Jeff’s is a Technology Strategist at HP where he leads hardware and firmware security architecture for business PC platforms, as well as the company’s commercial portfolio of advanced firmware security and resiliency features. With 27 years of experience in the PC industry, Jeff has a track record of delivering industry firsts and unique value-add capabilities in HP products (and Compaq before that).

He is the principal architect for the HP Endpoint Security Controller (HP EpSC) hardware used as a hardware security foundation for HP’s core security functionality, from HP Sure Start, to HP Sure Run, HP Sure Recover and beyond. The HP EpSC also acts as the hardware root of trust for update, detection, and recovery that underpins HP’s hardware design for Firmware Resilience, in line with NIST SP800-193 guidelines for critical platform devices.

As the principal architect of the HP Sure Start feature that has provided firmware self-healing since first introduction in 2013, Jeff has almost a decade of real-world experience in what it takes to create and deploy hardware building blocks to deliver cyber resilient platforms in the commercial mass market.