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Karl Keller was born in Decatur, IL on November 16, 1938. He graduated with a Bachelor of Science degree from the University of Illinois in June 1961. His BSEE course work was supplemented with a year in the University of Illinois College of Law. In June, 1977, he received the degree of Master of Business Administration from The University of Chicago.

Mr. Keller is currently self-employed as a consultant in network security and forensics. He teaches security to graduating seniors in degree programs at the DeVry Institute of Technology, and has taught similar courses at the University of California, Santa Barbara, and other institutions.

Mr. Keller served as IT Director for Oberthur Smart Cards (now Oberthur Card Systems), developing and managing a highly secure IT infrastructure that included a very early operational implementation of an IPSec-based Virtual Private Network. Under Mr. Keller’s direction, the company built a first prototype of a secure web access portal for customer access to selected manufacturing data.

During the “dot.com boom”, Mr. Keller served as Chief Technology Officer of a “pure play” EBusiness venture. In that role, he managed the development of a high availability and secure web application that implemented a sealed-bid model.

Subsequently, he was recruited to lead the software engineering of a new-technology firewall/gateway being developed by 3Com. Mr. Keller’s other consulting experience includes projects for Amgen, Intel, Walt Disney Imagineering, KLA-Tencor, McDonnell-Douglas Automation, and many other clients over a twenty-year span.

As Engineering VP for the Searle Analytic division of G. D. Searle, Mr. Keller assembled and led a large multidisciplinary team that developed automated clinical laboratory equipment to perform radioisotope-based immunology research, carbon dating, nuclear chromatography and electrophoresis. Subsequently, he was EMI’s Director of Product Engineering for the pioneering development of the first whole-body CT X-Ray Scanner.

Other career experiences include: the reduction to practice of an early spread spectrum detection system patent; frequent investigation and expert testimony in litigation of product defects, and theft of trade secrets; developing pioneering pulse spectrometry instrumentation for high-energy physics research.

Mr. Keller currently resides in Westlake Village, CA. He is a long-term member of Rotary International, and occasionally performs as a professional jazz musician.

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