Kennie Kwong

AT&T
Lead Member of Technical Staff

Kennie is Lead Member of Technical Staff in the CTO Strategic Standards organization at AT&T. With over 30 years of experience in telecomm and datacomm network and service development, planning & standards, Kennie has been a key contributor in numerous standards and industry guidelines projects and led a number of these at the national and international levels covering terminal equipment, Layers 1 to 3 systems and mobile application/service enablers. In 2007, Kennie led the Identity Management Project in the GSM Association participated by leading global operators and experts from Gemalto (Smartcard) and Microsoft (Information Card), culminating in publication of the GSMA IdM Framework Document. This work investigated the principles of identity management, user privacy, and IdM architecture options leveraging UICC authentication and identity federation to position mobile operators as the IdP. He also contributed to the 3G Americas IdM white paper and currently leads the Mobile Barcodes standardization in the Open Mobile Alliance. Kennie will represent AT&T contributions of consumer and Cloud services IdM expertise to the OIX mission of defining and promoting open identity trust frameworks. Kennie holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from Lowell Technological Institute (now University of Massachusetts Lowell).

John F. “Jack” Jones, Jr., Ph.D.

Booz Allen Hamilton
Executive Advisor

John F. "Jack" Jones, Ph.D., joined Booz Allen Hamilton in February of 2011 as an Executive Advisor. He works in the Health Market and is part of the Systems Development Capability area. His areas of focus include: 1) Federated Identity and Attribute Activities; 2) advising federal executives on the key issues of cloud computing, re-usable services, and mobility; and 3) engaging the analytics group in areas of Systems Biology and natural language processing.

Dr. Jones served as the CIO of NIH from June 2005 after having served as the Chief IT Architect from 2001. During his tenure with NIH Jack implemented an identity management program that created NIH Login, a single sign on-service which grew from supporting a single application at the beginning to supporting over 300 applications and several services. He extended this capability by adding the use of external credentials. This provided access for 26M researchers across the US with access to resources at NIH using the credentials issued at their “home” institutions. He also began the move to service-oriented architecture at NIH by creating the needed infrastructure and sponsoring the development aof services for acquisition and travel. He has been widely considered a thought leader in the emerging systems biology field. Dr. Jones was cited by “Government Computing News” as one of the Top IT Leaders in the government for his work in gaining collaboration across the NIH for the initiatives he saw as strategically important. In 2009 Dr. Jones joined the Board of Directors of the BRIDG Project, an effort directed at the standardization of information related to the approval and safety of biomedical devices and therapeutics.

Before coming to the NIH, Jack was the Director of Information Processes at Sandia National Laboratories. In this role he developed Sandia’s first intranet, which was recognized by industry groups as the leading uses of this technology, having gone from nothing to 300,000 pages in six months. Previous to that he developed the Nuclear Weapons Complex CAD/CAM Integration Program. This work was acknowledged with an award from the National Institute of Standards and Technology for “the first commercial use of the Initial Graphics Exchange Specification.”

During his last two years at Sandia, he also served as senior advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Department of Energy for the Advanced Strategic Computing Initiative. His work included consulting on the development of a series of state of the art parallel computers simulating the all phases of nuclear weapons operations. While at the Department of Energy he also developed a cyber security remediation plan following the Wen Ho Lee incident in Los Alamos.

Jack attended Case Western Reserve University as an undergraduate, and graduated first in his class. He continued his education at Stanford University and was awarded Master and Doctor of Philosophy degrees in Aeronautical Engineering. Jack’s graduate education was interrupted by four years of service in the U.S. Navy, serving as a Naval Flight Officer. Jack’s career focus moved from aviation to computing, and his work to develop and employ standards in computer-aided design and manufacturing across the DOE complex

In his former roles as the Chief IT Architect and as CIO at NIH, one of Jack’s goals has been to ensure that information technology is matched to the business needs and processes that it supports. His efforts have brought together disparate communities, from physician-scientists to accountants and technologists, and the results include the development of business process and conceptual data models for grants award and management, and the acceptance of business process modeling as a required part of application development. He also established service oriented architecture at NIH, creating internal services and using services from external sources such as GovTrip. Jack is married and has two grown children. He continues to enjoy aviation in his spare time

Jeffrey Broberg

CA Technologies
Advisor, Security Solutions, Product Management

Jeffrey Broberg is an Advisor and Senior Architect within CA Technologies, Security Customer Solution Group. He is also a member of the Council for Technical Excellence (CTE). Jeff received his BS of Engineering at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Jeff is currently leading the creation of security solutions that enhance Identity and Access Management to incorporate evolving trends regarding trusted identities, IT Consumerization, mobility, Cloud IAM services, and information centric data protection. He is also is responsible for the harmonization of the business units solutions as well as looking at trends and opportunities within 18 - 36 month timeframe. He sits on the fence between product management and engineering and participates in many industry standards activities. Jeff has over 25 years’ experience, and has held various senior positions at Novell, IBM, SilverStream, etc. He founded eObject which developed a java based Rules Engine which was acquired by SilverStream in 2000.

