Dwight C. Olson

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Dwight C. Olson
Occupation(s)technology escrow, author
Known forData Securities International

Dwight C. Olson was the founder of Data Securities International.

Education[edit]

Olson received a bachelor's degree in mathematics and teaching credentials from Augsburg University in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Accomplishments[edit]

Olson began his career in the research and development of supercomputers, parallel processing systems and related application architectures in the 1960s and 1970s.[1]

Olsen founded Data Securities International in 1982, which pioneered technology escrow and is known as the father of technology escrow.

Olson is a former chairman of the Board of Governors of Certified Licensing Professionals, Inc (CLP), a former President of the Licensing Executives Society, USA and Canada, and he has served as chair of LESI IP Valuation committee.[2]

Olson was an associate member of the American Bar Association's Electronic Commerce Law and Information Security Committee working on the ABA's Digital Signature Guidelines.[3]

Olson is the author of Northern Lights: the beauty of the Forgotten Scandinavian Enamel Artisans, published in 2019 (ISBN 978-0-578-44439-0).[4]

Olson is the author of The Long Journey to Software Valuation, published in 2020 (ISBN 978-1-7344129-0-1).[5]

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