Chuck Wade is a founding Principal at Interisle Consulting Group.

Mr. Wade focuses on the architecture, technologies, and operation of financial industry communication networks, with particular expertise in Internet payments and eCommerce security. Sought after as a practitioner, speaker and teacher, he has served in various leadership roles during a career spanning over a quarter century. He has served as a Senior Researcher at CommerceNet, and as a Principal Consultant in the Information Security Group of BBN Technologies.

At BBN, he led Electronic Commerce initiatives and client engagements, with most of his consulting work within the Financial Industry. As one of the original participants in the FSTC eCheck Project, Mr. Wade has been involved with over-the-Internet electronic payments since the mid 1990's. He also contributed directly to the architecture, design, deployment and testing of various large, mission-critical networks, including the trading floor network for one of the world's most important Stock Exchanges.

Mr. Wade spent all of the '90s with BBN (now a part of Verizon) as a Consultant and Systems Architect. During most of the '80s, he worked at Motorola directing the Advanced Technology Group for their Codex division. He has also worked in the minicomputer industry and university research. He holds Sc.B. and Sc.M. degrees in Electrical Engineering from Brown University.