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Dr. Michael Anshel – Founder and Advisor

Dr. Anshel is a security thought-leader and world-class mathematician with expertise in the field of cryptography. He has published and lectured extensively on new key agreement protocols and braid group cryptography. Dr. Anshel’s work, in association with Dr. Goldfeld, has included “the introduction of a new intractable problem, distinct from integer factorization or the discrete log problem, that leads to a new class of one-way functions based on the theory of zeta functions, and against which there is no known attack.” Dr. Anshel has recently delivered crypto-related presentations to MSRI (Berkley) Workshop on Number-theoretic Cryptography, RSA 2001, and the 8th International Wigner Symposium 2003.

Dr. Anshel has authored and co-authored numerous papers in the area public-key cryptography and is the co-inventor of five patents in the area of cryptography, zeta-one-way functions, and braid group.

Dr. Anshel has received numerous fellowships and honors, including the CUNY Faculty Fellowship Award 1985, a NASA-ASEE Faculty Fellowship 1982, 1983, and a National Science Foundation Fellowship 1963-1966. He has consulted with several corporations including AT&T Bell Laboratories 1986-1987, Delphic Associates 1983, Mathematica 1968, and Lambda Corp 1968 where he worked with the late Hugh Everett III a pioneer in quantum theory, game theory and discrete optimization. He is currently participating in an ATP-NIST funded Project involving Secure Email through the City University Graduate School.

Dr. Anshel is a member of the AMS, MAA, ACM, IEEE, and IACR. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree magna cum laude, Master of Science degree and a Ph.D. in Mathematics from Adelphi University in Garden City, New York. He is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at The City College of New York

You can learn more about Dr. Anshel at in the CUNY faculty directory or his web site.

Dr. Dorian Goldfeld – Founder and Advisor

Dr. Goldfeld is a world-class mathematician who has published and lectured internationally on a wide range of cryptographic topics and methods.

Dr. Goldfeld was a Miller Fellow at the University of California, Berkley and did post-doctoral work at Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel. He has been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study (Princeton) and has held professor (associate and visiting) positions at Harvard University, M.I.T., Scuola Normale Superiore (Pisa, Italy), and The University of Texas (Austin).

Honor societies and awards include a Sloan Fellow, the Cole Prize in Number Theory and the Vaughn Prize. Dr. Goldfeld has been the recipient of a National Science Foundation grant every year since 1976. In 2009 he was inducted as a Fellow of the prestigious American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

Dr. Goldfeld has lectured at over 27 conferences around the world and has published over 50 papers on cryptography and mathematic topics including applications of elliptic curves, quadratic fields, zeta functions, public-key cryptography, and group theoretic approaches to public-key cryptography. Dr. Goldfeld has edited and/or authored four books and has been the organizer of numerous conferences around the world.

He is the co-inventor of four patents in the areas of multistream encryption systems, high-speed cryptography, and cryptographically secure algebraic key establishment protocols based on monoids.

Dr. Goldfeld received a BS from the School of Engineering and a PhD. from Columbia University. He has been a professor in the Faculty of Mathematics at Columbia since 1985 and is a member of the American Mathematical Society.

You can learn more about Dr. Goldfeld at his Wikipedia listing and on his home page at Columbia University.

Brian A. Marks, J.D. Ph.D. – Advisor

Brian A. Marks, J.D., Ph.D., who serves as Special Counsel to SecureRF, has over twenty years of professional operational experience managing administration, finance, human resources, information technology, and legal affairs with start-up and emerging U.S. and international domiciled growth companies. He was formerly the Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel at G-Log, a global logistics software company

Marks is also a Lecturer at the Babson College, Economics Division. He earned his Ph.D. and M.A. in Economics, and J.D. from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, is a member of the Bar of the District of Columbia and currently holds Secret Level Clearance with the U.S. Government.

Robert E. Mansfield Jr., Brigadier General (USAF, Retired) – Advisor

Mr. Robert Mansfield is a retired Air Force Brigadier General with 34 years of experience in logistics planning, operations, and supply chain management. He served as the Air Force Director of Supply, and was the chief architect of the Air Force's supply transformation initiative to improve weapons systems' availability and manage cost.

Prior to entering private practice in May 2009, Mr. Mansfield was the Director of the National Center for Aerospace Leadership (NCAL) and Principle Investigator for the National Aerospace Leadership Initiative (NALI) at the Connecticut Center for Advanced Technology (CCAT). The NALI is an Air Force Office of Scientific Research funded, national initiative focusing on the critical role of the US manufacturing supply chain in the aerospace industry. He established the NCAL as a national resource in developing innovative technology and process applications in the areas of next generation manufacturing, modeling and simulation and workforce development for small to medium aerospace manufactures and the USAF’s logistics/sustainment capabilities at the Air Logistics Centers.

Prior to joining CCAT, Mr. Mansfield was Lockheed Martin Aeronautics’ Director of Global Supply Chain Services and also the Director of Global Sustainment for the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF).

Mr. Mansfield worked for the Altarum Institute, a non-profit innovation and research firm in Ann Arbor, MI leading the institute’s Supply Chain Engineering practice area.

Mr. Mansfield holds a Bachelor of Science degree (cum laude) from the University of Arizona in Business Administration, and a Master of Science degree from the Air Force Institute of Technology in Acquisition Logistics Management. He is a graduate of the Defense Systems Management College Program Manager's Course, and the Air War College. He is currently a member of several advisory boards and associations and is in private practice with defense and commercial clients.