Dr. Ulrich Lang (CEO, co-founder) received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory (Security Group) on conceptual aspects of middleware security in 2003 (sponsored by the UK Defence and Evaluation Research Agency (DERA), after having completed a Master's Degree (M. Sc.) in Information Security with distinction from Royal Holloway College (University of London) in 1997. On the management side, he has recently completed a Business Marketing Strategy course at the Kellogg School of Management (Northwestern University). Prior to his M. Sc. he studied computer science & management at the University of Munich and at Royal Holloway College (University of London). Ulrich is a renowned thought leader in model-driven security, access control policy, and Cloud/SOA/middleware security. He is on the Board of Directors of the Cloud Security Alliance (Silicon Valley Chapter). Ulrich is responsible the business and technical strategy, architecture and direction of ObjectSecurity and the OpenPMF product. In addition, Ulrich leads the consultancy business within ObjectSecurity (esp. for SOA & Cloud security and model-driven security). Ulrich also runs ObjectSecurity's Silicon Valley office. He has also previously worked as a proposal evaluator, project evaluator (e.g. EU Framework Programmes), consultant, book author. He has served in the German federal civil defence (technical and logistical relief) for several years. In his spare time, Ulrich plays the saxophone.Specialties: IT security, distributed systems security, policy management, security research, development. Please have a look at www.objectsecurity.com for details.