Ejovi Nuwere (born 1980 is an American security engineer and entrepreneur. He was the co-founder of Google funded wireless company
Fon and Microsoft funded analytics company Ivy Softworks.
Early life
Nuwere's early life is documented in his autobiography, ''Hacker cracker: a journey from the mean streets of Brooklyn to the frontiers of cyberspace'', written with
David Chanoff. Despite the title, it is not focused solely on hacking. Nuwere writes about his mother's battle with drug addiction and her death and his families episodes of homelessness. The book was published by W. Morro in 2002 ().
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Before he finished high school, he had established a life in the security research community as a member of w00w00
w00w00 (pronounced whoo-whoo) was a computer security think tank founded in 1996 and still active until the early 2000s. Although this group was not well known outside Information security circles, its participants have spawned more than a dozen ...
and an increasingly prominent career as a computer security consultant. At the age of twenty he was a security specialist for one of the world's largest financial houses.
Career
Nuwere has founded a number of companies in the media and security space.
SecurityLab Technologies
Nuwere founded the VOIP security company SecurityLab and was selected by Business Week as one of the top young entrepreneurs under 25.
Kaori-san
Kaori-san is Japan's first virtual assistant service. The company launched in July 2013 as a spinout from Land Rush Group.
Re:mark
Re:mark is a joint venture with Japan's 4th largest newspaper publisher Sankei. Re:mark is a commenting system similar to Disqus and serves as 40M unique users across Japan per month. Acquired in 2013.
Fon
Nuwere was the North American founder of the wireless company Fon, at one time the largest WiFi network in the world.
The Infrastructure of Democracy
In 2005 Nuwere gathered in Spain with a group of internet luminaries and security specialist that included Joi Ito
is a Japanese entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He is a former director of the MIT Media Lab, former professor of the practice of media arts and sciences at MIT, and a former visiting professor of practice at the Harvard Law School. Ito has ...
, Jeff Moss
Jeffrey Arnold "Jeff" Moss (June 19, 1942 – September 24, 1998) was an American composer, lyricist, playwright and television writer, best known for his award-winning work on the children's television series ''Sesame Street''.
Early life
...
, Chris Goggans and Dan Gillmore at the Madrid Summit to address the issue of terrorism and the internet. The result of the invite only conference attended by Kofi Annan
Kofi Atta Annan (; 8 April 193818 August 2018) was a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh secretary-general of the United Nations from 1997 to 2006. Annan and the UN were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize. He was the founde ...
and several Prime Ministers was document shared among the worlds politicians that addressed how to best fight terrorism while protecting the freedoms associated with the web.
Columbia Music Entertainment
Nuwere led Columbia Music Entertainment
, often pronounced ''Korombia'', operating internationally as , is a Japanese record label founded in 1910 as Nipponophone Co., Ltd. It affiliated itself with the Columbia Graphophone Company of the United Kingdom and adopted the standard UK C ...
's R&D division working with CEO Sadahiko Hirose
is the president of Columbia Music Entertainment. He received both undergraduate and master's degrees from Keio University. Mr. Hirose, who was formerly CEO and President of NetHome, became the CEO of Columbia as of January 1, 2004.
Sadahiko Hir ...
CTO Jordan Ritter
Jordan Ritter (born February 1, 1978) is an American serial entrepreneur, software architect and angel investor. He is best known for his work at Napster, the file-sharing service he co-founded along with Shawn Fanning and others. His time at N ...
, a childhood friend from his early computer security days. The team began building a Japanese-based, competition-oriented promotional platform for new artists called Otorevo. Despite the measurable successes of Otorevo, the company's Board of Directors voted to terminate all R&D projects in March 2008.
Sankei Shimbun
Nuwere has been a technology columnist for Sankei Shimbun
The (short for ) is a daily newspaper in Japan published by the It has the seventh-highest circulation for regional newspapers in Japan. Among Japanese newspapers, the circulation is second only to ''Yomiuri Shimbun'', Seikyo Shimbun, ''Asa ...
, one of Japan's largest newspaper publishers since 2011.
Juki Net
Nuwere was hired as a security researcher by the Governor of Nagano to audit Japan's National ID system Basic Resident Registers Network
The or is a national registry of Japanese citizens. It was ruled constitutional by the Supreme Court of Japan on March 6, 2008 amidst strong opposition.
The percentage of popularization of the smartcard (called ''Juki-card'') is so low ratio t ...
. The audit uncovered a number of serious security flaws with national repercussions. When he attempted to discuss the security audit in public with permission of the Governor of Nagano the national government prevented the presentation. Nuwere sued the national government for violation of free speech, the first foreigner to ever do so in Japan.[http://news.techworld.com/security/2662/security-critic-sues-japanese-government/ ]
References
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Living people
American computer businesspeople
1980 births