Rodney Joffe

Rodney Joffe is a DNS and security industry pioneer who founded a pair of keystone companies – Genuity (first commercial Internet hosting company) and UltraDNS (first outsourced, cloud-based DNS company) – and now serves as SVP and Fellow at Neustar. He regularly lends his insights and experience to organizations like ICANN and the U.S. government, where he sat on the cybersecurity intelligence panel and served as an advisor to the Obama White House. Rodney is one of the first civilians to receive the FBI Director’s Award for outstanding cyber investigating (due to his role in uncovering and taking down the Butterfly Botnet), and has helped establish and lead prominent engineering organizations including NANOG, ARIN, IETF and OARC, as well as numerous working groups including Conficker and M3AAWG.