Paul Trevithick
CEO, Azigo

Paul Trevithick

Paul Trevithick is the CEO of Azigo (formerly known as Parity), a company committed to simplifying and securing life on the Internet by giving people more control over their digital footprint: their accounts, profiles, and relationships with friends and businesses they trust. Azigo also offers services to businesses to enable them to create durable, digital relationships with their customers.

Azigo offerings are based on the open source Higgins (http://higgins-project.org) project co-founded by Paul in 2003. Paul is frequently called on to advise industry, government, and academic groups on issues related to digital identity, privacy and security. He is the founder and chair of the Information Card Foundation (http://informationcard.net), and a founder of other groups in the digital identity space. Prior to co-founding Azigo in 2000, Trevithick was president and co-founder of Bitstream (NASDAQ:BITS). Before that he was a research assistant at the Media Lab and has a BSEE from MIT. He blogs at http://incontextblog.com