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Rod Rasmussen co-founded Internet Identity and serves as its lead technology development executive. He is widely recognized as a leading expert on the abuse of the domain name system.  Rasmussen is co-chair of the Anti-Phishing Working Group’s (APWG) Internet Policy Committee and serves as the APWG’s Industry Liaison, representing and speaking on behalf of the organization at events around the world. In this role, he works closely with ICANN, the international oversight body for domain names. He also is a member of the Online Trust Alliance’s (OTA) Steering Committee and an active member of the Digital PhishNet, a collaboration between industry and law enforcement, and is an active participant in the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group (MAAWG). Rasmussen earned an MBA from the Haas School of Business at UC-Berkeley and holds two bachelor’s degrees, in Economics and Computer Science, from the University of Rochester.