An industry veteran and proven innovator, Ron joined Intel in 2017 with a breadth of experience spanning security technology, semiconductors and cloud computing. Most recently, he was a vice president in the Visa Research organisation at Visa Inc. As head of security research, he led a team conducting fundamental and applied security and blockchain research critical to Visa and its business partners in the global digital commerce community. Before joining Visa, Ron was fellow and chief technology officer in the cryptography research division of Rambus Inc. and senior fellow at Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD), where he led the company’s security architecture organisation.
Earlier in his career, Ron was a senior manager and senior technical leader at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. During his tenure there, he led the systems solutions and architecture department, as well as multiple teams of research scientists and engineers pursuing advances in various systems technologies, including virtualisation and systems management, next-generation memory subsystems, stream computing, multimedia and information theory. Ron began his career as a software engineer at Motorola Inc. and then Tandem Computers Inc.
Ron earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from the University of Texas at Austin. He has been granted more than thirty U.S. patents—with more internationally—related to various aspects of security, with additional patents pending. He is also the author or co-author of more than 20 publications. His industry contributions include serving as the Chairman of the Linux Foundation’s Confidential Computing Consortium, Intel’s representative to the board of directors for the Trusted Computing Group, as well as earlier representing IBM as vice president of the Trusted Computing Group.