Meet the Team

David Chadwick was a Professor of Information Systems Security at the University of Kent for 15 years, specialising in authorisation and access controls. He was the designer and chief architect of the PERMIS open source X.509 authorisation infrastructure. For the last four years he has been an invited expert to W3C Verifiable Credentials Working Group and is a co-author of the standard. Before accademia he was General Manager of Salford Software Services an IT company specialising in state of the art networking produc

Ioram Sette has a PhD in Computer Science from the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), in Brazil, which included a 1-year internship at the University of Kent (UKC) with David Chadwick. His career has included working as a Senior Software Engineering Consultant and as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) / DevOps Consultant at the Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems (CESAR) for 10 years and being a Lecturer at the CESAR School university, where he also supervises students on the Professional PhD programme.