Dr. Dan Geer is currently Vice-President and Chief Scientist at Verdasys, a software solutions company designed to protect and manage the flow of data essential to the operation of businesses on a global basis. Geer is considered to be an expert in computer security and has testified before Congress on multiple occasions and has served in formal advisory roles for the Federal Trade Commission, the National Science Foundation, the Treasury Department, the National Research Council, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, the Department of Defense, the National Institute of Justice and the Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection.