Keynote Speakers
Jon M. Peha | ||
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Jon M. Peha is Chief Technical Officer of Cyphermint, developer of the Pay Cash Internet payment system and of publicly accessible kiosks secure enough to support e-shopping and financial services. Cyphermint is bringing financial services to people who do not have access to credit cards, or even bank accounts. Dr. Peha is also a Professor at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) in Electrical and Computer Engineering and in Engineering and Public Policy, and he is Associate Director of the CMU Center for Wireless and Broadband Networks. Dr. Peha's research has addressed both technical and policy issues of information networks and payment systems. He has served on technical staff at SRI International, AT&T Bell Laboratories, and Microsoft, and legislative staff in the US Senate and the US House of Representatives. He also launched a US Government program to assist developing countries with telecom, Internet, and e-commerce infrastructure. Dr. Peha has a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Stanford. | |
Simon Pugh | ||
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Simon Pugh is vice president, Infrastructure & Standards for MasterCard
International’s e-Business and Emerging Technologies group. In this role,
Mr. Pugh is responsible for MasterCard’s participation in smart card,
electronic and mobile commerce standards groups, as well as the infrastructure
necessary to support these activities, including smart card security evaluation.
Joining MasterCard in June of 2000, Mr. Pugh also works as a liaison with
strategic business partners to promote the development of programs to
support MasterCard’s e-Business initiatives. In addition to his duties at MasterCard, Mr. Pugh serves as co-president of the Mobile Payment Forum and is also chairman of the Board of Managers of EMVCo. (Europay-MasterCard-Visa). Mr. Pugh holds a bachelor of science degree in theoretical physics from the University of York in the U.K. |
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Ronald L. Rivest | ||
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Professor Rivest is the Andrew and Erna Viterbi Professor of Electrical Engineering
and Computer Science in
MIT's
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
He is a member of
MIT's
Laboratory for Computer Science,
a member of the lab's
Theory of Computation Group
and a founder of its
Cryptography and Information
Security Group.
He is also a founder of
RSA Data Security (now merged with
Security Dynamics to form
RSA Security)
and of
Peppercoin.
Professor Rivest has research interests in cryptography, computer and
network security, and algorithms.
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Jack Selby | ||
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Mr. Selby is a Managing Director at Clarium Capital Management LLC. Prior
to Clarium, Mr. Selby served as a Corporate Officer and Senior Vice President
of PayPal, Inc. (NASDAQ: PYPL). Mr. Selby was an original member of the
founding PayPal team, and served in variety of roles during his tenure at
the company, including the management of PayPal's international operations.
Prior to PayPal, Mr. Selby worked for GFTA Analytics GmbH, a Düsseldorf-based
financial consulting company which provides foreign exchange solutions to
financial institutions, multi-national corporations, governments, central
banks and institutional investors. Mr. Selby remains actively involved in the financial technology sector and currently serves on the Board of Directors of FreedomPay, Inc. Mr. Selby is a graduate of Hamilton College (NY). |
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Jacques Stern | ||
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Jacques Stern is a former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure (ENS) in Paris and has received his Ph.D. in 1975 from the Université Paris 7. He is currently a professor at the ENS and the head of CS Lab. He is an expert in cryptography, the author of over one hundred publications, and the holder of ten patents. He has been program chair for Eurocrypt 99 and an invited speaker for Eurocrypt 03. He is a member of several committees advising the French government. He has also served as a consultant for various firms and organizations. | |