Ulrich received his Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory (Security Group) on access policies for middleware in 2003, after having completed a Master’s Degree (M. Sc.) in Information Security from Royal Holloway College (London) in 1997. Ulrich is a renowned thought leader in access control policy, model-driven security, and Cloud/SOA/middleware security. He is on the Board of Directors of the Cloud Security Alliance (Silicon Valley Chapter). He is also responsible for the business and technical strategy, architecture and direction of ObjectSecurity and the OpenPMF product. He has published over 150 papers/presentations, and has previously worked as a proposal evaluator, project evaluator, conference program committee, panel moderator, consultant, book author.