Board of Advisors

Blue Spike's Board of Advisors

The company's board draws from a number of disciplines fundamental to Blue Spike's mission. Among their number are lettered researchers leading their respective fields in information security and software design.

From the communications arts, Blue Spike has engaged as advisors renowned practitioners from the fine arts and broadcast media. Announcement of additions to Blue Spike's board of advisors will be forthcoming.

Mike Berry is a computer programmer specializing in audio and image signal processing. Mr. Berry led the development of Blue Spike's Giovanni digital watermark system, and for several years, created all of the core technology implementations for the Company. He studied Music Composition at Amherst College and Mills College and is the author of the award-winning software synthesizer GrainWave and the software effects processor Pedalfects. He has also written audio signal processing code for Mixman, Prosoniq, and Opcode.

Boggs is one of the world's most important living fine artists and perhaps best known for his work interpreting the image of money. Mr. boggs gained international recognition for his work when the Swiss embraced his drawings of Swiss Francs by allowing him to 'spend' them in exchange for all his worldly needs and wants, while the British and Australian authorities responded by arresting him for counterfeiting.

With works in the Museum of Modern Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Smithsonian Institute, and the British Museum, Mr. Boggs has managed to address and distill many of the difficult issues involving authenticity, intellectual property, and social recognition of value and worth. In a time when wealth is being created at an almost incomprehensible rate, Boggs' work captures the spirit and pulse of the dynamic times in which we live and his work is now taught in Art, Law, and Philosophy departments at many universities throughout the U.S. and Europe. Mr. Boggs' work is helping a new generation of students come to terms with the complex issues now facing society in it's effort to promote and protect advancements in the arts and sciences.

Stephen H. Caine is President of Caine, Farber & Gordon, Inc., a leading supplier of software design methodology, and General Manager of Gatekeeper Systems, a leading supplier of large-scale engineering-based internet solutions. Mr. Caine has over 30 years experience in managing large-scale software development projects and has been actively involved with the Internet from its inception. Mr. Caine has held faculty positions in the Electrical Engineering, Information Science, and Computer Science departments of the California Institute of Technology.

David J. Farber has joined the faculty of Carnegie Mellon as Full Professor of Computer Science and Public Policy at the School of Computer Science. He has secondary apppointments with the Heinz School and the Engineering and Public Policy faculty. Mr. Farber was the longtime Alfred Fitler Moore Professor of Telecommunication Systems at the University of Pennsylvania holding appointments in the Computer Science and Electrical Engineering departments, and served as the chief technologist at the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC"). Mr. Farber was responsible for the design of the DCS system and is one of the authors of the SNOBOL programming language. He was also one of the principals in the creation and implementation of CSNet, NSFNet, BITNET II, and CREN, and instrumental in the creation of the NSF/DARPA funded Gigabit Network Testbed Initiative and served as the Chairman of the Gigabit Testbed Coordinating Committee.

Mr. Farber's background includes positions at the Bell Labs, the Rand Corp, Xerox Data Systems, UC Irvine and the University of Delaware. Mr. Farber is a member of the US Presidential Advisory Committee of Information Technology and a Fellow of the IEEE and serves on the Board of Directors of both the Electronic Frontier Foundation and the Internet Society. He was a 10-year alumnus of the Computer Science and Telecommunications Board (CSTB) of the US National Research Council. He is a visiting Professor at the International University of Tokyo and a Fellow of the Asian Research Center and the Cyberlaw Institute, and the founder and editor of the influential electronic newspaper Interesting People with a readership of over 25,000.

Mr. Farber holds an Honorary Doctor of Science from the Stevens Institute of Technology where he is also a Trustee and serves on many companies' advisory boards including those of AT&T, COM21, Covad, Intertrust, Metricom and Torrent.

Brett Fasullo is a member of Omnirox Entertainment LLC and a strategic partnerships, IP commercialization, and telecommunications consultant. Mr. Fasullo has over 15 years of experience in areas of information technology, new media sales and product development, enterprise applications, asset management, and applied security. In 1999, he co-founded and served as COO of Digital Media on Demand (DMOD), a venture capital backed Software Company that provided secure collaboration, distribution, and commerce solutions for the media and communications industries. At DMOD, Mr. Fasullo managed the company's operations and was responsible for the creation and leadership of strategic alliances and partnerships, sales and marketing strategy and channel development.

Previously, he founded Surreal Records Multimedia, a consulting company that provided strategic planning for advanced technologies in the media and entertainment industries, and designed and administered websites. Earlier experience includes information technology positions at Little, Brown, & Company; Cambridge Computer Services, Inc. and Time Warner Trade Publishing. Mr. Fasullo has been a frequent speaker on new technologies and e-commerce strategies at media and entertainment industry conferences.

Mr. Fasullo holds a BS in Criminal Justice from Northeastern University and is a co-inventor of a Secure Electronic Commerce System.

Dr. Yair Frankel is a member of TechTegrity LLC providing computer security and cryptography consulting. He has a wide range of experience developing risk management and security tools for technology companies and government and industrial laboratories. Previously, Dr. Frankel was Chief Technology Advisor to eCash before the company was sold to InfoSpace. Dr. Frankel also served as Vice President and Chairman of the Technical Advisory Board of CertCo Incorporated, where he identified and guided the development of CertCo's consulting business, providing expertise on common system rules, contracts and business practices for certification authorities. Prior to this position, Dr. Frankel was a senior member of the technical staff at Sandia National Laboratories. After receiving a technology leadership award, Dr. Frankel left Sandia National Laboratories on a three year entrepreneurial leave of absence to CertCo. Dr. Frankel was also as a senior member of technical staff at GTE Laboratories and served in the United States Air Force Reserves.

Dr. Frankel has a doctorate degree in engineering from the University of Wisconsin and a bachelor's degree in business from Western Illinois University. Dr. Frankel has published over 50 papers and has been a conference chair or co-chair for three conferences.

Jon Kabira graduated from International Christian University/Tokyo in 1982, after attending UC Berkeley during the 1979 academic year. Thereafter, he joined the International department of CBS/Sony, Inc., a joint venture record company, and was placed in charge of promotion coordination for International artists. Kabira's responsibilities also involved business affairs such as acquisition of distribution rights for International repertoire. In 1988, at the launch of FM Japan/J-Wave, Kabira was scouted to take charge of the morning show, Tokio Today. The show hosted by Kabira shortly grabbed the No.1 share for the male/female 20-35 listenership. Completing a successful decade of morning radio at J-Wave, Kabira, born 1958 in Okinawa, took a one-year sabbatical to study the International radio market as well as Internet radio and music distribution. Upon the request of J-Wave, Kabira returned to start a new morning show, Tokio One in Spring, 2000.

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