Alex Fielding is Chief Technology Officer, Federal at Power Assure. He co-founded Wheels of Zeus

Wheels Of Zeus

Wheels of Zeus was a company founded in 2001 by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. WoZ made wireless hardware for keeping track of the physical location of enabled objects. The licensable technology consisted of three components:...

 with Apple's co-founder Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak

Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak is an American computer engineer and programmer who founded Apple Computer, Co. with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne...

 in 2001. Wheels of Zeus

Wheels Of Zeus

Wheels of Zeus was a company founded in 2001 by Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak. WoZ made wireless hardware for keeping track of the physical location of enabled objects. The licensable technology consisted of three components:...

 was a GPS products company building small, low-cost locator tags for kids, dogs, and high value assets that was sold in a private acquisition in 2006 to ZonTrak.

Mr. Fielding started his career as an Engineer at Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems

Cisco Systems, Inc. is an American multinational corporation headquartered in San Jose, California, United States, that designs and sells consumer electronics, networking, voice, and communications technology and services. Cisco has more than 70,000 employees and annual revenue of US$...

 and Apple

Apple Computer

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...

. Joining Apple

Apple Computer

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...

 at a time of chaos and reorganization, Mr. Fielding worked in several groups including Server QA, Network Protocol QA, Server & Network Product Engineering, and as an Engineering Manager.

Shortly after departing Apple

Apple Computer

Apple Inc. is an American multinational corporation that designs and markets consumer electronics, computer software, and personal computers. The company's best-known hardware products include the Macintosh line of computers, the iPod, the iPhone and the iPad...

, Mr. Fielding found himself at Exodus Communications

Exodus Communications

Exodus Communications was an Internet hosting service and Internet service provider to dot-com businesses. It went broke, along with many of its customers, during the bursting of the dot-com bubble. It declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 and was purchased by Cable and Wireless in November...

 working again for Ellen Hancock

Ellen Hancock

Ellen Hancock is a technology manager from the United States who has worked for IBM and Apple, among others.Hancock was born in the Bronx, New York City and raised in Westchester...

, Exodus

Exodus Communications

Exodus Communications was an Internet hosting service and Internet service provider to dot-com businesses. It went broke, along with many of its customers, during the bursting of the dot-com bubble. It declared Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 and was purchased by Cable and Wireless in November...

' CEO who was also Apple Inc.'s former CTO.

Mr. Fielding founded secure encryption products company Ripcord in 2004 with former Apple CEO, Gil Amelio

Gil Amelio

Gilbert Frank Amelio is an American technology executive. He grew up in Miami, Florida and received a bachelor's degree, master's degree, and Ph.D. in physics from the Georgia Institute of Technology...

, CTO, Ellen Hancock

Ellen Hancock

Ellen Hancock is a technology manager from the United States who has worked for IBM and Apple, among others.Hancock was born in the Bronx, New York City and raised in Westchester...

, and founder Steve Wozniak

Steve Wozniak

Stephen Gary "Woz" Wozniak is an American computer engineer and programmer who founded Apple Computer, Co. with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne...

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Mr. Fielding is currently on the board of directors of PharmaCapture and CAWEW. He is an advisor to TEDMED

TEDMED

TEDMED is an annual conference focusing on health and medicine. TEDMED is an independent event operating under license from the nonprofit TED conference.- Background :TEDMED staff operates from Stamford, CT...

 and TED WED

TED (conference)

TED is a global set of conferences owned by the private non-profit Sapling Foundation, formed to disseminate "ideas worth spreading"....

 and the LifeBoat Foundation. He is a donor to UNICEF. Mr. Fielding is a former member of MENSA

Mensa

Mensa meaning table in Latin, may refer to:*Mensa International, an organization for people with high IQs*Mensa , a southern star constellation*Mensa , a term used by geologists to refer to an extraterrestrial mesa...

 and SVASE. He has been a contributor on several patents including early work on inter-satellite routing. He is a contributing member of two NIST working groups on SCAP

Security Content Automation Protocol

The Security Content Automation Protocol is a method for using specific standards to enable automated vulnerability management, measurement, and policy compliance evaluation . The National Vulnerability Database is the U.S...

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