public with a $3-billion-plus market capitalization. Dr. Koo received an MBA from the University of Santa Clara, an MS in nuclear engineering and a PhD in nuclear engineering/electrical engineering from Iowa State University, and a BS in nuclear engineering from the University of Wisconsin.

Bruce Schneier, Chief Technology Officer, BT Counterpane
Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, cryptographer, and lecturer. He is the author of seven books on network security, including Beyond Fear, Secrets & Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World, and Applied Cryptography, the seminal work in its field. He publishes a free email newsletter, Crypto Gram, which has more than 60,000 readers. Schneier has an MS in computer science and a BS in physics from the University of Rochester.

Phil Zimmermann, Founder, PGP Inc.
Zimmermann is known for his extensive work in cryptography and data security, data communications, and real-time embedded systems. He is the recipient of numerous awards and was inducted into the CRN Industry Hall of Fame, named one of InfoWorld's Top 10 Innovators, and named by Time Magazine as one of the 50 most influential people on the Internet. Zimmermann is a Fellow at Stanford Law School's Center for Internet and Society. He received a BS in computer science from Florida Atlantic University.