Peter Tippett, MD, PhD - Board Chairman

Peter S. Tippett, MD, PhD
Board Chairman

Peter is founder and CTO of CyberTrust, the leading provider of Internet security assurance services. He helped start MD-IT and has served as its board chairman since 2002. Peter founded Certus International (developer of systems management software and the first anti-virus software) until its merger with Symantec Corp. in 1992. At Symantec, his anti-virus products became Norton Anti-Virus. He directed the Security and Enterprise Products division of the Peter Norton Group through its major growth from $30 to $350 million before joining ICSA (now Cybertrust) as its CEO in 1995. Peter was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 1998 and serves on the President's Information Technology Advisory Committee (PITAC) for health care technology issues. He earned MD and PhD degrees from Case Western Reserve University and received a BS in biology from Kalamazoo College.