Certicom Corp.

Mr. McKinnon has been a member of our Board since 2006. Since March of 2002, Mr. McKinnon has been President and Chief Executive Officer of Certicom Corp. and is a member of its board of directors. Mr. McKinnon was with Digital Equipment Corporation from 1981 to 1994 in various sales and senior management roles in both Canada and Singapore. Between 1995 and 2002, he was the CEO for the following private and public software companies; during 2001 Mr. McKinnon was the interim President and Chief Executive Officer of DWL Incorporated; in 2000 he was President and Chief Executive Officer of Novator Systems Limited; and from 1995 to 1999 Mr. McKinnon was President and Chief Executive Officer of TSX-listed Promis Systems Corporation.

As Chief Technology Officer, Bill Lattin is responsible for leading Certicom's technology strategy. He works with the company's engineering, sales and product management teams to support the launch of new products and solutions. He also plays a key role in Certicom's standardization and intellectual property initiatives. During the past nine years, Mr. Lattin was the managing director of SecureField, an information security consultancy that specializes in cryptographic product design and network security. Prior to SecureField, he was vice president and co-founder of Cylink Corporation, a data encryption company that served the global 500 market where he was responsible for cryptosystem architecture design, technology marketing, product management and standards development for the manufacturing, healthcare and financial markets. . He has been an active participant in the development of many of the ANSI cryptographic standards and is chair of the Standards for Efficient Cryptography Group (SECG), an industry consortium that develops commercial standards to facilitate the adoption of efficient cryptography and interoperability across a wide range of computing platforms. Mr. Lattin holds a BSEE and an MSEE from Stanford University and UC Santa Barbara respectively. He is also a CISSP.

Herve Seguin was appointed Chief Financial Officer of Certicom in April of 2002. He holds the responsibility of ensuring the financial stability of the company, as well as maintaining positive relationships with the investment community. Seguin has over 25 years in the high tech industry with extensive senior financial management and operations experience in transition and growth management, fund raising and strategic planning. Before joining Certicom, Seguin held the role of CFO with a number of high technology companies. At DWL Incorporated, a CRM software development company, he completed the largest cross-border high technology private financing in Canada in 2001. As CFO of InfoCast Corporation, a U.S. publicly traded Internet infrastructure company, he transitioned the organization to a new business model and raised equity in a bear market. Prior to InfoCast, Seguin spent six years as CFO of Promis Systems Corporation (TSE: PSW). During his tenure at Promis, he orchestrated several rounds of public equity financings and was awarded a prestigious Investor Relations Magazine Award.

One of the founders of Certicom, Dr. Vanstone is also a Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Waterloo. Dr. Vanstone devotes much of his research to the efficient implementation of the elliptic curve cryptography (ECC) for the provision of information security services in handheld computers, smart cards, wireless devices, and integrated circuits. He is the EVP Strategic Technology and oversees all research, which has generated 130 patents for the company. He also sits on the Board of Directors for Certicom. Dr. Vanstone has published more than 250 research papers and several books on topics such as cryptography, coding theory, finite fields, finite geometry, and combinatorial designs. He has won numerous awards, including . He is a co-author of the Handbook of Applied Cryptography and the upcoming Guide to Elliptic Curve Cryptography. Dr. Vanstone also holds the NSERC/Pitney Bowes Senior Chair of Cryptography at the University of Waterloo, where he is also Executive Director of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research. In 1998, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, Academy of Sciences.

As Vice-President, Worldwide Sales and Marketing, David Sequino owns the development of sales and business development strategies for product and patent licensing. He is also responsible for technology and solutions marketing, public relations initiatives and product management. Sequino has more than 19 years of sales and business development expertise, the majority of it in the embedded systems industry. As vice president, worldwide sales and business development at Teja Technologies, a developer of software platforms for multi-core processors, he developed the company's worldwide field organization. He also implemented a new sales methodology that resulted in significant improvements in quarter-over-quarter revenue growth and a tenfold increase in the sales pipeline. Prior to Teja, Sequino held senior sales management positions at Deep Nines Technologies, Wind River Systems, M/A-Com Semiconductor and Tektronix.

As Vice-President, Human Resources, Pat Griffin is responsible for leading the design, development and implementation of programs and strategies to recruit top quality employees to Certicom and ensure they have the structure and tools needed to successfully contribute to corporate goals. Griffin has 20 years of professional experience in HR and joined the company in December of 2002 as Director of Human Resources. Prior to Certicom, she held progressively responsible positions with Nortel Networks. In her ultimate role as Director, Human Resources-Recruitment and HR Process Design, Griffin developed a "new hire" program that increased new employee satisfaction from 55% to 89%, and reduced start to productive time from 2 weeks to 2 days. She received two awards for her achievements within Nortel: the 1998 "Presidents Award" for sound leadership, and "Manager of the Year-1998" for global team leadership.

As Certicom VP of Product Development, Ross Bennett is responsible for all product development activities for Certicom product lines. Bennett comes with 15 years of experience in the development and deployment of high-assurance data communications solutions for the wireless industry. He has been a key member of the Certicom engineering organization since 2000, and played an important role in the successful launch of several award-winning Certicom products. Prior to joining Certicom, he held a variety of management positions with high technology companies in Canada. He was a member of Excaliber Inc. an IT strategy and professional services organization engaged in the deployment of high end CRM solutions, where he lead highly functional project implementation teams. Previous to Excaliber, he held a wide variety of positions with Mobile Computing Corporation, a company that develops and implements wireless information management systems for the transportation industry.

