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Dr. Burger is chief technology officer at Neustar, Inc., a provider of market-leading and innovative services that enable trusted communication across networks, applications, and enterprises around the world. He is responsible for setting Neustar's forward-looking technology and service strategy and for devising the architecture to help strengthen the company's position by developing new services and solutions, particularly in the areas of converged addressing services, domain registry services, mobile instant messaging and managed DNS services. He also oversees the early stages of new technology development and works closely with Neustar's Operations team to drive the successful launch and commercialization of future IP services.
Dr. Burger has been the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the SIP Forum since 2007, and has been a board member since 2003. He has been a primary catalyst for tripling the number of full members in the SIP Forum due to the institution of programs that delivered tangible value to members, while not diluting the SIP Forum’s reputation as the protector of the SIP standard.
Dr. Burger is the author of 12 IETF RFCs. He also is involved with the following IETF technical committees:
Dr. Burger is a senior member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) and is vice chair of the IEEE-USA Committee on Communications Policy. He also is a senior member of the Association for Computing Machinery and a Patron of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. In addition, he sits on the Boards of Advisors at Mobera Systems, AGNITY, Sigma Systems and Dexrex LLC. Finally, Dr. Burger is holds 17 published patents in the United States with several pending, holds additional patents in other countries, and has been widely published in technical and standards publications.
Prior to joining Neustar, Dr. Burger was acting general manager of the Communications Products Division at BEA Systems, Inc., where he also held the posts of deputy chief technology officer and vice president of engineering. He also has served as chief technology officer at Cantata Technology, Inc. and Brooktrout, Inc.; founder and chief technology officer at SnowShore Networks, Inc.; chief scientist at Centigram Communications Corporation; vice president of engineering at The Telephone Connection, Inc.; manager of software development at Cable & Wireless USA, Inc.; consultant at MCI Telecommunications Corporation; in various engineering and sales management positions at Valid Logic Systems, Inc.; and research engineer at Texas Instruments, Inc. At the very outset of his career, Dr. Burger got his start with Unix in 1978, researching time-sharing system architectures.
Dr. Burger holds a Ph.D. from the Illinois Institute of Technology; an MBA in international business management with a dual minor in economics and marketing from the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium; and a bachelor's degree in engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
