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Last Fiscal Year Sales:$7.5M
  • Private
  • US
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Intertrust develops and licenses intellectual property for Digital Rights Management (DRM) and trusted computing. The Company holds 78 U.S. patents, over 100 issued patents, and has more than 300 patent applications pending worldwide. Our patent portfolio covers software and hardware techniques that can be implemented in a broad range of products that use DRM and trusted computing technologies, including computer operating systems, digital media platforms, web services, and enterprise infrastructure. We have research, engineering, and IP groups focusing on developing and monetizing next-generation technologies and inventions.

Chief Executive Officer
Talal G Shamoon
Number of Employees 35
Contact Information

955 Stewart Dr

Santa Clara, California 94085

www.intertrust....

(408) 616-1600

NAICS Code Custom Computer Programming Services: 541511

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Decision Makers

Name (plus bio) Position
Talal G Shamoon Chief Executive Officer
David P. Maher Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Jeff McDow Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property and Chief Patent Counsel
Bill Rainey Senior Vice President and General Counsel
Douglas Derwin Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property Strategy
Jack Lacy Senior Vice President, Standards and Specifications

Organization Position Status
InterTrust Technologies Corporation Chief Executive Officer Current
InterTrust Technologies Corporation Executive Vice President for Business Development Former
Cornell University Ph.D. In Electrical Engineering Former

David Maher has an extensive background in secure computing and is responsible for Research and Development at Intertrust. Before joining Intertrust in 1999, he was Chief Scientist for AT&T Secure Communications Systems, Head of the Secure Systems Research Department, and security architect for AT&T's Internet services platform. After joining Bell Labs in 1981, Maher developed secure communications, information vending, and e-commerce systems. He was Chief Architect for AT&T's STU-III secure voice, data, and video products used by the White House and Department of Defense for top-secret communications. In 1992, Maher became a Bell Labs Fellow in recognition of his accomplishments in communications security. Maher holds multiple patents in secure computing; has published papers in the fields of combinatorics, cryptography, number theory, signal processing, and electronic commerce; and has consulted with the National Science Foundation, National Security Agency, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. He is a co-author of the recent National Research Council report "Embedded Everywhere: Network Systems of Embedded Computers." Maher holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Lehigh University. He has taught electrical engineering, mathematics, and computer science at several institutions.

Organization Position Status
InterTrust Technologies Corporation Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Current
National Security Agency Current
National Institute of Standards and Technology Current
National Science Foundation Current
Bell Labs Former
Lehigh University Ph.D. In Mathematics Former

Organization Position Status
InterTrust Technologies Corporation Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property and Chief Patent Counsel Current
United States Patent and Trademark Office Former
Harvard Law School J.D. Former
Stanford University J.D. Former
Walla Walla College J.D. Former
Stanford University M.S. In Electrical Engineering Former
Walla Walla College B.S. In Electrical Engineering Former

Organization Position Status
InterTrust Technologies Corporation Senior Vice President and General Counsel Current
InterTrust Technologies Corporation General Counsel Current
University of the Pacific J.D. Former
McGeorge School of Law, University of the Pacific J.D. Former
University Corp. J.D. Former
Santa Clara University B.S. Degree In Commerce, Finance Former

Douglas Derwin is Senior Vice President of intellectual property strategy at Intertrust. Prior to joining Intertrust in 1997, he was a partner at Weil, Gotshal and Manges' Silicon Valley office, where he headed the firm's strategic technology group. Previously, Derwin was a partner at Skjerven, Morrill, MacPherson, Franklin and Friel, where he represented Advanced Micro Devices and NEC in major intellectual property litigations against Intel. Derwin's legal career began in 1983 at Fenwick and West in Palo Alto. He received a J.D., cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1983, and a B.A. in history and political science, summa cum laude, from UCLA in 1980.

Organization Position Status
InterTrust Technologies Corporation Senior Vice President, Intellectual Property Strategy Current
Pliant Technology, Inc. Board of Directors Current
University of California, Los Angeles J.D. Former
Harvard Law School J.D. Former
University of California, Los Angeles B.A. In History Former

Jack Lacy is responsible for media standards activities, technical requirements for advanced development projects, development of system architectures and prototypes (particularly around media technologies), and determination of Intertrust's interfaces to open technology standards. Before joining Intertrust, he spent 18 years as a researcher at Bell Laboratories, and AT&T Labs working in a variety of areas related to networking and computer security, including systems for sending voice over IP networks, cryptography, and secure systems architecture. Lacy is a co-inventor of Cryptolib, a widely distributed cryptographic library, and Policymaker, an AT&T developed approach to specifying and interpreting security policies, credentials, and relationships. He has also been active in intellectual property protection and management through his involvement in standards setting organization, such as MPEG, OPIMA, and SDMI. Lacy chaired the SDMI Portable Device Working Group from March until September 1999. He received an M.S. in computer science from New York University in 1987, and an M.S. in Physics from the University of Wisconsin in 1979.

Organization Position Status
InterTrust Technologies Corporation Senior Vice President, Standards and Specifications Current
AT&T Labs Researcher Former
Bell Laboratories Researcher Former
New York University M.S. In Computer Science Former
University of Wisconsin M.S. In Physics Former
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