CTO EMEA---since 1998 serving as Chief Technologist for Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) with Sun Microsystems Inc., Global Sales Operations. Working from Basle/Switzerland he establishes and furthers Technology Transfer to customer and partner executives as well as governments and other organizations in EMEA emphasizing the benefits and business implications of Sun technologies as facilitators for the transition from our product based to a services based economy. His focus is presently on Web Services today and tomorrow, Identity and Trust Management as a prerequisites for internet based services, the Liberty Allaince Project of today over 170 companies to build a federated network identity framework, and Java and Jini technologies…