Technical Advisory Board

Dan Boneh, PhD, Associate Professor, Stanford University

Dr. Boneh heads the applied crypto group at the Computer Science department at Stanford University. Dr. Boneh's research focuses on applications of cryptography to computer security. His research topics include e-mail security, security for handheld devices, digital copyright protection, and cryptanalysis. He is the author of over 80 technical publications in the field, a co-founder of Ingrian Networks and Voltage Security, and a recipient of the 2005 RSA Conference Award for Mathematics. He received his PhD from Princeton in 1996.

Urs Hölzle, PhD, Senior Vice President, Operations & Google Fellow, Google, Inc.

Urs Hölzle was named Google Fellow after serving as the company's first Vice President of Engineering. In that role he led development of the company's operational infrastructure. Urs was a co-founder of Animorphic Systems, which developed compilers for Smalltalk and Java, and an associate professor of computer science at University of California, Santa Barbara. He received a master's degree in computer science from ETH Zurich in 1988 and was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship that same year. He earned a Ph.D. from Stanford in 1994.

J. Duane Northcutt, PhD, Chief Technology Officer, Silicon Image, Inc.

Dr. Northcutt is the Chief Technical Officer of Silicon Image. He is responsible for defining the company's technical strategy, and leads its Systems Architecture Group. He was Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, the Chief Technologist of the Internet Desktop and Servers Group, and the inventor of the Sun Ray product. He received a President's Award in 1995 and the first Chairman's Award for Technical Innovation in 2000. He received his PhD in computer and electrical engineering from Carnegie Mellon University.

Frank Artale, VP of Business Development, Xen Source, Inc.

Artale was a founder and CEO of Consera Software, a management software company, which was acquired by HP in 2004. Before founding Consera, Artale was vice president of the Windows Solutions Group for VERITAS Software, where he oversaw overall product strategy of the Windows targeted solutions. Prior to this position, he was a general manager in the Windows 2000 group at Microsoft Corporation, one of the many and varied product management and sales positions he held during his nine-year career with the Microsoft.