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Rick Martinez serves as a Fellow and Vice President for Client Solutions at Dell Technologies where his responsibilities include security strategy for Dell PCs focused on trusted and resilient platforms. In addition to his role as a strategist, he is an expert resource in secure development, governance and execution for Dell PCs and pan-Dell secure supply chain efforts.
He joined Dell in 1997, and over the next 24 years contributed to security strategy and architecture for BIOS, implementing many fundamental platform security features including Signed Firmware Update (NIST 800-147), TPM, and Trusted Execution Technology.