SSAC Member Biographies and Disclosures of Interest as of 05 August 2009

Steve Crocker

Alain Aina

Jaap Akkerhuis

Harald Alvestrand (invited)

Harald Alvestrand was born in Norway in 1959, and graduated from the Norwegian Institute of Technology (NTH) in 1984. He has worked for Norsk Data, UNINETT (the university network of Norway), EDB Maxware, Cisco Systems and, since 2006, for Google.

He has been active in Internet standardization via the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) since 1991, and has written a number of RFCs, including RFC 1766, the first standard for language tags in Internet protocols.

In the IETF, he has been an area director of the Applications area (1995-1998) and of the Operations & Management area (1998-1999; a member of the Internet Architecture Board (1999-2001), and served as chair of the IETF from 2001 to 2006.

He was alternate chair of the ICANN DNSO General Assembly from December 1999 to April 2001, and was a member of the WIPO panel of experts on the DNS in 1998-1999.

He is currently a board member of NORID (the .no domain name registry), ICANN and the Unicode Consortium.

He lives in Trondheim, Norway, is married, and has 3 children.

http://www.alvestrand.no/press/cv-short.txt

Roy Arends (invited)

Roy Arends is a SR Researcher at Nominet, and an expert on DNSSEC and DNS. He is a co-author of several IETF standards on DNSSEC and is a member of the DNS-OARC council. In the past, Roy was chair of CERT-NL at SURFnet, the dutch academic network.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/royarends

Jeffrey Bedser

KC Claffy

Steve Conte (invited)

Steve Conte is currently the Senior Manager of Information Services for the Internet Society. Prior to joining ISOC, Steve worked for the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). While at ICANN, he held the positions of Systems Administrator, IANA Manager (Interim), General Manager of Information Services and Chief Security Officer. Steve worked on the L Root Server (one of the 13 DNS root server clusters) and was a member of RSSAC and SSAC. Prior to becoming involved in Internet Administration, Steve was Director of IT for a bandwidth reseller in New York, installing and configuring high speed access and broadband to many companies in Manhattan.

Patrik Faltstrom

Robert Guerra (invited)

Robert Guerra directs Freedom House's Internet Freedom Initiative. The initiative aims to analyze the state of internet freedom, to expand involvement and engagement of under represented users in global Internet Governance discussions, and and to focus greater international attention on the growing threats to users’ rights.

Robert is also one of the founding directors of Privaterra - an ongoing project of the Tides Canada Foundation that works with non governmental organizations to assist them with issues of data privacy, secure communications, information security, Internet Governance and internet Freedom. He is often invited to speak at events to share the challenges being faced by social justice organizations in regards to surveillance, censorship and privacy.

Robert was actively involved in the UN World Summit on the Information Society - being an active member of civil society bureau, the internet governance caucus as well as being the NGO advisor to the official Canadian Government delegation.

He advises numerous non-profits, foundations and international organizations, including Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility (CPSR), Taking IT Global, DiploFoundation's Internet Governance and Policy Capacity Building Programme, and The Open Net Initiative.

http://icannwiki.org/Robert_Guerra

Duncan Hart (invited)

I'm the Deputy Head IT and Communications Security for the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA). SOCA is a trans-national intelligence-led agency with law enforcement powers and harm reduction responsibilities. Harm in this context is the damage caused to people and communities by serious organised crime.

I lead a professional team of security technologists looking at all aspects of network and application security. Previously I have been tenured as Resident Twinning Advisor and subject matter specialist in capacity building programmes for European Union accession countries in order that they could build their national information security infrastructures.

I completed my MSc in Information Security at Royal Holloway, University of London in 2002. While I am predominantly London, England based I spend a lot of time traveling with work and for pleasure.

Jeremy Hitchcock (invited)

Jeremy Hitchcock walked into Dyn Inc in 2001 as an unpaid shipper, responsible for putting little boxes inside of bigger boxes. Working his way up from the mail room, the 27-year-old techie is now the CEO and CFO of the company, responsible for advancing and growing the company through his "jack-of-all-trades" aptitude while counseling Dyn's legal, financial, HR, marketing, engineering, and product development departments and providing strategic direction for the company as a whole. Jeremy brings his garage-tech enthusiasm and his degree from Worcester Polytechnic Institute to Dynamic Network Services (known simply as Dyn Inc.), turning this startup into an upstart.

