The Principals of ShieldIP

Yossi Beinart (Chief Executive Officer and President) has been involved with software development for over 15 years. From 1995 to 2001, he was Managing Director and Chief Information Officer of ITG Inc. (formerly a unit of Jefferies & Company Inc.), an institutional brokerage firm providing major institutions and money management firms with sophisticated, leading edge trading technologies to help reduce transaction costs. ITG's 2001 revenues exceeded $310 MM with net income of over $63 MM. ITG has experienced annual growth rates averaging over 30% in the last 10 years. At ITG, he was responsible for software development, product development, and production services.
Prior to joining ITG, he was Vice President of research and development at Integrated Analytics Corporation (IAC). IAC developed the first real time expert trading system that allowed traders to monitor and analyze thousands of securities in real time based on their own model. Jefferies & Company purchased IAC in 1991.
Yossi served in the Israeli Defense Forces as a battalion commander in the Armored Corps (Lt. Colonel, reserve) and holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel.

Michael Rabin (Co-Founder) has worked in computer science since obtaining his doctorate from Princeton University in 1960. His work spans the entire field and he is widely recognized as one of the founders and a world-class leader in the discipline. A major focus of his work is in cryptography and computer security. He invented the randomized method for creating and testing large prime numbers, the enabling tool for public-key cryptography. He has made other major contributions to cryptography, including the innovation of a data-fingerprinting method widely used in security and authentication applications. He has invented an encryption method provably as secure as factorization. Together with D. Tygar, he developed the experimental ITOSS (Integrated Toolkit for Operating System Security) system. His contributions have been recognized by major awards. He is the winner of the Turing Award (considered to be the Nobel Prize of computer science), the Harvey Prize in Science and Technology, and the Israel Prize in Computer Science. The citation for the Israel Prize states: "The fact that Israel is a world power in computer science and technology must be substantially credited to Michael Rabin." He has been elected to numerous Academies, including the US national Academy of Sciences and the French Academy of Sciences. He is currently the T.J. Watson Sr. Professor of Computer Science at Harvard University and was the Albert Einstein Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Recently, with Y. Aumann and Y. Z. Ding, he has invented hyper-encryption, the first ever practical and provably unbreakable encryption system. This innovation was widely reported in the media around the world.

Rabin has significant industrial/consulting experience including serving on the IBM Science Advisory Committee from 1981-1993. In addition, Rabin has served on two National Research Council (NRC) committees that wrote the influential reports "Computers at Risk" and "Intellectual Property Issues in Software". Rabin has given hundreds of invited major and keynote lectures in mathematical and computer science conferences and departments. In 1998 he was the IACR Speaker at Crypto98, the principal annual cryptography conference.

Dennis Shasha (Co-Founder) has worked in computer science since 1977, after attending Yale College. His first job was to design hardware and microcode for a large IBM mainframe (3090). He obtained a doctorate in applied mathematics from Harvard University in 1984. Since then, he has been at the Computer Science department of the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University, where he has been a full professor for the last seven years. His research work has focused on enhancing the performance of database systems, the discovery of patterns in biological data as an aid to drug discovery, and the development of a system for parallel computing. Besides his 77 published papers, he has written and published five books, including Database Tuning: a principled approach (Prentice-Hall) and Pattern Discovery in Biomolecular Data (Oxford). Shasha has been a consultant in database design and pattern recognition for Morgan Stanley, Bell Laboratories, Union Bank of Switzerland, NCR, Telcordia, Interactive Imaginations, Neuromedica, and Ceremedics. The ShieldIP technology makes substantial use of databases and pattern recognition.

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