Ron Carpinella

Equifax
Vice President of Identity Management

Ron Carpinella is Vice President of Identity Management at Equifax. In this position, he manages the company’s initiatives in User Centric Identity Management and has strategic oversight for product development and marketing efforts in this area. Before joining Equifax, Mr. Carpinella served in numerous leadership roles at prominent Internet media and technology companies such as Google, Veoh, Engage Media, Flycast, Fansonly and Relevant Knowledge. Active in many industry organizations, Mr. Carpinella is a member of the Information Card Foundation and the the Center for Identity Management Research, among others. Mr. Carpinella earned a B.A. from Purdue University and an MBA from Duke University.

Daniel Elvester

Experian
Senior Director, Business Development Experian Decision Analytics

Dan Elvester is the Senior Director of Business Development for Experian’s Decision Analytics business unit. In this role, he is responsible for development and execution of strategic partnerships, aligning business objectives in fraud detection and prevention, operational efficiency and compliance with new and existing products and markets. Dan has been with Experian for five years.Since joining Experian, Dan has secured strategic partnerships with a variety of companies including Early Warning Services for DDA data sources, TargusInfo® for additional phone verification, Accertify for call center support, several biometrics organizations and more. Dan’s previous experience includes three years with LexisNexis where he developed and executed a partner reseller program, and three years with HNC, focused on eCommerce. Mr. Elvester holds a Bachelor of Science in Management from California State University Northridge.

Andrew Nash

Google
Director of Identity Products

Andrew Nash is Director of Identity Products at Google and a board member of the Open Identity Exchange. Formerly he was Director of Identity Services at PayPal and was CTO at Sonoa Systems and Reactivity working on XML and Web Services appliances. As Director of Technologies at RSA Security, Andrew worked on a wide range of identity systems. He is a known leader in PKI and Web-Services markets, has co-authored numerous Web Services security specifications and is author of a book on Public Key Infrastructure.

Dennis Becker

LexisNexis Risk Solutions
Vice President, Emerging Markets

Dennis Becker joined LexisNexis in 2007 as vice president for emerging markets, which includes responsibility for business strategy, market offerings and professional services for solutions ranging from identity verification to dynamic knowledge-based and biometric authentication for use in private and public sector applications and in developing identity trust frameworks. Additionally, Dennis is responsible for LexisNexis’ eCommerce, Payments, Retail, Communications, Utility and Provider Healthcare markets.

Prior to LexisNexis, Dennis launched an organization responsible for international business-to-business solutions at Acxiom and led sales, marketing and client operations for Acxiom’s Communications and Utilities vertical markets. Before that, he was responsible for strategy and new product development at Cendian Chemical Logistics. Prior to joining Cendian, Dennis served as vice president at Equifax, responsible for customer relationship management offerings, credit analytics and consulting services and direct-to-consumer information products. Dennis began his career at BellSouth where he was responsible for product management and commercialization of advanced technology lines of business.

Dennis currently serves on the board of The University of Texas Center for Identity and is a participant in the North American Security Products Organization (NASPO) Identity Proofing and Verification (IDPV) project, who’s charter is to create an American National Standard to define minimum standards for proof and verification of personal identity. Dennis holds a Bachelor of Arts and Sciences from University of Alabama with a degree in Economics.

Farhang Kassaei

PayPal
Chief Architect at eBay Marketplaces

Farhang has 15+ years of experience in building distributed and secure systems. He currently serves as chief architect of eBay’s Managed Marketplaces and X.Commerce Identity Services, in his role he is responsible for marketplaces identity services, security and fraud prevention engineering. Prior to this role he was the lead architect for eBay’s application and third party platforms. For the past 7 years he has architected and delivered solutions to address platform security, identity, open integration, entity resolution, risk management and fraud detection and prevention. Before joining eBay, he cofounded SiteRep, which provided hosted customer support. He also led engineering and product teams at successful startups. Farhang has M.Sc in computer science and MBA from UC Berkeley.

