Ben Smeets is a Senior Expert in Trusted Computing at Ericsson Research. He is also a professor at Lund University, from where he holds a Ph.D. in information theory. In 1998, he joined Ericsson and contributed to Bluetooth, mobile platform security, and embedded SIM. In 2005, he received the Ericsson Inventor of the Year Award and is currently working on trusted computing technologies and security in cloud computing systems.