David Challener, Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Lab
David Challener currently serves as co-chair of the TCG TPM work group; previously, he was chair of the TSS work group and has been a member of the group’s technical committee and board of directors. He is a co-author of a recent definitive book on the TPM, “A,” Practical Guide to TPM 2.0: Using the Trusted Platform Module in the New Age of Security.” Challener has contributed to the work of the TPM, TSS and other elements of TCG and its standards since the group’s inception. The Trusted Computing Group Board of Directors would like to extend their gratitude to David for his outstanding service and ongoing commitment to the organization.
Amy Nelson, Dell Inc.
Amy Nelson is an Engineering Technologist and Security Software Technical Planner responsible for Dell Data Protection | Encryption. Amy represents Dell within the Trusted Computing Group, chairing the PC Client Work Group and the Security Evaluation Work Group. Amy has previously been a Security Architect for Dell, with responsibility for Trusted Platform Module (TPM), encryption hardware, including Dell Data Protection | Hardware Crypto Accelerator, and authentication hardware and software. Amy has participated in assurance activities within FIPS 140-2 and FIPS 201 and Common Criteria for the last five years, serving as an editor for the TCG PC Client Specific Protection Profile for TPM 2.0, chairing working groups performing reviews of TCG specifications for FIPS and CC compliance issues, and presently serving as a Subject Matter Expert in the International Technical Community for the Collaborative Protection Profile for Full Disk Encryption. Amy has 20 years of experience in the PC industry and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Texas Tech University.
The Trusted Computing Group Board of Directors would like to extend their gratitude to Amy for her leadership and ongoing commitment to the organization.
Ronald Aigner, Microsoft
Ronald is a Senior Software Development Engineer at Microsoft Research. After receiving his PhD in computer science from the TU Dresden, Ronald joined Microsoft Research in the Systems Incubations group. Here he worked on operating system projects to explore multicore and heterogeneous architectures. Ronald then joined the TPM 2.0 efforts and has been advocating TPM 2.0 based technologies ever since.
Ronald is a valuable contributor to Trusted Computing Group’s PC Client Group Mobile Platform and Server Work Groups. Ronald has helped author numerous PC Client, Server and Mobile Platform specifications and errata that either standardize trusted computing scenarios prevalent in the industry today, bring existing scenarios into compliance with TCG specifications, or validate specifications by development of new scenarios. Ronald has significantly contributed to finding solutions that standardize existing and future implementations in ways agreeable to diverse vendors. His strong background in implementing trusted computing features has been very helpful to his fellow work group participants. The Trusted Computing Group Board of Directors would like to extend their gratitude to Ronald for his contributions and ongoing commitment to the organization.
Tomoki Aizawa, Insight International Corp
Will Arthur, Intel Corporation
Will Arthur is a Sr. Staff Firmware Engineer/Security Architect in the Server Security Firmware group at Intel Corporation. In this role Will leads a team of BIOS and firmware developers to enable security technologies on Intel server platforms, including Trusted Execution Technology (TXT), Boot Guard, and Software Guard Extensions (SGX).
Will has contributed as editor of the TCG’s TSS 2.0 SAPI and TAB/Resource Manager specifications and the code that implements them. He has admirably endured the work group process updating the specifications and changing the code. According to a peer in the group, “Our greatest progress in TSS 2.0 to date is because of Will’s contributions.” Will has also co-authored a TPM 2.0 book which is widely cited as helping enable TPM 2.0 technology through better understanding of it. The Trusted Computing Group Board of Directors would like to extend their gratitude to Will for his leadership and ongoing commitment to the organization.
Alec Brusilovsky, InterDigital Communications, LLC
Alec Brusilovsky is Manager, Security Standardization at Interdigital. He has extensive experience in security architecture, design, consulting and applications development for wireline, wireless and IP networks for key operator, as well as major vendor. His interests include security and privacy for the 4G/5G Wireless Networks and associated standardization issues. Alec joined Interdigital Communications in 2012. Prior to that Alec was with Bell Labs / Alcatel-Lucent for 15 years as well as with US Cellular (wireless operator). Mr. Brusilovsky is a co-chair of TCG Trusted Mobility Solutions (TMS) WG, active in 3GPP SA3 (security) WG, and ETSI NFV. In the past, Alec served as a co-chair of the IETF SPIRITS Working Group. Alec is IEEE Senior Member and is active in the IEEE Communication Society. He holds multiple US and international Patents.
Alec has contributed to Trusted Computing Group’s Trusted Mobility Solutions (TMS) and Mobile Platform Work Group for the past four years and became a TMS Work Group co-chair in 2014. Alec is the primary TCG resident expert on telecommunications standards – where he has been an active editor for decades.
