MichaelGraves

From Identity Mashup

In 1998 Michael Graves founded Signio, Inc., an e-commerce provider of payment services for internet merchants. Signio was sold to VeriSign, Inc, where it grew to be the dominant provider for online payment services on the web. Since the acquisition of Signio, Michael has worked in a variety of technial and business development roles at VeriSign. He is engaged in VeriSigns’s research and development efforts that focus on universal identity systems for Internet applications. His time is currently divided between development of system architectures and community evangelism. Michael abandoned college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988 to work for Guy Kawasaki in what became ACIUS, Inc, a spinout from Apple Computer. Michael’s focus on compilers, crytpography and distributed systems led to development and architectural positions at a number of Silicon Valley software leaders, including Symantec, NeXT, IBM and Forte Software, prior to a sabbatical which led to the founding of Signio. Michael is the co-author of 4 patents related to PKI, digital identity and network commerce. He blogs about Internet Infrastructure at http://infrablog.verisignlabs.com.