Edentity

User-centric identity management is a difficult field, and Edentity is - as yet - too small to maintain all the necessary expertise in-house. We do, however, have friends, some of whom are experts in relevant subjects and have kindly agreed to join a nascent advisory board.

They are:

• Dr Nicholas Spencer now works as an independent consultant in the mobile field. Between 2001 and 2007 he worked for Vodafone, latterly as head of the centre for business mobility in the Future Products group. Prior to Vodafone, he worked for PA Consulting and BT.


• Professor Fred Piper is one of the leaders of the information security profession in the UK.  In a long career he: has led the development of the Information Security Group at Royal Holloway, University of London; has advised over 80 companies; has lectured worldwide; has written many academic papers; and is the joint author of several standard reference works.  Currently he continues to serve as a Professor at Royal Holloway, and is a member of the Scientific Council of the Smith Institute, the Board of Trustees for Bletchley Park, and the Board of the Institute of Information Security professionals. He is also a member of (ISC)2’s European Advisory Board, the steering group of the DTI’s Cyber Security KTN, ISSA’s advisory panel and the BCS’s Information Security Forum.

  In 2002, he was awarded an IMA Gold Medal for “services to mathematics” and received an honorary CISSP for “leadership in Information Security”. The following year Fred received an honorary CISM for “globally recognised leadership” and “contribution to the Information Security Profession”.

• Professor Jim Norton is the 'Senior Policy Advisor - e-Business and e-Government' for the UK Institute of Directors (IoD).  Also, and among many other appointments, he is an external member of the Board of the UK Parliament's Office of Science & Technology (POST), a council member of the Parliamentary IT Committee (PITCOM),  a Board Member and Trustee of the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR), and a member of the 'External Advisory Group' for the Irish Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg). He is a Visiting Professor of Electronic Engineering at Sheffield University, and a Fellow of the British Computer Society (BCS).

  Among many past activities he was UK country-head for Deutsche Telecom, led the Cabinet Office team that produced the PIU report ' This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ' for the Prime Minister in September 1999, and was the Chief Executive of the DTI Radiocommunications Agency (the UK's radio spectrum manager 1993-1998).