Stephen Stuart

Stephen Stuart is VP of engineering at PAIX, the neutral Internet exchange point business of which he was a co-founder in 1996; he is also a member of the team that operates ISC's f.root-servers.net. His background in engineering and research began at Digital Equipment Corporation, and includes work on trading floor networking, the NASD network backbone, the first revenue-producing digital ad insertion system for cable TV, the AltaVista search site, Digital's Internet gateway, and the Palo Alto Internet Exchange. Stephen was then a founder and VP of engineering/CTO of MIBH, which was sold to MFN for 5x revenue; Stephen became VP of R&D for MFN prior to his return to PAIX.