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The French-American Chamber of Commerce of San Francisco
proudly invites you to its High Tech Exchange Panel Discussion:

 

Internet Security: Will we get our money back?
Technical investment or business cost?
 

Wednesday, April 13th,
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Hosted by

Wilson Sonsini Goodrich& Rosati

950 Page Mill Road, Ter 2D, Palo Alto, CA
Click here for directions
 


 FACCSF Panel Discussions are quarterly events aimed at exploring High-tech industry trends.
They bring a panel of experts in front of an audience of Bay Area Senior Executives.
The events are moderated by an Industry expert and the format encourages exchanges between the panelists and with the audience.
Conferences typically attract upwards of 50 attendees and represent an opportunity for peer networking.
Past events have included "The Digital Home: are we there yet?"
"Wireless Broadband, today or tomorrow?",
"Voice over IP, Why now ?", "Trends in the IT Venture Capital Market",
"Next Generation Internet IP V6" ...
For more information, visit http://www.faccsf.com/htcommittee.html

 

Moderator
- Glenn Solomon, General Partner - Partech International

Glenn joined Partech in 1997. He focuses on enterprise software. Previously he was with SPO Partners, a San Francisco private investment partnership, and Goldman, Sachs & Co. Glenn holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller scholar. He also received a BA in Public Policy from Stanford. His investments include Bocada, Digital Island (acquired by Cable & Wireless), Ingrian Networks, Pentasafe (acquired by NetIQ), QuinStreet and Vignette (VIGN).
 

Speakers
- Brad Nightengale, Department Head, Emerging Products, VISA USA

Brad Nightengale joined Visa USA in March of 2000, and is presently a Department Head within Visa USA's Emerging Product Group. He is responsible for leading strategic initiatives, developing e-commerce solutions and emerging payment technologies, which position Visa as the preferred payment card for online transactions.

In his position, Brad manages the e-commerce channel for Visa USA, executing strategies to increase penetration of vertical channels and identifying solutions to such issues as phishing, identity theft, and authentication. In addition, Brad performs strategic analysis of Verified by Visa, an identity verification product that has become the standard for payment security and fraud prevention in the e-commerce market space.  

Before joining Visa USA in 2000, Brad worked for Citibank as a Product Manager, leading the development and sales of consumer products. His earlier career included four years as an Area Manager where he developed and led branch based marketing efforts within the Bay Area. Brad has a BS in Finance from Oklahoma State University and an MBA from Golden Gate University.


- David Perry, Global Director of Education, Trend Micro

David Perry, global director of education at Trend Micro, represents the company's Internet content security awareness endeavors through speaking engagements at industry trade shows and conferences. Recognized as a leading authority on computer virus prevention, Perry has more than 25 years of experience in the technology sector, which includes working with industry-leading antivirus vendors and educating the public about virus prevention. He speaks regularly at security events and with the media, and has co-chaired a conference at the White House on the topic of public education and critical system security.

At Trend Micro, Perry works to educate network administrators, computer users and the public at large about computer viruses and how to protect against them. Prior to joining Trend Micro, Perry served as technical support analyst with Peter Norton Computing, managed online support at McAfee, and was spokesperson at Cybermedia corporation.

While at Trend Micro, David Perry has spoken at several trade shows, including Comdex, and USENIX, has keynoted conference venues such as Security Forum, InfoSec and RSA, and addressed the National Security Council at a White House conference on computing threats. Perry has appeared on numerous national and regional television and radio broadcasts, and is and is often looked to as a resource by news agencies such as CNN, Reuters, Associated Press, The New York Times and The Washington Post.


- Karim Toubba, VP Marketing and Product, Ingrian

Mr. Toubba comes to Ingrian with an extensive background in enterprise security, managed services, and content delivery. Most recently, he was Vice President of Product and Services Management at Exodus, a Cable & Wireless service. Mr. Toubba had P&L responsibility for the $500 million Exodus integrated network, hosting, CDN, and managed services business. Previously, he was Director of Managed Services at Digital Island, a Cable & Wireless company, where he was responsible for integrating and aligning a global hosting, security, and managed services business. Prior to Digital Island, Mr. Toubba was responsible for establishing and growing the EMEA business for Whistle Communications, which was subsequently acquired by IBM. Mr. Toubba held prior positions in systems engineering and customer support with Whistle Communications and NetManage.


- David M'Raihi, Ph.D. - Principal Scientist, VSS, VeriSign

Dr. David M'Raihi is Principal Scientist at Verisign.  He recently authored the HOTP internet draft, endorsed by OATH (the initiative for Open AuTHentication) as a submission to the IETF for standardization of a one-time password algorithm enabling strong authentication for mobile users.

David is a recognized expert who co-founded Gemplus' crypto labs in 1993 with Dr. Naccache, current head of Security Technologies Department for Gemplus worldwide.  The labs have grown to nearly 60 software and hardware security experts.  He was the lead architect and project manager for smart VISA Access, a secure solution designed for authentication and access control of banking applications.  David was appointed Director of Technology with Gemplus' Corporate Development in 2000.  He led technical due diligences, identified and qualified investment opportunities for Gemplus' venture capital group, participated in divestiture operations and served as technical project leader for Joint Ventures and strategic Alliances.

Dr. M'Raihi has been involved in the design, development, audit and certification of secure schemes and software applications and systems for almost 15 years.  He has authored and co-authored numerous papers and patents encompassing software protection, fast encryption algorithms, public-key authentication methods and digital signature techniques.

Dr. M'Raihi completed his Ph.D. in Cryptography under the supervision of Jacques Stern, Director of the Computer Science Department of the Ecole Normale Superieure (Paris, France).


- Daniel Chatelain, CEO, Bozca - Bay Area start-up, secure wireless transactions

Daniel started his career more than twenty years ago as a pioneer of the Minitel, focusing on banking, telecommunication and media services. He is a serial entrepreneur and has launched several technology ventures within the EADS Group (Airbus, Ariane Espace, Eurocopter) and the Lagardere Group (Elle, Womans Day, Car & Driver, Hachette, Canal Satellite). Most recently, he founded Bozca Corporation in San Francisco, an upcoming player in the wireless security and payment field. Daniel Chatelain graduated in 1982 from the University of France with master's degrees in physics and mathematics, and a specialty in semiconductors. He is on advisory boards of several startups in the Silicon Valley and Europe.

 


REGISTRATION

French American Chamber of Commerce
info@faccsf.com

Tel: 415 442 4717 / Fax: 415 442 4621
703 Market Street, Suite 450 - San Francisco, CA 94103

The price includes
attendance cost, covering conference and wine.

 


Members


$25

 

Pre-registration is now closed !


$40 at the door
 

Non-Members

$35

 

Pre-registration is now closed !


$40 at the door


 

 
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