Ben Adida is director of engineering at Clever. His passion is using technology to empower people. Ben has done extensive work in identity & online payments, secure voting, personal health records, and the broader Web. He has developed free software for 15 years and Web software for 18 years. Previously, Ben was director of engineering at Mozilla and research faculty at Harvard Medical School. He was CC’s CTO at the time of CC’s 2002 launch. Ben received his Ph.D. at MIT in the Cryptography and Information Security group.