Author Profiles

Anne E. Hoge is an associate in Wiley, Rein & Fielding's communications and cyberspace practices. She counsels clients on federal, state and international telecommunications regulations, transactions, and litigation. In addition, Ms. Hoge works on a number of cyberspace technical and content issues regarding the Year 2000 Problem and privacy and defamation law.

Robert F. Jones is Vice President, Product Management at AT&T Networked Commerce Services. He is responsible for managing the profitability of all platforms related to the company's network-based technologies, including AT&T's hosting and transactions offers. Mr. Jones also serves as Second Vice Chair on the Board of the Electronic Messaging Association.

Brian O'Higgins is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Entrust Technologies. Prior to his current post, Mr. Matthews was director of Nortel Secure Networks, which he co-founded in 1993 and has been involved in secure communications systems since 1985, when he initiated the development of a prototype secure ISDN telephone system.

Jeffrey Schwartz is Department Editor for Intranet Applications at InternetWeek and has covered messaging and collaborative communications technology for seven years.

Daniel Blum is a Principal at Rapport Communication. Rapport provides enterprise messaging, directory, and groupware consulting and information services to the industry. Blum can be contacted at dblum@mindspring.com.

Bob Martin joined Software.com from Coordinate.com, the Internet division of Banyan Systems, where he was Vice President of Business Development for Directory Products. Prior to his work at Banyan, he was Vice President of Products for Ontos Inc., an object-oriented database company.

Judith Fleenor is Director of Project Management for Silicon Reef, a full service online communications company specializing in Internet technologies. Ms. Fleenor has coordinated all aspects of Internet to the desktop for global companies. Silicon Reef develops corporate sites: Pacific Bell, MobileSoft, Potlatch Corporation, DHL Airways, and worldwide entertainment and events.

Tim Matthews is Product Manager for RSA's secure messaging and Java products. Mr. Matthews is actively involved in many standards efforts and has recently written articles on security topics for Java Report. Mr. Matthews joined RSA in 1995 as a System Engineer and prior to working at RSA, worked for Digital Equipment Corporation in Tokyo, Japan and Irvine, California.

Victor S. Wheatman joined Gartner Group in 1989, specializing in analysis of electronic commerce markets. His most recent research areas have been X.509 certificate authorities, secure e-mail, secure EDI, and the privacy and security requirements of health care organizations. He is President of the Northern California EDI Users Group.