John A. Ryan

JOHN A. RYAN joined ZixIt Corporation as President and Chief
Executive Officer and was elected Director and Chairman of our
Board in November 2001. From January 1997 through January 2001,
he served as President, Chief Executive Officer, and Director of
Entrust, Inc., a company for which he led the private placement
in 1996 and took public in August 1998. Prior to that, Mr. Ryan
held a number of senior management positions in general
management, marketing and sales, and finance with Nortel
Networks, with his most recent position being Vice President and
General Manager of Nortel’s global multimedia and Internet
projects unit. Before joining Nortel, Mr. Ryan worked for
Deloitte Touche LLP and was awarded his Canadian Chartered
Accountant designation in 1981. He has also served as an Advisory
Board member to Scopus Technologies. Prior to joining ZixIt, Mr.
Ryan formed ARM Technologies, a privately held Internet
consulting and services company that he founded in February 2001.
He also currently serves as a director of Tilion Inc., a
privately held Massachusetts-based company that focuses on ‘in-
the-Net’ analytics services based on XML for supply chain
transactions, and RIPTECH Inc., a privately held, managed
security services company based in Washington, DC. He is an
advisory board member to Mobelium, a privately held Internet
wireless services company based in California, and is on the
Board of Trustees for the Hart eCenter at Southern Methodist
University