Nico Popp

Symantec
Vice President, Identity and Authentication Services

Nico Popp heads product development for VeriSign Trust Seal Services, now a Symantec business. Prior to this role, Nico was Vice President of Product for VeriSign Authentication Services. In that function, Nico had product management responsibility for the Managed PKI and strong authentication product lines. During his 7 years tenure at VeriSign, Nico has introduced several new products, including VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP), VeriSign Fraud Detection Service (FDS), the Personal Identity Portal (PIP) and VeriSign Trust Seal.  Prior to VeriSign, Nico was chief technical officer for RealNames Corporation from 1997 to 2002. Nico was also co-inventor and engineering manager for WebObjects at NeXT Software and Apple Computer. Nico holds a M.S. degree in Robotics from Stanford University, and a B.S. in Aeronautics from Sup'Aero, France.
 

Paul Florack

Transaction Network Services, Inc
Vice President – TSD Product Management

Paul has been part of TNS’ Telecommunications Services Division product team since 1993 and is now Vice President responsible for product strategy and business development. Previously, Paul led the company’s product management team, which involved overseeing key product launches, including the company’s highly successful Calling Identity service and was responsible for the launch of one of the industry’s first Inter-Carrier Short Messaging Services. TNS is a global provider of data communications and interoperability solutions, delivering managed communications services to thousands of companies in retail, banking, financial markets and telecom services

Paul has over 20 years experience in the telecommunications industry and is also co-author of Wireless Intelligent Networking, published by Artech House. He has spoken at numerous industry conferences hosted by CTIA, IIR, IBC, the IEC, ALTS, and Telestrategies. Paul is a founding member of the National Verification Validation Forum, an open platform for owners of Telecommunications Line Information Databases. He holds a BA in Mathematics from Potsdam College, a BS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Clarkson University, and an MBA from the University of Rochester’s Simon School. Paul is based in the company’s office in Overland Park, Kansas.

Peter Tippett, Ph.D., M.D.

Verizon Business
Vice President Security Solutions and Enterprise Innovation

Peter Tippett is vice president of security solutions and enterprise innovation for Verizon Business, with responsibility for driving the overall strategic direction of Verizon’s industry-leading portfolio of security solutions, including product development and marketing. He also serves as the company’s chief medical officer and is the chief scientist of the product testing and certification organization, ICSA Labs. An information security pioneer, Tippett has led the computer security industry for more than 20 years, initially as a vendor of security products, and over the past 16 years, as a key strategist. He is widely credited with creating the first commercial anti-virus product that later became Norton AntiVirus. Tippett is best known for his creation of enterprise IT metrics, and large risk intelligence and compliance management programs for enterprises.

Tippett served on the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee (2003-2005) to guide U.S. efforts in health care IT, information security and computational sciences research. InfoWorld recognized Tippett as one of the 25 most influential chief technology officers for 2002. Tippett has a bachelor’s degree in biology from Kalamazoo College, and holds a doctor of medicine degree and a doctor of philosophy degree in biochemistry from Case Western Reserve University.

Don Thibeau

OIX Chairman and At-large Director

Don Thibeau is the Executive Director of The OpenID Foundation, an open community software identity standards organization representing leaders in Internet, enterprise and social media technology. He joined the foundation at the beginning of 2009 to represent the organization worldwide and position it for long-term growth. Thibeau has a rich background in the data, identity, and social layers of both the internet and the mobile computing channel. He has both enterprise experience and entrepreneurial management expertise in business models for data, analytics and web content. Thibeau has held senior management positions with leading organizations including Kodak, TransUnion, and LexisNexis. He was an original member of the Reed Elsevier Venture Fund. Thibeau is a frequent guest speaker and has testified before Congress on topics including data privacy and regulatory issues. He is a member and contributor to e-citizen.org, OASIS, a Booz Allen Distinguished Speaker, and former Presidential appointee and author of numerous articles. He lives in the Washington DC area. Thibeau serves as the Chair of the OIX Board.

Nat Sakimura

At-large Director

Nat Sakimura is the research lead on Digital Identity at Nomura Research Institute (NRI). Bringing Power to control his identity in the Cyber Space back to the People is what he aims at. He was a co-outher of OpenID Provider Authentication Policy Extension (PAPE) specification, the OpenID Connect Core and Artifact Binding specification, JSON Web Token (JWT) specification, XRD specification, and the co-chair of the OASIS Open Reputation Management Systems TC. He has been the elected member of the OpenID Foundation board since 2008 as well as the founding board member of the Kantara Initiative. He has served in various Japanese government committees and is currently a member of the (Identity) Information Coordination Platform Technical Working Group in the Cabinet Secretariat which deals with the forthcoming Citizen Identity system. Nat holds a M.SA degree in Economics from University of Western Ontario, and a B.A. in Economics from Hitotsubashi University, Japan. His interests include digital identity, privacy, distributed systems, music, and poetry.