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Andrew Csinger, Ph.D. Tel: 604 417-5997 |
Andrew Csinger has held a variety of executive management roles and advises senior management on technology transfer, market and corporate development, and mergers and acquisitions in the high technology arena. He holds several patents in internet security, biometrics, and related areas.
Dr. Csinger is Entrepreneur in Residence at the University of British Columbia and Adjunct Professor in the Cognitive Systems Group, where he divides his attention between fostering a culture of entrepreneurialism and lecturing on the subject of Digital Trust. He is advisor or director to several startups including Mobio Identity Systems, Inc (www.mobio.net), Minesense Technologies, Ltd (www.minesense.com) and A2B Fiber (www.a2bfiber.com). Andrew is on the Board of Advisors of ISSNet, an NSERC funded research network focused on computer and network security, and is a founding member of the Steering Committee for the Vancouver Institute of Visual Analytics, initially funded by a grant from the Boeing Corporation.
Andrew was EVP of Product Strategy and Development at Dategrity Corp., a spin-out from the Votehere Corporation, where strong privacy technology was developed to meet rapidly emerging compliance needs and enablement opportunities.
Andrew was Senior VP and CIO of Group Telecom from 1998 to 2002. GT’s successful initial public offering took place in March 1999. During this period, GT became Canada’s most successful Competitive Local Exchange Carrier, with 400,000 kilometers of fibre, 1500 employees in offices from coast to coast, a quarter billion revenue run rate and over a billion dollars in financing.
In 1998, he developed and operated the first PKI Certification Authority and Repository to be licensed under Washington State Digital Signature legislation. This seminal work influenced the later adoption of federal U.S. law (the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act of 2000, or "E-Sign Act"), and was an early model for the adoption by other states of the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act (UETA).
In 1996, he founded Xcert Software Inc., a technology leader in the emerging business of Public Key Infrastructure (PKI). Xcert was acquired by RSA Technologies Inc.
Andrew received his Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from UBC and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University. A Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC) Post-Doctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University, and a visiting scholar at the German Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbrucken, his work on artificial intelligence techniques has appeared in journals and conferences around the world. His research focused on user-modeling by computer in intelligent multimedia interfaces.
Andrew has been both mentor and reviewer for the New Ventures BC business plan competition since 2007, and participates in other initiatives such as the Ontario Research Fund review panel for the Premier’s Catalyst Award.
