Executives and Board

Brian O'Higgins

Vice President and Chief Technology Officer and Founder of Entrust

Mr. O'Higgins is the Chief Technology Officer and co-founder of Entrust, a leading Internet Security company. He has overall responsibility for the technology vision and direction for the company. He was previously with Nortel where he established the Secure Networks group in 1993 that was the predecessor of Entrust. Prior to this, he was with Bell-Northern Research, which he joined in 1979.

At BNR, he was involved with a variety of technology development programs, including public key security systems, technology for new telephone products, in-building wireless communications systems and high-performance computing architectures for call processing applications.

Mr. O'Higgins is a recognized speaker on IT and Internet security, and has authored several papers in the field.

He currently serves on several boards and advisory boards for companies and other industry associations, including the Information Technology Association of Canada, Communications and Information Technology Ontario, Recognia, Algonquin College, Cloakware, and Defence R&D; Canada.