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David H. Holtzman
is a former security analyst and military code-breaker,
a futurist, activist, technologist, technology executive,
and writer. Throughout his career, he has led initiatives
that have radically changed the way people interact with
technology.
Holtzman is an Internet pioneer
who helped oversee the Internet's growth from its infancy
in the mid-1990s through the dot-com boom. As Chief Technology
Officer of Network Solutions and the manager of the Internet's
master root server, he ran the most critical network in
the world the domain name system and oversaw the growth
of the commercial Internet from 500,000 to over 20 million
domain names.
As Chief Scientist at IBM's Internet
Information Technology group, Holtzman managed the development
of IBM's information product and service offering to encrypt
and sell digitized content across the Internet called cryptolopes.
He also served as a senior analyst for Booz|Allen|Hamilton
for several years, where he ran technology-driven restructuring
initiatives for Wall Street firms and large financial institutions.
He designed and built a networked, heterogeneous database
and text retrieval system called Minerva, which was used
by NATO and several trade associations before being sold
to IBM in 1994.
Holtzman was CEO and Chairman of
Opion, a venture-backed start-up company he founded in 2000
and sold in 2001. While there, he developed and patented
innovative marketing intelligence technology. He has also
consulted on marketing strategy for several large corporations,
including Amazon.com, and served as a security advisor to
General Wesley Clark's 2004 presidential campaign.
A former cryptographic analyst,
Russian linguist and submariner with the U.S. Naval Security
Group, Holtzman also worked at the Defense Special Missile
and Astronautics Center as an intelligence analyst, focusing
chiefly on the Soviet Manned Space program.
He is currently President of GlobalPOV,
a firm he founded to explore significant tech issues in
more detail. Presently, Holtzman publishes daily comments
on topics such as Privacy, Intellectual Property, Business,
and Pop Culture on his blog: www.globalpov.com. His first
book, PRIVACY LOST (Jossey-Bass, Oct. 2006) contends that
privacy as we understand it has been changed forever because
of technology.
He has been quoted by major news
media, including CNN Headline News, Bloomberg Television,
BBC news, Scientific American, New York Times, Washington
Post, USA Today, Associated Press, and Business Week. Holtzman
wrote a monthly ethics and privacy column called "Flashpoint"
for CSO Magazine, and his essays have been published in
Business Week, Wired magazine, CNET, and ZDnet.
Holtzman holds a BS in Computer
Science from the University of Maryland and a BA in Philosophy
from the University of Pittsburgh, and is an honors graduate
in Russian from the Defense Language Institute.
The father of five children, whom
he raised as a single parent, he lives in Herndon, VA, and
spends part of the year in Prince Edward Island, Canada,
where he advises local companies on technology issues.
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