Biography:Paul Trevithick

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Paul Trevithick
Paul Trevithick at the Internet Identity Workshop 2006.jpg
Paul Trevithick at the Internet Identity Workshop 2006
Born
Winston-Salem, North Carolina United States of America
Alma materMIT
OccupationSoftware Entrepreneur

Paul Trevithick is CTO and COO of PanGenX, Founder and Chair of Azigo, and an advisor to early stage startups.

Education and career

He grew up in Ottawa, Canada, attended MIT, and received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science in 1981 and was a research assistant at the MIT Media Lab in 1981 and 1982. In 1981, he co-founded Lightspeed Computers which was ultimately acquired by DuPont. He was CEO and co-founder in 1985 of Archetype, Inc. which became the Pageflex division of Bitstream Inc. in April 1997. Trevithick then served as Bitstream's vice president of marketing, and starting in August 1998 its president.[1]

Trevithick has contributed to World Wide Web Consortium, PODI,[2] Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), and ITU-T standards efforts. He was granted the Seybold Industry Vision award in 1999.[citation needed]

From 2003 to 2009, Trevithick worked on open source identity software for Internet security, and privacy for digital identities and social networks on the Internet. He co-authored a paper on "Identity and Resilience" that was one of the 100 papers cited as informing the 2009 US White House CyberPolicy Review.[3]

He initiated and co-led what became the Eclipse Foundation's Higgins project.[4] Supporting this effort, he co-founded SocialPhysics project in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and co-founded the IdentityGang, a part of Identity Commons. In 2008 Trevithick founded the Information Card Foundation and served as its chair. In 2009 he co-founded and was a co-chair of the Kantara Initiative Universal Login User Experience Working Group.[5] Trevithick is a past member of the Kantara Leadership Council and a steward of Identity Commons.

Trevithick led the development of the Experimental Laboratory for Investigating Collaboration, Information-sharing, and Trust (ELICIT) [6] web-based platform under contract to the United States Department of Defense (OASD/NII) Command and Control Research Program (CCRP).[7] ELICIT is a tool used in social science research.[8][9]

In 2009, Trevithick founded Azigo[10] and remains its chairman.[11]

In October 2012 he joined PanGenX[12] served as its CTO and COO until August, 2013. He joined EPAM Systems, Inc. in Dec 2013 and is currently a Director of Business Solutions.

Footnotes

  1. ↑ Bitstream (March 21, 2000). "Annual Report". Form 10-K. https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/818813/000091205700015088/0000912057-00-015088.txt. Retrieved November 10, 2013. 
  2. ↑ "PODI". http://podi.org.  Print On Demand Initiative website
  3. ↑ "Identity and Resilience". April 22, 2009. http://www.whitehouse.gov/files/documents/cyber/The%20Information%20Card%20Foundation%20-%20IDENTITY%20AND%20RESILIENCE.pdf. Retrieved November 10, 2013. 
  4. ↑ "Higgins Team". Higgins website. http://www.eclipse.org/higgins/team-leaders.php. Retrieved November 10, 2013. 
  5. ↑ ULX home page
  6. ↑ "Experimental Laboratory for Investigating Collaboration, Information-sharing, and Trust". CCRP website. http://www.dodccrp.org/html4/elicit.html. Retrieved November 10, 2013. 
  7. ↑ "Command and Control Research Program". CCRP. http://www.dodccrp.org. Retrieved November 10, 2013. 
  8. ↑ "Want to Brainstorm New Ideas? Then Limit Your Online Connections". NYTimes. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/07/04/want-to-brainstorm-new-ideas-then-limit-your-online-connections/?_php=true&_type=blogs&_r=0. 
  9. ↑ "Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces". Social Science Research Network. 
  10. ↑ "Azigo". http://azigo.com. 
  11. ↑ "Azigo Team". Company web site promotional biographies. http://azigo.com/company/#team. Retrieved November 10, 2013. 
  12. ↑ "PanGenX". http://pangenx.com. 

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