Dwight C. Olson was the founder of

Data Securities International Data Securities International, DSI was a technology escrow administration company based in San Francisco, California. Founded in 1982, the company escrows source code and other maintenance materials for licensees and stakeholders. The company was a ...

Education

Olson received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and teaching credentials from

Augsburg University Augsburg University is a private university in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It is affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America. It was founded in 1869 as a Norwegian-American Lutheran seminary known as Augsburg Seminarium. Today, the u ...

in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Accomplishments

Olson began his career in the research and development of

supercomputer A supercomputer is a computer with a high level of performance as compared to a general-purpose computer. The performance of a supercomputer is commonly measured in floating-point operations per second ( FLOPS) instead of million instructions ...

s, parallel processing systems and related application architectures in the 1960s and 1970s. Olsen founded

in 1982, which pioneered technology escrow and is known as the father of technology escrow. Olson is a former chairman of the Board of Governors of Certified Licensing Professionals, Inc (CLP), a former President of the Licensing Executives Society, USA and Canada, and he has served as chair of LESI IP Valuation committee. Olson was an associate member of the

American Bar Association The American Bar Association (ABA) is a voluntary bar association of lawyers and law students, which is not specific to any jurisdiction in the United States. Founded in 1878, the ABA's most important stated activities are the setting of acad ...

's Electronic Commerce Law and Information Security Committee working on the ABA's Digital Signature Guidelines. Olson is the author of ''Northern Lights: the beauty of the Forgotten Scandinavian Enamel Artisans'', published in 2019 (). Olson is the author of ''The Long Journey to Software Valuation'', published in 2020 ().

References

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