Author
Profiles
(Originally published in Messaging Magazine,
September/October 1999)
As Director of Product Management at Entrust Technologies, Chris Voice is responsible for the delivery of core product solutions, including Entrust/PKI. He has over 10 years experience in a variety of technical and business roles. Mr. Voice has a MBA from the University of Ottawa and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Royal Military College of Canada.
John Samuel is a Senior Manager at Entrust Technologies. Mr. Samuel joined Entrust Technologies in 1997 and has been involved with high technology communications products for over 10 years, and with security software products for over three years. He has a MBA from the University of Western Ontario and a degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Ottawa.
Colin Robbins, NEXOR’s Product Strategist, is responsible for the direction of NEXOR’s solutions, which includes identifying new markets for products and developing strategic technology and channel partnerships. Robbins’ has provided consultancy on an international basis in all aspects of pragmatic security, messaging and directory deployment.
Steve Petri is Director of Professional Services at Litronic, Inc. In this role and his previous role as Director of Smart Card Products, Steve has demonstrated proven expertise in bringing state-of-the-art smart card technology to real world products. Steve Petri holds a BS degree in Aerospace Engineering from Purdue University and a MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern California. Prior to joining Litronic, Steve was employed by The Aerospace Corporation where he worked for five years developing software for an advanced Military and Commercial Communications Satellite Simulation. This work involved cross platform development in a client server environment, with emphasis on relational database management systems and object oriented programming.
Robert Booker, Control Data Systems, Inc., manages program initiatives for global organizations in North America, Europe and the Pacific Rim. Mr. Booker has designed and implemented enterprise infrastructure solutions in the areas of information security, global messaging and global directories for major clients with recent emphasis in the financial services, insurance and manufacturing industries.
Christopher M. Van Sant, E-Commerce Analyst, IVANS, Inc., is always on the cutting edge of technology. Chris Van Sant has been solving business and technical issues for over 12 years, with nine years of experience with Internet technologies and seven years working with the insurance community. His experience encompasses e-commerce and EDI, imaging, LAN/WAN technologies and integration, system architectures and designs, and application development. He was the founder and architect of the IVANS MailConnect service, a managed messaging service facilitating secure e-mail, and has been instrumental in driving new applications within IVANS. Van Sant recently took on the role of implementing the IVANS Security Services offering which leverages PKI technologies to enable secure electronic communications across the Internet for the insurance community. Prior to joining IVANS, Van Sant worked for Nynex and was one of eight engineers, in a field of 120 selected in the country to market and troubleshoot complex network systems. He then accepted a position at Cigna, working in its information technologies group. Prior to that, he was a senior systems analyst at IBM where he worked on its messaging systems including Information Exchange, IBM’s EDI engine.
Cheena Srinivasan joined Mirapoint in June 1998 as its Vice President of Marketing after spending four and a half years at Network Appliance. He joined NetApp during the start-up phase and served as its Director of Product Marketing, and more recently, as its Director of Enterprise Marketing. Prior to joining NetApp, Mr. Srinivasan led the marketing efforts for SPARCserver clusters at Sun Microsystems Computer Corporation. He spent a majority of his six years at Sun in the Server Product Marketing group. Mr. Srinivasan has a master’s degree in Business Administration from the Sloan School of Management and a master’s degree in Operations Research from MIT, and a bachelor’s degree in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech.