David Holtzman is a former security analyst and military code-breaker, a futurist, activist, technologist, technology executive, and writer. Throughout his career, he has led initiatives that have radically changed the way people interact with technology.

Holtzman is an Internet pioneer who helped oversee the Internet's growth from its infancy in the mid-1990s through the dot-com boom. As Chief Technology Officer of Network Solutions and the manager of the Internet's master root server, he ran the most critical network in the world - the domain name system - and oversaw the growth of the commercial Internet from 500,000 to over 20 million domain names