John R. Christiansen, Program Co-Chair, is a member of the Pricewaterhouse- Coopers LLP healthcare practice, primarily focused on IT-oriented regulatory compliance and risk management for healthcare payers and providers, to support the implementation and management of security solutions suited to their particular needs. His practice emphasizes information system acquisition and management, protected information sharing and management policies and procedures, security and privacy compliance, strategic partnering, contract and policy development, and identification and authentication solutions.
Susan K. Koeppen, Program Co-Chair is a Corporate Attorney for Microsoft Corporation in the Regulatory Affairs and Public Policy Section. She specializes in legal issues surrounding e-commerce, including privacy, security, cybercrime, electronic contracts, and encryption, providing legal advice to software and website developers on these issues.
Chris Apgar, independent consultant and former HIPAA Compliance Officer for Providence Health Plans in Oregon and SW Washington, is a nationally recognized data security, privacy, transaction & code sets & HIPAA expert. He is a member of the HIPAA Compliance Insider Advisory Board, the Security Compliance Insider Advisory Board, the URAC Privacy Advisory Committee, and chairs the Oregon HIPAA Forum Transaction & Code Set subcommittee.
Albert P. Barsocchini, the Director of Professional Services NW for Guidance Software, Inc., is an attorney and recognized expert in computer law, electronic discovery and computer forensics. He has consulted with law firms and corporate clients on electronic data productions, electronic records retention policies, incident response, and electronic risk control.
Joseph M. Burton concentrates his practice at Duane Morris LLP in complex civil, criminal and appellate litigation. He is nationally recognized in the emerging field of Information Security Law where he advises and represents individuals and corporations regarding their rights and responsibilities in maintaining the security of digital information. His practice includes trade secret, trademark and patent litigation with an emphasis in cybercrime and cybersecurity matters.
Marc Eisner, Senior Project Manager of Electronic Evidence Discovery's Discovery Partner division, manages the company's largest Discovery PartnerÅ projects — overseeing EED's relationship with large law firms utilizing his project management, legal, consulting and customer interaction skills.
Emily Q. Freeman is the Vice President, Western Region and Executive Director of Consulting, AIG eBusiness Risk Solutions. She has been a principal drafter of cyberspace insurance products and senior consultant for e-business risk management. She participates as the lead facilitator for risk analysis workshops for major corporations with infrastructure and commerce applications utilizing computer networks and the Internet.
Mark C. Gary, of Bennett Bigelow & Leedom, P.S., represents hospitals, health provider organizations, and businesses in transactional, business formation, real estate, and general corporate matters. He also represents health plans in the regulatory arena and has expertise in information systems and software contracting.
Françoise Gilbert, a partner with the IT Law Group, focuses on significant technology, privacy and e-commerce transactions and counseling. Her clients include Fortune 100 corporations, as well as start-up developers of innovative software products or services.
Ken Himma received his Ph.D. from the University of Washington and is a lecturer in the Information School and the Philosophy Department. He also has adjunct appointments in the Comparative Religion Department and in the University of Washington School of Law. His specialties are legal philosophy, philosophy of religion, applied ethics, information ethics, computer ethics, and other philosophical issues arising in connection with information and information technologies.
Hoyt L. Kesterson, II, is a consultant specializing in securing electronic commerce and distributed systems. He has chaired the international committee responsible for defining X.500, including X.509, since 1986. He participates in the ABA’s work on legal aspects of digital signatures in electronic commerce.
Charles Merrill is a partner in the Newark office of east coast regional law firm McCarter & English, LLP, concentrating his practice in information technology law — particularly legal issues of information security, privacy and e-commerce. His practice encompasses representation of clients in a variety of industries, including health care, vendors of information security products, online securities brokerage, and the legal business itself.
Bruce H. Nearon is the Director of IT Security Auditing for J.H. Cohn LLP. He oversees the firm’s IT and application control audits of the AICPA, and directs the firm’s IT audit procedures for over 100 financial statement audits. He is also directly responsible for the Aon Insurance Company IT WebTrust On-line Privacy attestation engagement.
Raymond A. Pompon is the Network Security Consultant for Conjungi Networks where he focuses on the design and implementation of Internet solutions utilizing a variety of advanced security technologies and real-world organizational procedures. He also works closely with members of the federal law enforcement community to assist in protecting our National Infrastructure and bringing Internet criminals to justice.
Thomas J. Smedinghoff, of counsel in the Chicago office of Baker & McKenzie, a recognized leader in developing the law of e-business, author of the Illinois Electronic Commerce Security Act, and a U.S. delegate to the UN Commission addressing international e-business issues, serves as e-commerce counsel for companies, government agencies, and trade associations throughout the world. His practice includes a special emphasis on electronic transactions, digital signatures/PKI, and related security and privacy issues.
Steven W. Teppler is an inventor, attorney, as well as the Chairman and founder of TimeCertain, LLC. He founded TimeCertain in 1999 after having confronted first-hand the challenges posed by challenge prone-digital data content. He is a litigator, a member of the Information Security Committee of the American Bar Association, a co-author of a soon to be published American Bar Association sponsored treatise on Digital Evidence, and a member of the ANSI X9F4 committee, which is drafting trusted timestamping guidelines for the financial industry.
Michael P. Wilson is a Senior Manager in the San Francisco based PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP Information Security and Privacy Practice. He has 14 years experience working with prominent organizations to address their information security and technology risk management issues. In recent years he has assisted his clients with the key strategic issues associated with Information Security Planning, for example, outsource analysis, information security program establishment, information security effectiveness and performance monitoring, risk management and regulatory compliance. |
