Paul Trevithick is Chief Technology Officer and chief operating officer of PanGenX, Founder and Chair of Azigo, and an advisor to early stage startups.
Background
He grew up in Ottawa, Canada, attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science in 1981 and was a research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Laboratory in 1981 and 1982.
Career
Paul Trevithick"s ancestry is Cornish. The name Trevithick means "Budic"s homestead" in the Cornish language. In 1981, he co-founded Lightspeed Computers which was ultimately acquired by DuPont.
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 International Telecommunication Union-T standards efforts. 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 United States 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 chairman In 2009 he co-founded and was a co-chair of the Kantara Initiative Universal Login User Experience Working Group. Trevithick led the development of the Experimental Laboratory for Investigating Collaboration, Information-sharing, and Trust (ELICIT) web-based platform under contract to the United States Department of Defense (OASD/NII) Command and Control Research Program (CCRP).
ELICIT is a tool used in social science research.
In 2009, Trevithick founded Azigo and remains its chairman. In October 2012 he joined PanGenX served as its Chief Technology Officer and chief operating officer until August, 2013.
He joined EPAM Systems, Incorporated. in December 2013 and is currently a Director of Business Solutions.
Membership
Trevithick is a past member of the Kantara Leadership Council and a steward of Identity Commons.