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Nico Popp is Vice President and General Manager of VeriSign Authentication and Email Security Services within the Security Services Business unit. In this role, Nico is responsible for managing VeriSign Unified Strong Authentication, client PKI and anti-spam products. Nico is also head of the Research & Advanced Products group that leads VeriSign's efforts developing new products and services. Prior to VeriSign, Nico was RealNames Corporation's chief technical officer from 1997 to 2002. He led the engineering team that designed and built the first version of the Keyword system. Throughout his career, Nico's projects - everything from automatic pilot systems to speech recognition software to Web application servers. Prior to joining RealNames, Nico was the co-inventor and engineering manager for WebObjects at NeXT Software and Apple Computer. Nico began his career as an automatic control engineer for Avions Marcel Dassault, where he designed and implemented automatic pilot prototypes. He earned a master of science degree in robotics from Stanford University, and a bachelors degree in aeronautics from Sup'Aero, France. In 1990, together with Professor Ilan Kroo from Stanford University, Nico designed and built a semi rigid asymmetric windsurfing sail that performed the world's fourth- fastest run (30.1 knots) at the Windsurfing Speed Championship in Saintes Marie de la Mer, France. | 