Technical Advisory Board

In an ongoing effort to build on its leadership position in the emerging data privacy market, Ingrian® has brought together experts from industry and academia to form its technical advisory board. The technical advisory board’s expertise in such areas as cryptography, data management, and security, and its close ties to the technical and research communities will help to guide and prioritize Ingrian’s product development, strategic direction, and marketing efforts.

Michael Barrett

Mr. Barrett serves as president of the Liberty Alliance Project's Management Board. He is also vice president of information security and privacy strategy at American Express. Barrett has worked in the financial services industry for over twenty years, largely in the areas of information security practices and architecture.

Dr. Dan Boneh

Dr. Boneh brings extensive expertise in the field of cryptography to Ingrian. As a professor of computer science at Stanford University, Dr. Boneh leads the applied cryptography group. With his students, Dr. Boneh developed the ITTC Intrusion Tolerance System, short digital signatures, and identity-based encryption. The author of over 60 technical publications, Dr. Boneh holds a Ph.D. from Princeton University and has received numerous awards, including the Packard Award, the Alfred P. Sloan Award, the Terman Award, and several NSF awards.

Dr. Martin Hellman

Dr. Hellman is a professor emeritus of electrical engineering at Stanford University. Hellman is widely known for his invention, with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle, of public key cryptography. In addition to many other uses, this technology forms the basis for secure Internet transactions. He has also been a long-time contributor to the computer privacy debate, starting with the issue of the Data Encryption Standard (DES) key size in 1975 and culminating with service on the highly influential National Research Council's Committee to Study National Cryptographic Policy. Hellman and fellow advisory board member Dr. Dan Boneh also served on the technical advisory board for PayPal.

Dr. Jennifer Widom

Dr. Widom is a professor of computer science and electrical engineering at Stanford University. Widom’s current areas of research include query processing on data streams, data caching and replication, and database systems for semistructured data and XML. Before joining the Stanford faculty in 1993, Widom spent five years as a research staff member at the IBM Almaden Research Center. She has coauthored three books, is a former Guggenheim fellow, and has served on various program committees, advisory boards, and editorial boards.