Founders
Ed Giorgio (edgiorgio@pontetec.com)
Ed Giorgio is the president and cofounder of Ponte Technologies. Prior to founding Ponte Technolgy, Mr Giorgio was a principal at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he worked on information security and infrastructure assurance issues for a variety of commercial clients and federal agencies. Prior to that, Mr. Giorgio had nearly 30 years of security experience with the National Security Agency (NSA). While at NSA, he pioneered developments in communications security, network security, and Public Key Cryptography. Mr. Giorgio is the only person to have served as both Chief U.S. codemaker and, subsequently, as Chief U.S. codebreaker at NSA where he directly managed 1600 mathematicians and computer scientists. As a mathematician, he designed and delivered the first public key based e-mail privacy and authentication system on the worldwide intelligence network. At Ponte Technologies he leads a company delivering strategic security services to government and commercial clients in the healthcare and financial services sectors. He also works with private security companies and sees them through their technology evolution and business development phase by bridging networks with academia, customers, business partners, and private equity firms. Mr. Giorgio is considered a leading authority on cryptology and has extensive experience in Internet security technology, encryption, security policy, information warfare, information sharing, privacy, and digital rights management.
Bruce Potter (bpotter@pontetec.com)
Bruce Potter is the chief technologist and cofounder of Ponte Technologies. Prior to founding Ponte Technologies, Mr. Potter served as a Senior Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton for almost four years where he lead a team focusing on emerging technologies such as wireless security, software assurance, trusted computing, and advanced computer network defense capabilities. In his role at Booz Allen, Mr. Potter served as a technologist overseeing a variety of client engagements as well as managing the day to day operations and logistics of his team. Prior to joining Booz Allen, Mr. Potter held several jobs focused on security and network operations including managing network and security operations for Network Solutions and CTO for a transaction processing startup in Anchorage, Alaska. Mr. Potter has coauthored a number of books including ”802.11 Security” and “Mastering FreeBSD and OpenBSD Security” published through O’Reilly. Mr. Potter also regularly writes articles and presents at a wide variety of security conferences. Mr. Potter is the founder of The Shmoo Group of security, crypto, and privacy professionals. Through The Shmoo Group, Mr. Potter assists with a number of open source projects and the yearly ShmooCon security conference held in Washington, DC.