Alfred has been a Certicom consultant since 1994. He provides technical consulting on research and core technology standards and serves as a liaison between Certicom and the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research at Waterloo. Alfred received B.Math, M.Math, and Ph.D. degrees in mathematics from the University of Waterloo in 1987, 1989, and 1992, respectively. He was an Assistant Professor of Mathematics at Auburn University (U.S.) from 1992 until 1997, before moving to the University of Waterloo where he is now a Full Professor of Mathematics. At Waterloo, he teaches courses in cryptography and mathematics, and serves on the managing board of the Centre for Applied Cryptographic Research. He is the author of Elliptic Curve Public Key Cryptosystems and co-author of Handbook of Applied Cryptography and Applications of Finite Fields, and co-inventor of the MQV key agreement protocols.

Dan joined Certicom in 1999. He researches various areas of cryptology and participates in several information security standards development activities. He also assists Certicom's product development and professional services teams to comply with standards and to implement secure products and solutions.

Adrian joined Certicom in 1995. At Certicom, Adrian works on the efficient implementation of elliptic curve arithmetic and provides general mathematical consulting. Adrian was assistant professor at the University of Bucharest, Faculty of Mathematics, from 1988 until 1991. Then he spent two years in the Equipe d'Analyse at University Paris VI, France, continuing his work in Banach spaces. In 1997, he received a Certicom Innovation award. His current interests are in the discrete logarithm problem, arithmetic of elliptic curves, algorithm analysis, and efficient implementation.

Darrel received an M.Sc. in mathematics and computer science from Mankato State University in 1982, and a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln in 1986. Since then he has been a professor of mathematics at Auburn University. Darrel is co-author of two undergraduate textbooks, "Introduction to Information Theory and Data Compression" and "Coding Theory and Cryptography". Darrel's research interests include differential and difference equations, efficient field arithmetic, and cryptography. In his spare time he contributes to GNU awk, part of the GNU project.

John joined Certicom in 1991, where he has served in a number of capacities, including product development, consultation, toolkit management, and customer support. In 1998, John moved to Certicom Research, where his current duties include mathematical consultation, patent searching and compilation, standards compliance, drafting of standards, and maintaining the Certicom Research Library. John holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Toronto. His thesis was on the subject of algebraic topology.

Robert joined Certicom in 1997. His responsibilities at Certicom have included research and IP generation as well as management of a development team. Robert received a B.Sc.(Hon.) in Mathematics from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1993, a M.Math. from the University of Waterloo in 1994, and a Ph.D.(Mathematics) in 1997, also from the University of Waterloo. His graduate training was in Combinatorics and Optimization.

Ron has a B.A. in mathematics from the University of Western Ontario, and an M.Math. and Ph.D. from the University of Waterloo, where he was professor of Mathematics until his retirement in 1996. Currently, he is a Research Professor at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton. Ron was awarded the Dr. Rer. Nat. h.c. from the University of Rostock in 2001.

Rene has been with Certicom since 2001. His main responsibilities include research on cryptography, generation of intellectual property, design and analysis of efficient security architectures, consultancy, and active participation in standards development, including participation in the ZigBee Alliance. Rene held a CNRS-postdoc position in combinatorics at the University of Bordeaux, France (1995) and was a visiting assistant professor at Michigan Technological University, MI, USA, and at the Discrete Mathematics Group of Eindhoven (both in 1996). In 1997-2000, he worked at TNO Research Laboratories and at Philips Crypto, The Netherlands, where he was engaged in security evaluations and the cryptanalysis of proprietary crypto systems, responsible in the design and analysis of cryptographic building blocks and the design of security architectures. Rene's interests include theoretical and applied aspects of coding theory, combinatorics, cryptography, discrete mathematics, and information theory. He particularly enjoys the rich cross-fertilization between these disciplines and the vast array of real-life applications that have their roots herein. He is also interested in general trust management and security architectural designs issues. He designed a distributed security architecture of unsurpassed flexibility, which could eventually become a blueprint for low-cost, scalable and versatile security architectures for ad-hoc networks. Rene holds a M.Sc. degree in Computer Science and a Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands. His Ph.D. thesis concerned combinatorial non-existence results and efficient constructions for covering codes, which can be viewed as quantizers of digital data - approximation schemes that allow a shorter representation of data, at the expense of a limited loss of accuracy.

Rob leads the team developing efficient arithmetic for Certicom Developer Toolkits. He has been involved in algorithms and implementations for smartcards. Rob holds a B.A.Sc. in Electrical Engineering with the Computer Science option, an M.A.Sc and Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Waterloo. His Ph.D. thesis examined the solution of the sparse linear systems over prime fields obtained from the index calculus methods of discrete logarithm calculation, deriving efficient non-heuristic methods. Rob's current interests include efficient algorithms and implementation for embedded and low-power devices, hardware implementation, and cryptography.