Joseph Sharkey is the Chief Technology Officer for Siege Technologies where heleads all corporate technical strategy while still finding time to get hishands dirty conducting R&D; and writing code. Before entering the securitydomain in 2007, his work focused on micro-processor design, where he has morethan two dozen publications and conference presentations (seehttps://scholar.google.com/citations?user=x5jerpcAAAAJ&hl;=en). Dr.Sharkey's research interests include trusted computing, hypervisors, low-levelsystem software, and advanced processor architecture features and how theyinteract with the overall security of the system.