Paul Trevithick

Paul Trevithick
Paul Trevithick at the Internet Identity Workshop 2006
Born	(1959-08-07)August 7, 1959 Winston-Salem, North Carolina United States of America
Alma mater	MIT
Occupation	Software Entrepreneur

Paul Trevithick is CTO and COO of PanGenX, Founder and Chair of Azigo, and an advisor to early stage startups.

He grew up in Ottawa, Canada, attended MIT, and received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science in 1981 and was a research assistant at the MIT Media Lab in 1981 and 1982. In 1981, he co-founded Lightspeed Computers which was ultimately acquired by DuPont. He was CEO and co-founder in 1985 of Archetype, Inc. which became the Pageflex division of Bitstream Inc. in April 1997. Trevithick then served as Bitstream's vice president of marketing, and starting in August 1998 its president.

Trevithick has contributed to World Wide Web Consortium, PODI,Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), and ITU-T standards efforts. He was granted the Seybold Industry Vision award in 1999.

From 2003 to 2009, Trevithick worked on open source identity software for Internet security, and privacy for digital identities and social networks on the Internet. He co-authored a paper on "Identity and Resilience" that was one of the 100 papers cited as informing the 2009 US White House CyberPolicy Review.

He initiated and co-led what became the Eclipse Foundation's Higgins project. Supporting this effort, he co-founded SocialPhysics project in collaboration with the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and co-founded the IdentityGang, a part of Identity Commons. In 2008 Trevithick founded the Information Card Foundation and served as its chair. In 2009 he co-founded and was a co-chair of the Kantara Initiative Universal Login User Experience Working Group. Trevithick is a past member of the Kantara Leadership Council and a steward of Identity Commons.