[Chapter-delegates] Welcome to J. Trent Adams, Outreach Specialist, Identity Community

[Lucy Lynch]

All -

I'm very pleased to announce a new staff member to work in the Trust & Identity 
Initiative. J. Trent Adams will join the Internet Society as
our Outreach Specialist, Identity Community, next week.

As an Outreach Specialist, Trent will help build relationships with 
technologists and developers and collaborate on tools and documents to 
communicate key issues related to trust and identity. He will draw on more than 
13 years working with multiple stakeholders to design and deploy Internet-based 
technologies. His experience spans pioneering digital media production to 
running high traffic community portals and e-commerce engines, to supporting 
various specifications, standards, and advocacy communities.

Most recently, Trent founded a company that developed a portable, personalized, 
consumer-controlled, privacy-respecting recommendation system. He incubated the 
idea as Chief Innovator for the Kraft Group Sports Properties while he was in 
charge of the sites for the New England Patriots, Revolution, and Gillette 
Stadium in Massachusetts, USA. He designed and managed a comprehensive online 
strategy, unifying over 40 destinations using open syndication and single 
sign-on techniques.

Trent is also involved with various specification, standards, and technology 
advocacy groups. He is an officer of the DataPortability Project, a member of 
Liberty Alliance, contributor to Project VRM, and participant in the semantic 
web community. He has spoken at the Web 2.0, Web 3.0, OMMA, and FastForward 
conferences.

Trent's official start date is 1 February and he will work from Boston.
His contact details will be:

email:  adams at isoc.org
phone:  +17034392149
jabber: adams at jabber.isoc.org

Please join me in welcoming Trent to the Internet Society.

Lucy Lynch
Director of Technical Projects
Internet Society (ISOC)