Philip Raymond

Philip Raymond, is CEO & co-chair of CRYPSA (Cryptocurrency Standards Association). He is also principal & co-founder of Vanquish Labs, the Massachusetts, Internet security vendor. Raymond has been the subject of feature stories in The Wall Street Journal, Forbes, National Public Radio, Boston Business Journal, Network World, PC Magazine, PC Week, and Wired News. He is a frequent feature of syndicated radio shows. He is currently involved with the following projects; CRYPSA (Cryptocurrency Standards Association), Blind Signaling and Response (Limits use of personal data collected by cloud services), Writer/Lecturer/Security consultant, especially on Bitcoin and Privacy & Anti-forensics and RDDC (Reverse Distributed Data Cloud): Unlimited secure storage spread across peers. Access in real time as a torrent. Mr. Raymond founded and managed several ventures before starting Vanquish Labs. He was founder & Chairman of IMCO Electronics (originally Architectural Communications Inc), a LAN manufacturer and a preferred network solution for industrial, HVAC, building & environmental controls. He founded Peripheral Vision (later, International Bureau of Software Test, Inc), the market leader in software testing, with contracts from IBM, AT&T and Xerox. IBST was acquired by Prentice Hall/Gulf & Western. He is a writer for the Sophos security newsletter "Naked Security". Mr. Raymond is also on the Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation and at Heliotronics, Inc, a manufacturer of grid-connected power inverters. Mr. Raymond holds Masters & Bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University. The Cryptocurrency Standards Association (CRYPSA) publishes standards and promotes practices that facilitate the use of Bitcoin in mainstream commerce. As a working group of the financial services industry, CRYPSA seeks to establish, measure and validate the safety & security of cryptocurrency wallets and transactions. CRYPSA certification and transaction validation is a customer assurance and accountability mechanism in the emerging economy of decentralized, p2p transactions.