Andy Dale

Country:	USA
Email:	andy.dale [at] ootao.com
Website:	[The Tao of XDI The Tao of XDI]

Andy Dale is the CEO of ooTao Inc, the the first i-name domain registrars and a software developer firm .

He has been working in the software development department for over 10 years as a company principal and team leader.

Andy Dale has previous worked with various business organizations such as: Citibank, Bank of America, Monsanto, Gap and IBM as well as It companies Identity Commons, Social Physics, Envoii and 2idi. He serves as a Senior Architect to several organizations in the areas of Secure Distributed Data Management and Visualization including Identity Commons and Natural Logic. He is listed as a co-inventor on two patent applications in the areas of digital identity and secure data sharing.

Andy Dale is an active member of the OASIS XDI Technical Committee, an Eclipse Committee member on the Higgins project and an active member of the OpenID 2.0 community. He is also a co-founder of the Virtual Rights Institute.