Nigel Edwards is a HPE Fellow, Vice President and Director Security Lab, Hewlett Packard Labs at Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He possess expertise in linux, software engineering, distributed systems, software development, algorithms and 13 more skills. Colleagues describe him as "I have the deepest respect for Nigel and all that he has accomplished to develop and ensure flexible and secured infrastructures can be deployed to protect business and consumer privacy and data integrity (something the world desperately needs) . Most recently, Nigel has been instrumental to the creation of multiple security protocols and architectures including the DMTF Security and Protocol Data Model (used to perform component authentication and establish secured communication channels), PCI Express and Gen-Z security, encryption, and data integrity, Gen-Z security architecture, platform certificate infrastructure, etc. Nigel's passion for technology goes beyond security as demonstrated by his many years of contribution to HP / HPE's technical community from driving its annual innovation conference to helping advance the careers of many engineers and researchers. I was very fortunate to work with and learn from Nigel; he made me a better engineer / architect and person. " and "During my tenure at HP I had the distinct privilege of working with Nigel on advanced system security projects. Nigel, skillfully leading my Bristol HP team, proposed and successfully lead an effort resulting in a hardened Linux base on which future products could be derived. Nigel was highly respected by his team and the extended group within the Division for his solid foundation in information and system security."