Ian Hamilton has been an innovator and entrepreneur in Internetworking infrastructure and applications for more than 30 years. He is a listed inventor on 9 patents and received a Technology and Engineering Emmy award as a member of the Signiant team. As a founding member of Signiant, he has led the development of innovative software solutions to address the challenges of fast, secure content distribution over the public Internet and private intranets for many of the media and entertainment industries’ largest and smallest companies. Prior to Signiant, Ian was Chairman and Vice President of Product Development at ISOTRO Network Management which was acquired by Bay Networks. Ian held senior management positions at Bay Networks and subsequently Nortel Networks, from which Signiant emerged. Previously Ian was a Member of Scientific Staff at Bell Northern Research performing applied research and development in the areas of Internetworking and security.