Paul Byers Trevithick (born 1959) is currently a client partner and senior director at EPAM, advisor to early-stage startups, technologist, privacy advocate, and entrepreneur.

Education

He grew up in

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, Canada, attended

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, and received a

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in electrical engineering and computer science in 1981 and was a research assistant at the

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in 1981 and 1982.

Career

In 1981, he co-founded Lightspeed Computers which was ultimately acquired by

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. He was CEO and co-founder in 1985 of Archetype, Inc. which became the Pageflex division of Bitstream Inc. in April 1997. Trevithick then served as Bitstream's vice president of marketing, and starting in August 1998 its president. Trevithick has contributed to

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, PODI,

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(OASIS), and ITU-T standards efforts. He was granted the Seybold Industry Vision award in 1999. Trevithick led the development of the Experimental Laboratory for Investigating Collaboration, Information-sharing, and Trust (ELICIT) web-based platform under contract to the

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(OASD/NII) Command and Control Research Program (CCRP). ELICIT is a tool used in social science research. In 2009, Trevithick founded Azigo and was until 2020 its chairman when the company was acquired.In 2012 he founded Swift Invention, Inc., a US-based offshore software development and systems integration firm. He joined EPAM in 2014 and is currently a client partner and senior director.

Work on information privacy and personal data

Starting in 2003, Trevithick worked on

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software for

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, and

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for digital identities and social networks on the

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. In 2004, he initiated and co-led what became the

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's Higgins project. Supporting this effort, he co-founded, also in 2004, the SocialPhysics project in collaboration with the

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and co-founded the IdentityGang, now a part of Identity Commons. In 2008 Trevithick founded the Information Card Foundation and served as its chair. In 2009 he co-founded and was a co-chair of the

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Universal Login User Experience Working Group. Trevithick is a past member of the Kantara Leadership Council and a steward of Identity Commons. This same year, he co-authored a paper on "Identity and Resilience" that was one of the 100 papers cited as informing the 2009 US White House CyberPolicy Review. In 2021 he founded The Mee Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to the development of open source, human-centric technologies that give people more control over their personal data. While at the Mee Foundation he published ''Identity Agents''.

Footnotes

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