Forwarded with his permission. Reply to Austin directly. Thanks! Cheers, RAH --- begin forwarded text From: Austin Hill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'R. A. Hettinga'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Job description for C&C Biz dev lead Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:06:13 -0400 Hi Bob, As mentioned, please find the job description attached. If you can FWD'd this to interested parties I'd appreciate it. This person will be working closely with Ian Goldberg, Adam Shostack, Stefan Brands and our GM Products to role out the eCash/PrivateCredential toolkits and licence agreements. If you know of anyone qualified they can connect with me or the email listed below. Thanks, -Austin Director of Business Development - Cash & Credential Products http://jobs.zeroknowledge.com mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Position Description & High Level Challenges: In this position you will oversee the development, marketing and positioning of ZKS's Cash and Credential patents and toolkits. You will establish and develop customer accounts, partnerships and alliances that support the deployment the Zero-Knowledge Cash & Credential toolkits. You will work with technology partners in the electronic payments, public key infrastructure, smart card and mobile payments space to develop opportunities for our toolkits as well as work with marquee customers on electronic cash and privacy enhanced authentication projects. You will feel comfortable leading, motivating and managing a small team of domain experts, developers and scientists who will work with you to develop, improve and market the product. In this role you will report to the General Manager Products and Services as the lead of the Cash & Credentials product team. Position Requirements: As the ideal candidate, you will have proven your ability to successfully deploy and introduce new technologies in an emerging industry. You have a passion for privacy and security and: · A technical degree coupled with an MBA · Minimum of 7 years of professional experience which includes 5 or more years of Business Development and Technology Sales · Demonstrated success translating diverse partner needs into executable steps and products · Experience & a successful track record with strategies for deployment of new technologies and forming the proper alliances to introduce new products through technology partners · Functional market experience in the areas of Electronic payments; Electronic Cash; Wireless commerce; Public Key Infrastructure; Smart Card · An exceptional leader by example, whose self-confidence can inspire and motivate subordinates as well as peers · Proven ability to take calculated risks and make difficult decisions About Zero-Knowledge http://www.zeroknowledge.com The Company: Founded in 1997, Zero-Knowledge® Systems, Inc. provides the technologies that enable communication and commerce to thrive in a privacy-conscious climate. Combining industry-leading technologies, expert policy analysis, and informed business strategy, Zero-Knowledge delivers robust privacy-enabling services and technologies for both consumers and business. The company has become the privacy leader, and built the most respected privacy brand in the world, by taking a holistic approach to the privacy problem in the digital age. Its privacy policy, technology and business expertise is unmatched and the company's enterprise and consumer products set the industry standard. For enterprise customers, Zero-Knowledge builds systems that ensure business objectives are met while handling personal information in a responsible and secure manner. Its Privacy Rights Management (PRM) Platform is a customizable technology for all companies - from the Fortune 500 who are dealing with complex business issues to smaller start-up companies with less complex demands. Zero-Knowledge's enterprise privacy platform can accommodate varying levels of privacy needs (from legal compliance to consumer demand to a corporate trust initiative) and provide complete privacy for data acquisition, data storage and consumer-driven data control across all industry verticals. The emerging legislative climate and consumer privacy concerns have made privacy an essential element to any business. Based on these drivers the need for the company's solutions is immediate. The enterprise privacy marketplace is estimated at $40 billion and Zero-Knowledge is focusing its efforts on key verticals where new privacy legislation is taking effect and consumer concerns are greatest. Theses include financial services, health care and online marketing. Currently, the company has a relationship with PricewaterhouseCoopers and other leading system integrators and channel partners for both its enterprise and consumer offerings. For individuals, Zero-Knowledge provides a suite of technologies that control the disclosure of personal data at its source. The award-winning Freedom® Internet Privacy Suite protects and secures the privacy and personal information of Internet users. Unlike other software products that only address specific online privacy concerns, Freedom® gives users all the tools needed to simplify and secure their entire Internet experience - from a set of free standard features, through to a full range of privacy-enhanced premium services. Freedom reroutes user data through the global Freedom Network of servers operated by partnering ISPs around the world to provide a completely private Internet experience. With research reporting