BillWashburn

From Identity Mashup

Bill Washburn earned M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Stanford University in philosophy (ethics) and policy analysis respectively. My initial tenure as a professional was in the university world at Stanford University as Associate Provost for Academic Computing and then at Colorado State University where I Director of the Office of Information Technology. In 1992 I decided to accept the position of Executive Director of the Commercial Internet Xchange and thereby shoulder the challenge to lobby the Federal Government to change it’s technology policy so that businesses and private citizens could begin to use the Internet. By the summer of 1994 this effort had succeeded and the governments plans to allow IBM and MCI to create a data internetwork monopoly was defeated decisively. After that I was Senior VP for Internet Business Development and led Internet World tradeshows globally for MecklerMedia (now Jupiter Communications). In 1997 I helped found RealNames and served as Chief Policy Officer. In 2000 I became President of XNS.org and in 2004 Chairman of the Board of XDI.org and I remain in that position. I have also been Executive VP for Communications and Business Development at Opinity since April 2005 . I am also a committed reader of poetry, a gardener, world music fan, and a meditation dance practitioner.