Besides making valuable technical contributions to TMS WG, he personally negotiated the strategic TCG formal liaisons with European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) and is currently negotiating a TCG formal liaison with the International Telecommunications Union – Telecommunications Sector (ITU-T), at their request. Alec has facilitated the contribution by TMS WG members of text on TCG technologies (TPM, TNC, SED, etc.) into several ETSI NFV Security WG standards in progress. He coordinates liaison contributions and contributes to ETSI NFV and 3GPP SA3 (3/4/5G security) teleconferences and face-to-face meetings around the world and brings back summaries of issues and questions on TCG technologies. His leadership and ability to collaborate is evident through his gracious and patient manner with guests in both TCG and other standards group meetings. He not only brings knowledge from other standards groups to TCG, but even more importantly spreads knowledge of the advantages of TCG technologies to those other standards groups. The Trusted Computing Group Board of Directors would like to extend their gratitude to Alec for his leadership and ongoing commitment to the organization.
Ga-Wai Chin, Infineon
Ga-Wai is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Infineon Technologies where she has designed and implemented (countless) on-chip software for security applications (like TPM)for the past 7 years. Her profound knowledge of TPMs and the related security concepts were an important asset in achieving many security certifications such as Common Criteria and FIPS 140-2.
Ga-Wai joined TCG in 2011 and is an active member and contributor to the TPM Work Gorup, Infrastructure Work Group and Security Evaluation Work Group. She has assumed the leadership of primary editor of the errata documents for the TPM 2.0 Library Specification – a thankless job which takes continual work! She has also contributed errata to the Work Group, helping make certain the TPM 2.0 specification is accurate and without flaws. The Trusted Computing Group Board of Directors would like to extend their gratitude to Ga-Wai for her contributions and ongoing commitment to the organization.
Hiroyuki Koike, Intel Corporation
Hiroyuki Koike is a Senior System Consultant for Intel Architecture Technology Group at Intel Corporation. Hiroyuki joined Intel as a systems engineer, and has been working closely with PC manufacturers, Software developers, System Integrators, and Enterprise IT in multiple areas such as network hardware, Client PC management software, Server management specification (i.e. IPMI), Infiniband, EFI and Security for 20 years. Prior to joining Intel, Hiroyuki was a systems engineer and a systems consultant for INTEC Co. Ltd., where he worked for application systems design, development, and also provided consultation service for local area network and internal systems of multiple companies for nine years.
Hiroyuki has been a key active contributor to the Trusted Computing Group’s Japan Regional Forum (JRF). JRF has maintained a TCG technology demonstration booth in Intel’s Tokyo office since 2008. Its demonstration systems are renewed every 3 years, and were updated in 2015 including the TPM application for Data Center. Hiroyuki led the prototype development; the system architect, collaborating with the volunteers (programmers) to build up as single system and launched successfully at the demonstration booth. His six months of dedicated work made the system renewal possible, allowing the continuation of TPM technology promotion in Japan. The Trusted Computing Group Board of Directors would like to extend their gratitude to Hiroyuki for his contributions and ongoing commitment to the organization.
Xin Liu, Nationz Technologies, Inc.
Xin Liu is Product Director of Security Chip Department at Nationz Technologies, Inc. Since joining Nationz in 2008, Xin has successfully developed a number of Trusted Computing security chips successfully used in many OEM’s products. Xin has over 9 years of experience in the Trusted Computing security chip industry, and is committed to the promotion of the industrialization of the Trusted Computing technology.
Xin is currently the co-chair of Trusted Computing Group’s Greater China Regional Forum (GCRF) and a participant in the TPM Work Group. Xin has helped promote Trusted Computing technologies in China and has been a strong advocate for TPM 2.0. He has attended many Trusted Computing conferences and has done numerous presentations on TPM 2.0 to illustrate how the current standard meets the needs of both the international market and the domestic Chinese market. His participation in TCG and his technical knowledge regarding TPM has been a positive example of the global nature of the organization and the ability for local experts to be leaders. The Trusted Computing Group Board of Directors would like to extend their gratitude to Xin for his leadership and ongoing commitment to the organization.
Ira McDonald, High North Inc.
Ira is the founder and President of High North Inc. a software consulting firm, specializing in network software design and development, network security, network management, embedded systems, mobile devices, and printing systems. Ira currently participates in TCG as an Invited Expert.
