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Bridgeway Systems has assembled an outstanding group of leaders to help guide Bridgeway and its clients. Here are the profiles of those leaders:
William P. Crowell served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Santa Clara, California-based Cylink Corporation, a leading provider of e-business security solutions from November 1998 to February 2003, when Cylink was acquired by SafeNet, Inc., a Baltimore based VPN technology and product company. Crowell came to Cylink from the National Security Agency, where he held a series of senior positions, including Deputy Director of Operations and the Deputy Director of the Agency. From 1989 to 1990, Crowell served as a vice president at Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corporation, now a subsidiary of Titan Systems, leading business development in space technology, signal processing and intelligence systems.
In April 1999, Crowell was appointed to the President's Export Council (PEC), which advised the administration on trade and export policy. He served as chairman of the PEC Subcommittee on Encryption, which worked with the Administration, Congress and private industry to substantially loosen restrictions on the export of encryption products and technology. He continues to serve on PEC subcommittee for export administration. In March 2001, the Secretary of Defense appointed Crowell to a federal advisory committee that conducted a comprehensive review of the U. S. Nuclear Command and Control System.
Since 9/11 he has served on the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Task Force on Terrorism and Deterrence, the National Research Council Committee on Science and Technology for Countering Terrorism: Panel on Information Technology, the Silicon Valley Blue Ribbon Task Force on Aviation Security and Technology, and the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, which published two landmark studies on Homeland Security. Crowell is an expert on network and information security issues. He has been quoted in many trade and business publications including the Wall Street Journal, Business Week, USA Today, Information Week, Network World, Computer World, Federal Computer Week, CIO Magazine and the San Jose Mercury News. Crowell has also appeared on CBS MarketWatch, CNET News, CNBC and KNTV's Silicon Valley Business. He was the technical advisor to the TV series, "Threat Matrix" during its run on ABC during the 2003 season.
Prior to founding the firm in 1982, Mr. Fliesler was a Patent Examiner in the United States Patent and Trademark Office, in-house patent counsel for the Communications Satellite Corporation (COMSAT), Washington, D.C., and a partner with Phillips, Moore, Lempio & Majestic, San Francisco, California. Mr. Fliesler was President of the Bay Area Intellectual Property Inn of Court and is Chair of the Model Patent Jury Instructions Working Committee for the U.S. District Court, Northern District of California. Mr. Fliesler holds a B.E. (Electrical Engineering) from the Stevens Institute of Technology, a JD from Brooklyn Law School, and completed postgraduate courses in intellectual property law at George Washington University Law School. |
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William P. Crowell, Bridgeway Systems Advisor. Mr. Crowell is an Independent Consultant specializing in Information Technology and Intelligence Systems. He also is Chairman of the Board of ActivCard, Inc., a Freemont, CA based identity management and authentication software company, a director of Broadware Technologies, an Internet streaming-video company, and a director of ArcSight, Inc., an enterprise security management software company and a director of Narus, a software company specializing in IP telecommunications Infrastructure products. In July 2003 he was appointed to the Unisys Corporate Security Advisory Board to address emerging security issues and best practices. In September 2003 he joined the Advisory Board at ChoicePoint, a data aggregation company.
Martin C. Fliesler, Bridgeway Systems Legal Advisor. Mr. Fliesler is a founding partner of Fliesler Meyer LLP, an IP specialty law firm based in San Francisco for 25 years. He counsels clients principally in the fields of computer systems hardware architecture, software, computer peripherals, data bases, semiconductor chips and chip sets including microprocessors, complex programmable logic devices, analog signal processors and graphics processors and many other technologies, all as applied to networks, such as LANs, WANs and the Internet, wireless systems such as cellular telephones and satellite communications, file transfers and microwave instrumentation. His practice focuses on developing strategic IP for high-tech companies, negotiating and writing transactional agreements relating to these leading-edge technologies, and the litigation of patents, copyrights and trade secrets.