Linux vs Windows: sigurnostRichard Ford, Ph.D.
Chief Technology Officer
Cenetec Ventures's Chief Technology Officer Dr. Richard Ford is one of the nation's top Internet architecture experts and an internationally acknowledged computer security expert. Ford has lectured worldwide on the subject of computer security, and holds editorial positions for several virus and security related journals. He holds one patent and is widely published in the areas of both computer security and physics. Dr. Ford has served as Director of Research for the National Computer Security Association. He also spent a year at IBM Research's prestigious T.J. Watson Research Center, working in the Massively Distributed Systems group.
Before being appointed Chief Technology Officer for Cenetec Ventures, Dr. Ford was the Director of Technology at Verio in Boca Raton. There he served as senior architect for the world's largest web hosting platform and was also responsible for the security of more than 200,000 web sites.
Dr. Ford was educated at Oxford in his native England and holds a Bachelors Degree and a Masters in Physics from that university. He went on to complete his doctorate at Oxford in Low Temperature Semiconductor Physics. He began work immediately after as an executive editor of Virus Bulletin, the world's foremost technical publication on computer viruses and malware.
He currently resides in Boca Raton with his wife Sarah. When not working, he enjoys playing the saxophone and is also a highly-rated chess player.
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