that "92% of consumers are concerned about the misuse of their personal information online" (Harris Survey, September 2000) and that "two-thirds of online shoppers feel insecure about exchanging personal information over the Internet" (Forrester Research, September 2000), Freedom offers consumers a practical solution to their online privacy concerns. The company is working with channel partners such as OEMs and ISPs to deliver robust privacy tools and services to individuals and is also leveraging the Freedom Network to deliver privacy products for both consumers and business. Zero-Knowledge continues to develop new products and services for emerging markets. The company's suite of patents pertaining to privacy-enhanced PKI, electronic cash and identity credentials are in the process of being licensed and productized. The company's intellectual property positions it to design and market the first viable private ecash system allowing for security/fraud protection against double-spending and money laundering, and off-line portability via Smart Cards (or other tamper proof devices). The company is also active in emerging technology areas such as wireless, where it is working with customers and trade groups to build privacy-enhancing technologies and services. Zero-Knowledge's technology, privacy and industry leadership has been recognized in leading media including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Red Herring and The San Jose Mercury News as well as on network news programs like 60 Minutes. Company Co-Founder, Executive Vice President and Chief Strategy Officer Austin Hill is a widely respected privacy expert and recently attended the World Economic Forum as a Technology Pioneer. Launched in Montreal, Zero-Knowledge will relocate its headquarters to the Silicon Valley area while maintaining its technology center in Canada. The company currently employs approximately 200 people and recently closed a $22 million third round of financing led by the Reuters Greenhouse Fund. Tamas Hevizi, formerly a partner and national director at Ernst & Young where, under his leadership, the firm's SAP business in the U.S. experienced 30% annual growth and revenues of $300 million, joined the company as its President and CEO in February 2001. Mr. Hevizi has successfully built businesses in both startup and Fortune 500 environments and has been instrumental in growing and managing enterprise software and service organizations. The Board of Directors includes: · Robert Shaw, Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Valley Internet Capital and the former Chief Executive Officer of USWeb/CKS · David Lockwood, Co-Chief Executive Officer of Reuters' Greenhouse Fund and the former Managing Director of the E*Markets Group for Goldman Sachs · Michael Santer, Co-Chairman of Silicon Valley Internet Capital and the former founder of Platinum Venture Partners · Hammie Hill, co-founder, CFO and Chairman of Zero-Knowledge Systems · Tamas Hevizi, CEO and President of Zero-Knowledge Systems The company also recently introduced an Advisory Board consisting of leaders in the privacy and technology fields: · Whitfield Diffie, Distinguished Engineer, Sun Microsystems Inc., co-creator of public key cryptography and co-author of Privacy on the Line: the Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption · David Farber, Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems, University of Pennsylvania and member of the US Presidential Advisory Committee of Information Technology · Michael Froomkin, Professor of Law, University of Miami School of Law and member of the "Panel of Experts" of the World Intellectual Property Organization's Internet Domain Name Process · Deborah Hurley, Director, Harvard Information Infrastructure Project, Harvard University and member of the Advisory Committee to the U.S. State Department on International Communications and Information Policy · Lawrence Lessig, Professor of Law, Stanford Law School and author of Code, and Other Laws of Cyberspace · Peter Neumann, Principal Scientist, Computer Science Laboratory, SRI and author of Computer-Related Risks · Bruce Schneier, Founder and Chief Technical Officer, Counterpane Internet Security, Inc and author of Applied Cryptography and Secrets & Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World · Barbara Simons, President, Association for Computing Machinery and member of the President's Export Council's Subcommittee on Encryption _________________________________________________________________________ Austin Hill Zero-Knowledge Systems Inc. EVP & Chief Strategy Officer Montreal, Quebec Phone: 514.286.2636 Fax: 514.286.2755 mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zeroknowledge.com PGP Fingerprints RSA = 7BDB A72C 1130 BC09 CD5A 2712 F51D 72AC DH/DSS = F783 7187 E174 0C5C DD4C B1FA 0392 C7DC AF5A 1FAB _________________________________________________________________________ --- end forwarded text -- ----------------- R. A. Hettinga <mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> The Internet Bearer Underwriting Corporation <http://www.ibuc.com/> 44 Farquhar Street, Boston, MA 02131 USA "... however it may deserve respect for its usefulness and antiquity, [predicting the end of the world] has not been found agreeable to experience." -- Edward Gibbon, 'Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire' --------------------------------------------------------------------- The Cryptography Mailing List Unsubscribe by sending "unsubscribe cryptography" to [EMAIL PROTECTED]