Under Jeremy's leadership, Dyn Inc. became the fastest growing DNS provider in the world, teaching people how to "break free" from their old DNS provider and offering a superior level of personal interaction and customer service. He helped nurture a free open-source project into a vibrant technology company that currently boasts more than two million customers growing. He has been a presenter at numerous conferences and events, including Web 2.0 and Interop, and he participates in many industry consortiums and organizations, including ICANN and NANOG.

Jeremy was recently listed as one of the "Forty under 40" emerging business professionals and leaders in the state of New Hampshire. He's served as trustee or advisor for the Community College System of New Hampshire, University of New Hampshire Manchester, Chester College, and Worcester Polytechnic Institute. He's chairman of the Manchester Young Professionals Network. He also was named Young Entrepreneur for New Hampshire by the U.S. Small Business Administration.

http://dynamicnetworkservices.com/about-jeremy-hitchcock

http://www.linkedin.com/in/jhitchco

Rodney Joffe

Mark Kosters

Warren Kumari (invited)

Warren Kumari is a Senior Network Engineer/Senior Network Security Engineer with Google, and has been with the company since 2005. As a senior engineer, Warren is responsible for all aspects of keeping the Google production network both secure and operational as well as mentoring other members of his team. He also participates in Google's industry standards groups.

Warren has over 15 years of experience in the Internet industry, ranging from tiny start-up ISPs to large enterprises. Prior to Google, he was a Senior Network Engineer at AOL and before that he was Lead Network Engineer at Register.com (when the Shared Registry System first started).

With security concerns becoming more and more prevalent, Warren has chosen to be an active participant of the IETF, the ICANN Security and Stability Advisory Committee, and NANOG. These groups afford him the opportunity to contribute to the community in a vital way by supporting and advancing Internet standards and protocols.

Matt Larson (invited)

Matt Larson is Vice President of DNS Research in VeriSign's Office of the Chief Technology Officer, where he works as a specialist in DNS protocol and operational issues. He is an active participant in the wider DNS community as a contributor to the DNS engineering and operations working groups in the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF); as a board member of the DNS Operations, Analysis, and Research Center (DNS-OARC); as vice-chair of ICANN's Root Server System Advisory Committee (RSSAC); and as a member of ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC).

He is the co-author of the O'Reilly & Associates Nutshell Handbooks DNS on Windows Server 2003, DNS on Windows 2000 and DNS on Windows NT.

Matt joined VeriSign in June, 2000, from Acme Byte & Wire, a company he started in 1997 with co-author Cricket Liu. Acme Byte & Wire specialized in DNS consulting and training and its customers included more than 10% of the Fortune 100.

Prior to Acme Byte & Wire, Matt worked for five years at Hewlett-Packard, first in the Corporate Network Services group, where he ran hp.com, one of the largest corporate domains in the world. He later joined HP's professional services organization.

Matt has degrees in computer science and church music/organ performance from Northwestern University.

http://www.verisignlabs.com/~matt/bio.html

Douglas Maughan (invited)

Dr. Douglas Maughan is a Program Manager in the Command Control and Interoperability Division (CID) within the Science and Technology (S&T) Directorate of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Dr. Maughan is directing the Cyber Security Research and Development activities at DHS S&T. His research interests and related programs are in the areas of networking and information assurance. Prior to his appointment at DHS, Dr. Maughan was a Program Manager at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) in Arlington, Virginia.

Dr. Maughan received Bachelor’s Degrees in Computer Science and Applied Statistics from Utah State University, a Masters degree in Computer Science from Johns Hopkins University, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).

