Joseph Sharkey is the Chief Technology Officer for Siege Technologies where he leads all corporate technical strategy while still finding time to get his hands dirty conducting R&D and writing code. Before entering the security domain in 2007, his work focused on micro-processor design, where he has more than two dozen publications and conference presentations (see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=x5jerpcAAAAJ&hl=en). Dr. Sharkey's research interests include trusted computing, hypervisors, low-level system software, and advanced processor architecture features and how they interact with the overall security of the system.