Phillip J Windley

Phil Windley is a Principal Engineer in the Office of Information Technology at Brigham Young University. He was the Founding Chair of the Sovrin Foundation, serving from 2016 to 2020. He is also the co-founder and organizer of the Internet Identiy Workshop, one of the world's most important and long-lived identity conferences.

Phil writes the popular Technometria blog, and is the author of the books The Live Web (Course Technology, 2011) and Digital Identity (O'Reilly Media, 2005). Phil has served on the Boards of Directors and Advisory Boards for several high-tech companies.

Phil has been a professor of Computer Science at Brigham Young University (twice) and the University of Idaho. In addition, Phil was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Kynetx, the company behind the open-source connected-car product, Fuse. He also spent two years as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the State of Utah in 2001-2002, serving on Governor Mike Leavitt's Cabinet and as a member of his Senior Staff. Before entering public service, Phil was Vice President for Product Development and Operations at Excite@Home. He was the Founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of iMALL, Inc. an early creator of ecommerce tools. Phil received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from University of California, Davis in 1990.