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Edward Perez is global director of technology development at the OSET Institute, a nonpartisan nonprofit that develops open-source election technology and performs election infrastructure research. He was previously director of product management and certification for one of the three major U.S. commercial voting system vendors.
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PALO ALTO, Calif.(BUSINESS WIRE)The OSET Institute announces today that Edward Perez, formerly Director of Product Management for voting system vendor Hart InterCivic® has joined the OSET Institute's leadership team, as Global Director of Technology. In this role, Edward will direct technology research and development, while serving as an evangelist for open standards and security innovation worldwide. He will report to the Institute’s Chief Technology Officer.
“Eddie Perez joining the Institute is an important development for the progress of our research and development mission to offer public technology that will serve as a reference model for how to truly innovate election technology in the digital age,” said Gregory Miller, co-founder of the OSET Institute.
“My departure from Hart InterCivic was essentially a retirement from the commercial sector, and I remain positive about the efforts that Hart is making as the only vendor moving in the right direction with regard to a security-centric model, facilitated by a ground-up rewrite that I helped foster,” said Perez.
OSET CTO John Sebes observed, “Eddie’s experience, mindset and outlook will be pivotal to our cause to increase confidence in elections and their outcomes by offering new publicly available innovations for the commercial world to adopt, adapt, and deploy.”
Mr. Perez’s activities start today as he provides subject matter expertise to NBC News as part of the OSET election technology analyst team announced last week.
The OSET Institute is a tax-exempt 501.c.3 non-profit election technology research, development and education organization based in the Silicon Valley. The Institute is led by a team of seasoned technologists with extensive hardware, software, and systems design experience from well-known companies including Apple, Netscape, Facebook, and Sun Microsystems. The Institute’s mission is to make election technology more verifiable, accurate, secure, and transparent. Work is based on open source principles to treat this critical government technology as an imperative publicly available asset.