Frank Tycksen has more than 21 years of experience in software development and management. Mr. Tycksen was most recently at Intel Corporation where he was Research Engineering Manager in the Trusted Platforms Lab, which led Intel's research efforts in the areas of trust and security. Before joining Intel, Tycksen was CTO of Swan Island Networks and the Security Architect for the associated non-profit organization, RAINS. Prior to Swan Island, Mr. Tycksen founded and was CTO of Portland Software, which later merged and became Preview Systems. Mr. Tycksen was involved from its pre-financing stage to its emergence as a public corporation listed on the NASDAQ exchange. Mr. Tycksen was also instrumental in the success of several other companies, such as Second Nature Software. And, before that, Mr. Tycksen was one of the creators of Central Point Software's PC Tools product line.