Mary Ruddy Appointed Interim Executive Director of ICF

I'm pleased to announce that as of October 1, Mary is the new Executive Director of ICF. Mary brings a wealth of experience and relationships within user-centric identity community. Having worked alongside Mary in a number of settings, I have every confidence that she'll guide the ICF admirably as we begin our next phase of growth and evolution.

Mary succeeds Drummond Reed, another person well known in the identity community. Drummond's passion for building standards, trust frameworks, and supporting organizations within what might be called the emerging Personal Data Ecosystem has grown to the point where several weeks ago he told the ICF board that he wanted to focus on it full time and that we should initiate a search for his successor.

In February 2009 Drummond was asked by this board on rather short notice if he would serve as our E.D. He cheerfully accepted and immediately tackled the considerable challenge of getting the new ICF website, communications strategy, and organizational infrastructure ready for the successful launch at RSA several weeks later. Since then Drummond has continued to do an exemplary job promoting the cause of Information Cards in countless public and private venues. He has also devoted a significant portion of his time to co-founding, in partnership with the OpenID Foundation, the OIX organization. Drummond also worked alongside Mary Ruddy, John Bradley and other ICF board members to get Information Card technology to be accepted by the US ICAM program. All of these projects have been successful in no small part due to Drummond's tireless efforts, and have benefited from his professional manner and genuine enthusiasm.

--Paul Trevithick, ICF Board Chair