Ira has contributed to Trusted Computing Group’s Mobile Platform Work Group (MPWG), Trusted Mobility Solutions (TMS) Work Group, Trusted Network Communications (TNC) Work Group, and Embedded Systems (EmSys) Work Group. According to a group peer Ira’s contributions have been “priceless and too many to name.” In recent years, they have included editorial and/or major contributor roles in the TPM 2.0 Mobile Common Profile, TPM 2.0 Mobile Command Response Buffer (CRB), TPM 2.0 Mobile Reference Architecture, Multiple Stakeholder Model, TPM 2.0 Automotive Thin Profile, and various use case documents within the MPWG and TMS. Ira has also encouraged and facilitated formal liaison agreements between TCG and the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) and the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA). In addition, Ira is keen at following the technical detail of documents with a mind for technical goals of the TCG as a whole to recognize any inconsistencies with other groups and unify our efforts. In this way, Ira makes a unique contribution to the collaborative efforts of the TCG. The Trusted Computing Group Board of Directors would like to extend their gratitude to Ira for his contributions and ongoing commitment to the organization.
Seiji Munetoh, IBM
Seiji Munetoh is an Advisory Researcher at IBM Research – Tokyo. He received his MSc degree from the Department of Electronic Engineering, Tohoku University in 1992, and has since been employed as a researcher at IBM Research – Tokyo. His research interests include information security, trusted computing and security engineering of software development.
Seiji has been a key active member of the Trusted Computing Group’s Japan Regional Forum (JRF). A founding participant of the JRF, Seiji has worked closely with the JRF co-chairs especially contributing to the group with his deep TPM knowledge and experience of enabling several features using TPM. In the summer of 2015 Seiji led the JRF’s technical seminar which was offered to TCG members, non-members, and university students to study and deeply understand TPM 2.0. He coordinated JRF voluntary team members to plan the event, recruited the participants, organized several seminar meetings and ran each meeting. During the event he helped drive the technical discussion based on his deep understanding and experiences. Seiji’s outstanding efforts were the key factor to the seminar’s success. The Trusted Computing Group Board of Directors would like to extend their gratitude to Seiji for his leadership and ongoing commitment to the organization.
Charles Schmidt, The MITRE Corporation
Charles Schmidt is a Principal Information Security Engineer at the MITRE Corporation. In his 15 years at MITRE he has worked on a range of topics including autonomous agents, security policy development, cyber attack characterization, cyber resiliency techniques, and security automation. Charles holds a Bachelors degree in both Mathematics and Computer Science from Carleton College and a Masters degree in Computer Science from the University of Utah.
Charles joined Trusted Computing Group’s TNC Work Group (WG) in June 2011 and has been one of the most consistent participants in TNC WG and Endpoint Compliance Subgroup (ECSG) calls and F2F meetings since then. Charles is a specification author; technical expert; technical reviewer; and standards expert. He has been an invaluable, and at times the primary contributor, to many of the TNC and ECSG specifications. Charles has been the driving force in getting ECSG work completed as well as updating many of the TNC specs and documents including the updated charter, architecture and design documents. Charles also provided his incredible insights and knowledge toward other projects within TNC for example, EISF and TNC Operations. Charles brings that rare combination of deep technical knowledge, deep provocative perspectives and an ability to get work done in terms of specifications and diagrams and technical documents. Above all, one of the most important and effective contributions Charles brings is his ability to listen to every perspective, find key messages from everyone, and effectively steer toward group consensus while ensuring everyone is heard. According to his group peer Atul Shah of Microsoft, “I have always felt that Charles is the embodiment of what an effective standards body contributor and leader should be. TNC could not have done all that we have in the past two-three years had it not been for Charles Schmidt.” The Trusted Computing Group Board of Directors would like to extend their gratitude to Charles for his leadership and ongoing commitment to the organization.
Grace Wei, Intel CorporationGrace has been a vital contributor to Trusted Computing Group’s ISO/IEC JTC 1 SC27 Subcommittee. Beginning with her work with the TPM 1.2 specification, she has been a consistent contributor for TCG’s PAS Submission efforts for nearly a decade. Grace also contributed her knowledge and expertise to TCG’s recent TPM 2.0 ISO standardization effort. She provided strategy guidance, helped author the TCG’s explanatory report, identified ways to make progress influencing ISO experts and coordinated effective outreach with ISO/IEC national bodies and experts. Grace’s insight, commitment, and expertise contributed significantly to TCG succeeding to gain approval to publish the TPM 2.0 Library specification as an ISO/IEC standard. The Trusted Computing Group Board of Directors would like to extend their gratitude to Grace for her contributions and ongoing commitment to the organization.
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