Uniloc has engaged some of the world's most sought-after security experts as company advisors.
Rod Beckstrom
Rod is a highly successful entrepreneur, founder and CEO of a publicly-traded company, a best-selling author, avowed environmentalist, public diplomacy leader and, formerly the head of a top-level federal government agency entrusted with protecting the nation's communication networks against cyber attack. Throughout 2008, Rod served as the Director of the National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC) at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, where he reported to the Secretary of DHS, and was charged with cooperating directly with the Attorney General, National Security Council, Secretary of Defense, and the Director of National Intelligence (DNI).
As an entrepreneur, Rod started his first company when he was 24 in a garage apartment and subsequently grew it into a global enterprise. Rod also co-founded Mergent Systems. Mergent was a pioneer in inferential database engines and was sold to Commerce One for $200 million. He also co-founded TWIKI.NET, a company offering service and support for an open source wiki and collaboration software system. From 1999 to 2001 Rod served as the Chairman of Privada, Inc., a pioneer in technology to enable private, anonymous and secure credit card transaction processing over the internet.
Rod co-authored four books including The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, a best-selling model for analyzing organizations, leadership styles, and competitive strategy. The Starfish and the Spider has been translated into 16 foreign editions and is broadly quoted.
Rod graduated from Stanford University with an MBA and a BA with Honors and Distinction and was a Fulbright Scholar at the University of St. Gallen in Switzerland.
W. William Winokur
A twenty-five year veteran of Wall Street, Bill served as structured finance professional, trader and developer of computer-aided financial and mathematical models at such firms as Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, J.P. Morgan, L.F. Rothschild and Chemical Bank. During that tenure, his teams structured over $5 billion of complex, asset-backed securities and traded a variety of fixed-income derivatives.
Bill studied economics and physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.