Tim Brown

CA Technologies
Senior Vice President, Distinguished Engineer, and Chief Architect Security Management Business Unit

Tim Brown is a senior vice president, distinguished engineer and chief architect for Security Management at CA Technologies, Inc. He has overall technical direction and oversight responsibilities for the CA security products. This includes CA solutions in the areas of Identity Management, Role Modeling and Management, Server Security (Access Control), Data Loss Protection, Web Access management and Single Sign-on (SSO). With more than 20 years of information security expertise, Brown has been involved in many areas of security including compliance, threat research, vulnerability management, consumer and enterprise identity and access management, network security, encryption and managed security services.

Brown has worked with many companies and government agencies to implement sound and practical security policies and solutions. Recently he provided expert testimony at a hearing entitled “Cyber Security R&D” before the House Committee on Science and Technology, Subcommittee on Research and Science Education. Brown earned a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science from Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts and continues his education with the Wharton School of Business Executive Education program.

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.

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).

Andrew Nash

PayPal
Senior Director of Identity Services

Andrew is Senior Director in the Information Risk Management and Architecture group at PayPal. Formerly he was CTO at Sonoa Systems and Reactivity working on XML and Service Oriented Architecture processors. As Director of Technologies at RSA Security, Andrew worked on a wide range of identity systems and worked with the Liberty Alliance in the Strong Authentication Expert Group He is a known leader in PKI and Web-Services security markets, has co-authored of numerous Web Services security specifications and is author of a book on Public Key Infrastructure.

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.
 

Eric Sachs

Google
Product Manager, Google Security and CIO Departments

Eric Sachs has more than 15 years of experience in the areas of user identity and security for hosted Web applications. During his five-plus years at Google, he has worked as a Product Manager for many services, including the Google Account login system, Google Apps for Your Domain, orkut.com social network, Google Health, Google Security, and Internal Systems. Currently Mr. Sachs works with Google's CIO on an effort to move Google's internal systems to cloud-based technologies by leveraging the same developer tools that Google makes available publicly. As part of that work, he is involved with the development of industry standards for data interoperability, including OAuth, OpenID, and OpenSocial. Before Google, Mr. Sachs was CTO and co-founder of Interliant, which provided hosted corporate email services. While at Interliant, Mr. Sachs led co-development projects with both IBM and Microsoft to build platforms for hosting consumer and enterprise Web applications. Mr. Sachs graduated with a B.A. in computer science in 1993 from Rice University.

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

OpenID Foundation
Executive 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.