Greg Whitehead, Advisory Board Member
Greg Whitehead is an established authority on digital identity technology for web services and mobile computing. As co-founder and CTO of Trustgenix, acquired by Hewlett-Packard in December 2005, Mr. Whitehead was responsible for the architecture and development of the industry's first standards-based federation server and played an active role in the development of federation standards within the Liberty Alliance Project and Oasis standards organizations. Mr. Whitehead was named Top 25 CTO for 2005 by InfoWorld Magazine. Prior to founding Trustgenix, Mr. Whitehead was co-founder of Structured Arts Computing Corporation, which developed cross-platform tools for X.509 digital certificates and public-key infrastructure conforming to the IETF PKIX standard. Structured Arts was acquired by Signio in July 1999 and Signio was acquired by VeriSign in March of 2000
Mr. Whitehead previously served as a senior scientist in Apple Computer's Advanced Technology Group, where he developed protocols for mobile computing. Before Apple, he worked at Sun Microsystems on network naming and the OMG CORBA distributed object standard. Mr. Whitehead holds an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University where he worked with renowned distributed computing systems expert Dr. David Cheriton.