President Rick Stephenson brings to Revere Security 30 years of experience in operations, finance, business development, and sales. Recently recognized by GreenTech Media as one of the 100 people you must know in the smart grid, he joined Revere Security in 2008.

 

Prior to joining Revere, Stephenson served in various capacities at Covisint, a technology start-up founded in 2000 and acquired by Compuware Corporation in 2004. His leadership roles included chief operating officer, vice president of finance, vice president of partners and alliances, strategic account manager, and managing director of European operations. Stephenson was a 20-year finance veteran at General Motors. At GM, he held executive roles in international finance and corporate finance. Stephenson also worked on the start-up of Saturn in the early 1990s and, prior to that, the start-up of other automotive plants and operations.

Mr. Stephenson holds a master's degree in business administration from Vanderbilt University and bachelor's degree in accounting from Ball State University.

Dr. Diffie is best known for the invention of public-key cryptography, which he developed along with Martin Hellman, Ralph Merkle, and others in the mid-1970s. He introduced a radically new method for distributing cryptographic keys that went a long way toward solving one of the fundamental problems of cryptography: key distribution. It has become known as the Diffie-Hellman key exchange, adopted by the U.S. Department of Defense.

Prior to joining Revere, Dr. Diffie served as chief security officer and vice president for Sun Microsystems. There, he achieved the status of Sun Fellow and Distinguished Engineer and worked primarily on public policy aspects of cryptography. Dr. Diffie was also manager of secure systems research for Northern Telecom and is a visiting professor at the Information Security Group based at Royal Holloway, University of London.

Dr. Diffie holds a bachelor's of science degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and was awarded a doctorate in technical sciences (Honoris Causa) by the ETH Zurich in 1992. He is also a fellow of the Marconi Foundation and visiting fellow of the Isaac Newton Institute. He has received various awards from a number of organizations, including IEEE, The Electronic Frontiers Foundation, NIST, NSA, the Franklin Institute, and ACM. In July 2008, he was also awarded a Degree of Doctor of Science (Honoris Causa) by Royal Holloway, University of London. In 2010, Dr. Diffie was awarded a lifetime achievement award at the RSA Conference in San Francisco for his contributions to the field of cryptography, public policy, and information security.

Dr. Daniel W. Engels is responsible for the technology vision of Revere Security. In this role, he formulates Revere's strategy for innovation and technology development, including securing communications and key management system architectures.

Dr. Engels is a world-renowned researcher and expert in radio frequency identification (RFID) technologies involving security, performance characterization, environmental modeling, and protocols. He is one of the principal architects of the Electronic Product Code (EPC) System, a system designed to connect physical objects to the Internet.

Prior to joining Revere Security, Dr. Engels served as research director of the MIT Auto-ID Labs and was the director of protocols for its predecessor, the Auto-ID Center.

Dr. Engel holds a B.S. degree from the University at Buffalo, a M.S. degree from UC Berkeley and a doctorate from MIT. He is currently a visiting fellow at the Lyle School of Engineering at Southern Methodist University in Dallas, TX.

Chris Hanebeck serves as vice president of product management and marketing at Revere Security. He has 18 years of extensive marketing and product management experience in management consulting, strategy development, solution design, software implementation, and technology innovation.

Prior to joining Revere, Chris led the IBM industrial sector consulting practice for RFID and served as the director of enterprise applications at GlobeRanger. He has successfully completed technology implementations for more than 60 clients on three continents, authored well over 50 publications, holds several U.S. patents on RFID and wireless technology, and regularly speaks at major technology and management conferences.

Chris is a member of the marketing and logistics faculty at the University of North Texas in Denton, where he teaches courses on supply chain strategy and enterprise resource planning. He earned an MBA in Marketing and Strategic Management from the University of Saarland in Germany.

Eric Smith is the principal inventor of Revere Security’s revolutionary Hummingbird algorithm and co-inventor of Revere Security’s Rapid Search Protocol.

Prior to joining the Revere team, Smith was named the inventor on more than 10 patents and patent applications. He has provided novel solutions for securing SCADA applications and securing telemetry communications for the Missile Defense Agency. Smith has extensive experience incorporating NIST approved cryptographic algorithms into various software applications.

For the past 15 years, Smith has led software development for secure email, file encryption, TCP and UDP packet encryption, and other Windows-based applications.

Dr. Markku-Juhani O. Saarinen brings more than 15 years of varied professional cryptography and technical security R&D experience to Revere Security. His academic research focuses on applied cryptography, especially symmetric cryptanalysis and security protocol research. He has broken several well-known cryptographic algorithms, resulting in more than 30 peer-reviewed publications and presentations at international cryptography conferences. His current research focuses on all aspects of light-weight and embedded system security.
 
After an initial stint as a cryptographer at SSH Communications Security, Dr. Saarinen worked for Nokia Research, NIXU Middle East, and several startup companies. He was involved in the development and standardization of SSH2 and IPSec very early on, which has been acknowledged in the relevant RFC publications (2451, 4250, 4251, 4252, 4253, 4254, 4419). Dr. Saarinen has also performed technical security audits and implemented major security software packages. Among other things, he worked as a PENTEST and Tiger Team specialist, a PCI DSS Qualified Security Assessor and a member of a cryptographic vetting team.
 
Dr. Saarinen holds a Ph.D. degree in Information Security from Royal Holloway, University of London and a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from University of Jyväskylä in Finland.