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Editorial
Advisory Board

The BareMetal Comics Editorial Advisory Board enhances our strategy to develop the best cyber educational comic books that drive learner engagement while still keeping the content accurate, relevant, timely and interesting. Our board's expertise represents diverse industries, disciplines and institutions. We are grateful for their reviews, edits and ideas.

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Dr. Steve Crocker is CEO and co-founder of Shinkuro, Inc., a startup company focused on dynamic sharing of information across the Internet and the deployment of improved security protocols. Crocker's involvement with the Internet dates to its inception. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, he was part of the team that developed the protocols for the ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) and laid the foundation for today's Internet. Crocker also invented the Request for Comment series (RFC) and served as the chair of the board of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) from 2011-2017. In 2012, Crocker was inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame.

Dr. Steve Crocker

  • CEO and Co-Founder, Shinkuro Inc.

  • Former Chairman, ICANN

  • Co-Developer, ARPANET Protocols

  • Internet Hall of Fame Inductee

Mehmet Kilinc, CISSP, GCIA, is president of Stargate Technologies with over a decade of experience designing digital and embedded systems, including developing algorithms for application-specific integrated circuits (ASIC) and field-programmable gate array (FPGA) applications. Kilinc also holds eleven IT certifications. In 2014, Kilinc was awarded the Rick Perkins Award of Excellence in Technical Instruction while serving as director of the Information Security program at Gwinnett Technical College in Lawrenceville, Ga. Kilinc was part of a team that created the program.

Mehmet Kilinc

  • President, Stargate Technologies

  • Awardee, Rick Perkins Award of Excellence
    in Technical Instruction

  • Former Director, Gwinnett Technical College

  • Founder, Dennis Kneale Media

  • Former Anchor, CNBC and Fox

  • Former Editor, Forbes Magazine
    and The Wall Street Journal

Dennis Kneale is an independent journalist and media-strategy consultant in New York. Previously, Kneale spent six years as an anchor and senior correspondent at CNBC and Fox Business Network. Before that, he was the managing editor of Forbes magazine (1998-2007) after a 16-year stint at The Wall Street Journal, where he was a senior editor. He focuses on technology, media & entertainment, healthcare & science, and Wall Street and private equity.

Dennis Kneale

Andrew C. Kuchins, PhD, is a Russian scholar, specializing in Russian policy and security issues, author, and past president of American University of Central Asia. At present, Kuchins is an adjunct professor at The Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and visiting scholar at William & Mary. He has previously held senior positions at three world-class institutions — the Center for Strategic and International Studies, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, and the Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation — and teaching and research positions at the universities of Stanford, Georgetown, and UC Berkeley.

Dr. Andrew C.  Kuchins

  • Visiting Scholar, William & Mary

  • Former President, AU of Central Asia

  • Former Director, Carnegie Endowment
    for International Peace

Dan Lynch will be greatly missed by the technology community and BareMetal Comics LLC. We are grateful for his generousity and contributions to the field. Dan passed away on 30 March 2024, at 82. Dan Lynch was a private investor and co-founder of CyberCash Inc. In 1988, his Internet technology conference, INTEROP, advanced the commercial success of the Internet. As a developer, researcher and evangelist of the TCP/IP protocols, Lynch played a key role in driving global adoption of these protocols and fueling the Internet’s commercial success, public visibility and use. In the 1970s, as director of computing facilities at SRI International, Lynch ran the data center where the second ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) node was located. In 2019, He was inducted into the 2019 Internet Hall of Fame.

Dan Lynch  (1941-2024)

  • Private Investor

  • Co-Founder, CyberCash

  • Founder, INTEROP

  • Internet Hall of Fame Inductee

Randal Milch is the co-chair of the NYU Center for Cybersecurity, where he serves as Faculty Co-Director of the MS in Cybersecurity Risk and Strategy Program. Milch is also a Distinguished Fellow at the Reiss Center on Law and Security and a Professor of Practice at NYU School of Law. Before that, Milch served as general counsel and head of public policy at Verizon Communications. At Verizon, Milch chaired the Verizon Executive Security Council, which oversaw information security across all Verizon entities. Milch was responsible for national security matters at Verizon beginning in 2006, and served as the senior cleared executive at Verizon.

Randal S. Milch, JD

  • Co-Chair, NYU Center for Cybersecurity

  • Distinguished Fellow, Reiss Center
    on Law and Security

  • Former General Counsel, Verizon Communications

Sally Stewart is editor-in-chief of the online newsroom and associate director of Communications for one of the United States’ premiere academic medical centers. Prior to joining the healthcare sector in 2009, Stewart was a journalist for USA Today. After covering the O.J. Simpson murder trial, Sally became a public relations consultant and authored a communications how-to, Media Training 101: A Guide to Meeting the Press (Wiley).

Sally Stewart

  • Editor-in-Chief, Academic medical centers

  • Associate Communications Director

  • Former Journalist, USA Today

  • Author, Media Training 101

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