Mr. Gill is President and Founder of Penfield Gill, Incorporated, a consulting firm specializing in New Media communications, marketing, and strategic planning. The firm also provides its clients with special scouting services: people, ideas, and companies. Currently, Mr. Gill is also a Nishi Fellow.
From 1993 to 1995, Mr. Gill was Director of Special Projects in the Office of Media Affairs at The White House, where he was a key member of the communications innovations team which introduced electronic publishing, public access email to the President, and, in October 1994, the first White House web site - Welcome to the White House.
Previously, he was a consultant to the 1992 Clinton/Gore presidential campaign, responsible for all public access e-mail and electronic publishing activities. Mr. Gill is a frequent speaker on the history and future of information technology and new media. He has also been a senior product manager at Lotus Development Corporation, and was the founding president of Computer Access Corporation.
Mr. Pierce is a graduate of Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. He is formerly a Staff Scientist at a national engineering firm where he performed information security architecture and implementation for both internal and external customers. In his past position, Mr. Pierce was a member of the corporate Information Security Business Council, coordinating physical and information security capabilities. He is the contributing editor for SANS Securing Windows guides NT and 2000, an Officer for Vermont InfraGard, an industry expert presenter for WatchIT$E2s Forensics and Incident Response training program, and a recognized leader in Microsoft Windows Forensics and investigations. Mr. Pierce serves as Chair of the Vermont State Technology Advisory Board, appointed by the Commissioner of Information and Innovation. Mr. Pierce is Principal of ForenSec, Ltd., and Program Manager at the National Center for the Study of Counter Terrorism and Cyber Crime.
David Marston is a New Hampshire native and a graduate of Dartmouth College. He has always been interested in NH state politics, and is co-author of the first edition of the Directory of New Hampshire Services, issued by the Governor's office in 1972. He participated in the founding and chartering of the Software Association of New Hampshire, and the committee that manages its annual conference. He writes on technology subjects for regional publications, was an advisor for the original "Primary Destination: New Hampshire" Web site, and has worked for the Dartmouth Election Network in several roles. He has worked with various forms of on-line computing since 1967, and has been on Usenet since 1983. He has 28 years of experience in software development, telecom operations, networking and the Internet. By day, he works for IBM Research on XML technologies.