Toufic Boubez

Toufic has been passionate about machine learning for over 20 years. Prior to Metafor, he was the founder and CTO of Layer 7 Technologies, a leader in API security and management and recently acquired by CA. Prior to Layer 7, Toufic was the founding CTO of Saffron Technology, a big data analytics company specializing in associative memory technology. Toufic is also a well-known SOA and Web Services pioneer and was Chief Architect for Web Services at IBM’s Software Group. He was the co-editor of the W3C WS-Policy specification, and the co-author of the OASIS WS-Trust, WS-SecureConversation, and WS-Federation submissions. He is the author of many publications, articles and several books and is one of the co-authors of the SOA Manifesto. Toufic holds a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Rutgers University.