Danny McPherson

Ram Mohan

Russ Mundy

Frederico A C Neves

Ray Plzak

Ramaraj Rajashekhar

Christophe Reverd (invited)

French Internet pioneer, now President of Auditia Consulting Services inc. a company that provides Information Security consulting services to small, medium and major organizations in addition to Networks Governance to worldwide Internet stakeholders, Christophe Reverd worked amongst other things for Bell Solutions d’impartition TIC, Fédération des caisses Desjardins du Québec, National Bank of Canada, Ville de Montréal, Hydro-Québec and Ministère of Services Gouvernementaux of Québec.

He has a great interest in presenting conferences and seeking international short term consulting services contracts. For such a reason he is willing to travel on an intensive basis all around the world.

He holds CISA, CISSP and ISSMP professional certifications, and a Specialized Graduate Diplomas (DESS) in « Governance, audit and IT security » at University of Sherbrooke (Québec, Canada).

At the same time, finishing a Master in Business Administration, he’s more and more involved with international organizations about Internet Governance since the foundations of his Master's report consist of identifying political and technological management and control mechanisms in these types of organizations.

As a result Christophe became a member of the Internet Society (ISOC) and has also recently joined Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) as a guest of Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC).

Shinta Sato

John Schnizlein (invited)

http://www.isoc.org/isoc/general/staff/?id=28

Mark Seiden

Doron Shikmoni

Dan Simon (invited)

Dan Simon is a software architect in the Windows Networking group at Microsoft Corp. He has been with Microsoft for fifteen years, mostly at Microsoft Research, where he did research on cryptography and computer and network security. He has published academic papers in the areas of cryptography, computer and network security, theoretical computer science, and quantum computation. He received his BMath from the University of Waterloo in 1986, and his PhD in computer science from the University of Toronto in 1993.

Bruce Tonkin

Stefano Trumpy (invited)

Stefano Trumpy is a research manager of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) allocated in the Institute for Informatics and Telematics in Pisa. In recent years its main interest have been focused on Internet governance. Has been a pioneer for the introduction of the Internet in Italy; he was the Director of CNUCE institute of CNR when the first permanent link to ARPAnet was established between CNUCE and US-Virginia (1986).

He was administrator the ccTLD “.it” since its inception in 1987, until 1999. Since 1999 he acts as GAC (Governmental Advisory Committee) member for Italy within ICANN. He acts as liaison of GAC to SSAC. He advises the Minister for Innovation and Technology for matters concerning the Internet governance. He brought the CNUCE Institute among the founders of the Internet Society (ISOC) in 1992; since its inception in 2000, he is the President of the Italian chapter of ISOC. He acted as President of TERENA (Trans European Research and Education Networking Association) from 95 through 99. He has been director of the CNUCE - CNR (an institute dedicated to research and development of advanced services on information science and networking) from 83 through 96. He is author of about a hundred publications and technical reports; he has been guest editor of the IEEE Proceedings Special Issue on “Evolution of Internet Technologies” published in September 2004.

Patrick Vande Walle (invited)

http://patrick.vande-walle.eu/biography/

Paul A Vixie

Rick Wesson

Richard Wilhelm (invited)

Rick Wilhelm, Vice President Engineering, is responsible for the development, quality, and delivery of Network Solutions' core systems, including our online store. Rick participates in the broader Internet community as Network Solutions' technical representative on ICANN-related matters, including topics such as DNS stability, registrant protection, and DNSSEC. Rick also writes a wide-ranging security blog at www.smartwebsitesecurity.com. Prior to joining Network Solutions, Rick spent seven years at NeuStar where he held challenging roles in software engineering, operations, and corporate technology strategy. Rick was the principal architect of the NeuStar registry for the .biz gTLD launch, and led its technology teams as it grew to include .us ccTLD and other products.

Prior to NeuStar, Rick held key leadership roles in a Series A-focused VC firm and a boutique Java technology consultancy. Rick started his career at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) where he was part of a small collection of experts who provided architecture expertise to high-profile projects. At Andersen, he also served as a firm-wide representative to the ANSI X3J16 committee for the standardization of C++.

Rick received his Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Computer Science) with High Honors from the University of Illinois.

http://about.networksolutions.com/site/rick-wilhelm/

Suzanne Woolf