Wes Kussmaul
Wes was the sole founder in 1981 of Delphi Internet Services, "The Company That Popularized the Internet," joining AOL, CompuServe, and Prodigy at the forefront of early consumer access to the online world.In 1986 he launched a spinoff, Global Villages, Inc., to serve magazine publishers and business clients with their own private-label online services, including business planning, management, hosting, and promotion. Delphi was sold to Rupert Murdoch in 1993 and Global Villages' hosting business to NTT Verio in 1998.When in 1990 the U.S. National Science Foundation dropped its prohibition on the use of the Internet for commerce, one effect was to disrupt the provision of reliable identities of users of online services. Wes responded by focusing on the need for reliable identities of individuals on the Internet, starting with the development of the VIVOS Enrollment Workstation.