Andrew Csinger

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Dr. Andrew Csinger served as Chief Conspiracy Officer and Interim Chief Technology Officer at FusionPipe. Dr. Csinger served as Director at A2B Fiber. He is Entrepreneur in Residence and Adjunct Professor in the Cognitive Systems Group at the University of British Columbia. He is an advisor or director to several start-up companies and is on the Board of Advisors of ISSNet, a research network focused on computer and network security funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC). He is also a founding member of the Steering Committee for the Vancouver Institute of Visual Analytics. Dr. Csinger was Executive Vice-President of Product Strategy and Development at Dategrity Corp., a spin-out from the Votehere Corporation. He was Senior Vice-President and Chief Information Officer of Group Telecom from 1998 to 2002. In 1998, he developed and operated the first Public Key Infrastructure (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. (acquired by RSA Technologies), a technology leader in the emerging business of PKI. Dr. Csinger was a mentor of the SFU Technology Business Mentorship Program and has been both mentor and reviewer for the New Ventures BC business plan competition since 2007. He was an NSERC Post-Doctoral Fellow at Simon Fraser University, and a visiting scholar at the German Center for Artificial Intelligence in Saarbrucken. Dr. Csinger's work on artificial intelligence techniques has appeared in journals and conferences around the world. He holds several patents in Internet security, biometrics and related areas. Dr. Csinger holds a Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Computer Science from the University of British Columbia and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from McGill University.