Advisory Board

A researcher in the areas of secure systems, cryptography, and trust management. He is currently a full Professor of Computer and Information Science at the University of Pennsylvania, and on the board of directors of the Tor Project.

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Jon Callas is a technologist, inventor, and executive with deep experience in designing products and systems. Called “An entrepreneur and innovator in information security and cryptography, operating system security, public key infrastructure, and intellectual property rights,” he is also an expert in privacy and an innovator in human-computer interactions. Mr. Callas is a creator of several Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) standards, including OpenPGP, DKIM, and ZRTP. He is also a creator of Apple’s FileVault 2 storage encryption system, and led an application security red team. He has worked on public policy and human rights at the ACLU and EFF.

Lee Felsenstein has for over 50 years been an explorer in applying technology for social benefit. As an engineering student at Berkeley in 1964 he participated in the Free Speech Movement and saw how an open, equitable information structure could work wonders in allowing a campus of strangers become a community. From then on he has pursued the necessary technologies to make that process commonplace. By 1970 he realized that a network of computers would be the effective technology, and within one year was working with a group that had secured a mainframe timesharing computer for counterculture support. By 1973 the group had created Community Memory – the first public-access bulletin board system with a terminal in Berkeley and one in San Francisco. In that project, he says, “We opened the door to cyberspace and found that it was hospitable territory”. Lee has worked in Silicon Valley since 1968 performing hardware design and helping in the development of the early personal computer industry. He was able to apply lessons learned from Community Memory to the structure and function of the meetings of the legendary Homebrew Computer Club, whose meetings spawned 23 identifiable businesses, including Apple.

Gordon Lyon authored the open source Nmap Security Scanner in 1997 and continues to coordinate its development. He also maintains the SecLists.Org, Insecure.Org, SecTools.Org, and Nmap.Org security resource sites and has authored seminal papers and patents on remote operating system detection and stealth port scanning. He is a founding member of the Honeynet Project and serves on the technical advisory boards for Qualys and AlienVault. He also authored or co-authored the books “Nmap Network Scanning”, “Know Your Enemy: Honeynets” and “Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent”. His newest project is Npcap, a raw networking library and driver for Windows.

Is CEO of HackerOne, the world’s leading vendor of hacker-powered security. Marten is passionate about leadership, distributed teams, global businesses, innovation, infrastructure software, the industry landscape, and technology shifts that have profound impact on society. He believes in openness of tools, methods and work as this enables the smartest minds of this planet to participate in creating something that is far bigger than the sum of its parts. Formerly SVP and GM of Hewlett-Packard’s Cloud Business, CEO of Eucalyptus, EIR at Benchmark Capital and Index Ventures, SVP and GM of the Database Group of Sun Microsystems, CEO of MySQL AB.

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Michael Morgan is the retired CEO of Morgan & Claypool, the digital science and technology publisher that he co-founded in 2003. Morgan & Claypool is publisher of the Synthesis Digital Library of Engineering and Computer Science and the Colloquium Digital Library of the Life Sciences, which are used by over 300 universities and corporate and government labs worldwide. Prior to founding M&C, he was CEO of the computer science book publisher, Morgan Kaufmann, which he co-founded in 1984 and Vice President of Book Publishing at Academic Press/Harcourt. He began his career as a computer science publisher at Addison Wesley. He serves on the Board of Directors of the University of California Press and the Association of American Publishers Committee on Freedom of Expression. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with his family and wife, Debra Hunter, former CEO of Jossey-Bass Publishers.

Chief information security officer (CISO) of Expel where he’s responsible for cyber risk management and ensuring the secure operations of Expel’s services. Previously, Bruce co-founded Ponte Technologies, a cybersecurity research and engineering company that worked with organizations ranging from hedge funds to intelligence agencies. Bruce founded the Shmoo Group and helps run the yearly hacker conference, ShmooCon, in Washington, DC. He has co-authored several books and written numerous articles on security (or the lack thereof). He is a regular speaker at conferences including DefCon, Blackhat, and O’Reilly Security as well as private events at the United States Military Academy, the Library of Congress and other government agencies.

Ean is currently the CTO for Brainfood, a Dallas base web design and development group. He is a long-time participant in the Debian project and collaborated in the creation of the Debian Social Contract which inspired the Open Source Definition. Ean brings with him public non profit experience, as he has served as President of Software in the Public Interest, a New York based public non profit. Software in the Public Interest is the umbrella organization that holds property and provides other services for Debian and other organizations that support open or free software. Ean also worked with Open Source for America, an industry consortium, which supports both free and open source software serving as the Chairman of the technical committee.

From 2010-2013 Mudge oversaw and ran cyber security research programs for the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community out of DARPA. He was awarded the highest medal able to be given to a civilian from the Secretary of Defense: The Medal for Exceptional Public Service. After DARPA, Mudge was Deputy Director if Google’s Advanced Technology And Projects division, until he left to launch the non-profit 501(c)3 Cyber Independent Testing Labs where he is currently their board chairman. He is currently head of security at Stripe.