# Paul Trevithick

Paul Byers Trevithick (born 1959) is currently a client partner and senior director at EPAM, advisor to early-stage startups, technologist, privacy advocate, and entrepreneur.

## Education

He grew up in Ottawa, Canada, attended MIT, and received a Bachelor of Science in electrical engineering and computer science in 1981 and was a research assistant at the MIT Media Lab in 1981 and 1982.

## Career

In 1981, he co-founded Lightspeed Computers which was ultimately acquired by DuPont. He was CEO and co-founder in 1985 of Archetype, Inc. which became the Pageflex division of Bitstream Inc. in April 1997. Trevithick then served as Bitstream's vice president of marketing, and starting in August 1998 its president.
Trevithick has contributed to World Wide Web Consortium, PODI, Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS), and ITU-T standards efforts. He was granted the Seybold Industry Vision award in 1999.
Trevithick led the development of the Experimental Laboratory for Investigating Collaboration, Information-sharing, and Trust (ELICIT) web-based platform under contract to the United States Department of Defense (OASD/NII) Command and Control Research Program (CCRP). ELICIT is a tool used in social science research.
He joined EPAM in Dec 2013 and is currently a client partner and senior director.

## Work on information privacy and personal data

Starting in 2003, Trevithick worked on open source software for Internet security, and privacy for digital identities and social networks on the Internet. In 2004, he initiated and co-led what became the Eclipse Foundation's Higgins project. Supporting this effort, he co-founded, also in 2004, the SocialPhysics project in collaboration with the Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society and co-founded the IdentityGang, now a part of Identity Commons. In 2008 Trevithick founded the Information Card Foundation and served as its chair.
In 2009 he co-founded and was a co-chair of the Kantara Initiative Universal Login User Experience Working Group. Trevithick is a past member of the Kantara Leadership Council and a steward of Identity Commons. This same year, he co-authored a paper on "Identity and Resilience" that was one of the 100 papers cited as informing the 2009 US White House CyberPolicy Review. Also in 2009, Trevithick founded Azigo and was until 2020 its chairman.
In 2021 he founded The Mee Foundation, a nonprofit dedicated to the development of a human-centered user experience for the internet. While at the Mee Foundation he published Identity Agents.

## Footnotes

* ↑ Bitstream (March 21, 2000). "Annual Report". Form 10-K. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
* ↑ "PODI". Print On Demand Initiative website
* ↑ Seybold Report on Desktop Publishing. Seybold Publications.
* ↑ "Experimental Laboratory for Investigating Collaboration, Information-sharing, and Trust". CCRP website. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
* ↑ "Command and Control Research Program". CCRP. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
* ↑ "Want to Brainstorm New Ideas? Then Limit Your Online Connections". NYTimes. 4 July 2014.
* ↑ Shore, Jesse; Bernstein, Ethan; Lazer, David (June 2014). "Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces". Social Science Research Network. SSRN 2412492.
* ↑ "EPAM".
* ↑ "Higgins Team". Higgins website. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
* ↑ Mary Rundle; Paul Trevithick (13 February 2007). "Interoperability In the New Digital identity Infrastructure". SSRN 962701.
* ↑ "Identity Commons". idcommons.org website.
* ↑ ULX home page
* ↑ Paul Trevithick; William Coleman; John Clippinger; Kim Taipale (April 22, 2009). "Identity and Resilience" (PDF). whitehouse.gov. Retrieved November 10, 2013 – via National Archives.
* ↑ "Azigo". Archived from the original on 2012-02-20. Retrieved 2010-01-20.
* ↑ "Azigo Team". Company web site promotional biographies. Archived from the original on 2012-02-20. Retrieved November 10, 2013.
* ↑ "The Mee Foundation".
* ↑ "Identity Agents". 9 November 2023.