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| Management Team |
| Dr. Daniel Geer |
| VP and Chief Scientist |
An entrepreneur, author, scientist, consultant, teacher, and architect, Dr. Daniel Geer is also Principal of Geer
Risk Services.
Previously, Dr. Geer served as CTO of @stake, a leading digital security consulting firm. Dr. Geer also ran the development arm of MIT's Project
Athena, where his staff on his watch pioneered Kerberos, the X Window System, and much of what we take for granted in distributed computing. In
past positions as a consultant and an officer in a number of startups, he has provided industry leaders with high-level strategies in all matters
of digital security and in promising areas of security research. He is a widely noted author in scientific journals and the technology press, and
has co-authored several books on risk management and information security.
Dr. Geer has testified before Congress on multiple occasions and has served in formal advisory roles for the Federal Trade Commission, the National
Science Foundation, the Treasury Department, the National Research Council, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Department of Defense, the
National Institute of Justice and the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection.
Dr. Geer holds several security patents, and received an ScD. in biostatistics from Harvard and an S.B. in electrical engineering from MIT. He
serves both fiduciary and non-fiduciary roles for a number of promising startups. He is also past president of the USENIX Association. |
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