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This list showcases the top California, United States based CTO’ operating in the Privacy space. If you think a CTO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Michael Egorov
Co-founder & CTO of NuCypher
Michael Egorov is the Founder & CEO at Curve Finance.Michael is a physicist and scientist from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology. A bronze medalist in the 2003 International Physics Olympiad, he studied ultra-cold atoms as a post-doc.
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About Curve Finance, LoanCoin, NuCypher: NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols.
Andrew Colombi
CTO and Co-Founder of Tonic.ai
Andrew Colombi is the CTO and Co-Founder at Tonic. Upon completing his PhD in Computer Science and Astrodynamics at UIUC in 2008, Andrew joined Palantir, leading the team of engineers that launched the company into the commercial sector. Later he began Palantir’s Foundry product, growing it into a keystone of the company’s offering. His extensive work in analytics across a full spectrum of industries gives him an in-depth understanding of the complex realities captured in data. He is building Tonic’s platform to reverse engineer data that parallels those realities and supply development teams with the resource-saving tools they most need.
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About Tonic.ai: Tonic mimics your production data to create safe, useful, de-identified data for QA, testing, and development.
Alexander Klizhentas
Co-Founder & CTO of Teleport
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About Teleport: Teleport enables engineers to quickly access any computing resource anywhere.
Priyadarshan Kolte
Co-Founder & CTO of Baffle
Priyadarshan Kolte is the CTO at Baffle
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About Baffle: Baffle protects data in the cloud by securing the data analytics pipeline for modern enterprises without any code changes or disruption.
Eric Xu
Co-Founder and CTO of Globe
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About Globe: Globe provides a real estate platform that allows people to live more comfortably.
Philipp Berner
Co-Founder and CTO of Keepsafe
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About Keepsafe: KeepSafe is a cloud-based digital platform that allows users to control the privacy of their digital content.
Chaks Chigurupati
Chief Technology Officer of Securiti
Chaks Chigurupati is the Chief Technology Officer at SECURITI.ai. He is the former head of Architecture at Elastica. Deep expertise in architecture and design of reliable software systems in networking and computing. Previously spent 10 years at Cisco and architected and implemented various product functionalities, including the highest end CRS core routers.
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About Securiti: AI Powered Data Security & Privacy | “Most Innovative Startup” RSA | Forrester Wave Leader
Andy Hsieh
Co-Founder and CTO of Miso
Andy Hsieh is the co-founder and CTO at Miso Technologies. Prior to co-founding Miso, Andy served as a postdoctoral researcher at Cornell Tech.
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About Miso: Building the future of search and discovery with API-powered personalization
Serge Egelman
CTO / Co-Founder of AppCensus
Serge Egelman is the CTO at AppCensus.
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About AppCensus, The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI): Privacy Analysis as a Service. At Scale.
Nong Li
CTO & Co-Founder of Okera
Nong co-founded Okera in 2016. Prior to that, he led performance engineering for Spark core and SparkSQL at Databricks. Before Databricks, he served as the tech lead for the Impala project at Cloudera. Nong is also one of the original authors of the Apache Parquet project. He has a bachelor’s in computer science from Brown University.
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About Okera: Okera provides secure data access at scale so that data teams have the confidence to unlock the power of their data for innovation & growth
Christian Hessler
CTO of LiveEnsure
Christian Hessler is a technology entreprenuer and engineer who designs, develops, protects and evangelizes disruptive innovations for web, cloud and mobile. His R&D interests are: security, digital media, gamification and augmented reality. He is the founder of several successful startups in the US, Europe, Middle East and Asia, working with Microsoft, IBM, HP, Sony, Intel and others. Previously, Christian led agile engineering organizations at Sun Microsystems, Computer Associates, Citysearch and First American Bank. His latest venture is @liveensure, a Silicon Valley startup revolutionizing interactive user authentication on smart devices.
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About LiveEnsure: Peer to Peer Authentication for the Crowd, Not the Cloud
David P. Maher
Executive Vice President and CTO of Intertrust
David Maher has over 30 years of experience in secure computing and is responsible for Research and Development at Intertrust. Before joining Intertrust in 1999, he was Chief Scientist for AT&T Secure Communications Systems, Head of the Secure Systems Research Department, and security architect for AT&T’s Internet services platform. After joining Bell Labs in 1981, Maher developed secure communications, information vending, and e-commerce systems. He was Chief Architect for AT&T’s STU-III secure voice, data, and video products used by the White House and Department of Defense for top-secret communications. In 1992, Maher became a Bell Labs Fellow in recognition of his accomplishments in communications security. Maher holds multiple patents in secure computing; has published papers in the fields of mathematics and computer science; and has consulted with the National Science Foundation, National Security Agency, National Institute of Standards and Technology, and the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment. Maher holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from Lehigh University. He has taught electrical engineering, mathematics, and computer science at several institutions.
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About Intertrust, Intertrust: Intertrust is a software company providing trusted computing products and services to leading global corporations
Tom Saichek
CTO and Certified Level 1 Eloqua Consultant of 4Thought Marketing
I have over 20 years of expanded responsibility in Business Systems. I have been responsible for enterprise-wide project implementation as well as line level executive management. I have been at the forefront of marketing and sales automation and sales force productivity for over two decades. During that time, I have developed and successfully implemented a variety of customer and sales-centric systems designed to improve customer interaction and sales success. I bring a wealth of experience dealing on the business side of systems problems. I have been extremely successful bridging the gap between business needs and technical constraints. For the past 10 years I have been focused on the software industry, and have been involved on both the product development side as well as the enterprise implementation side of CRM initiatives.
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About 4Thought Marketing: 4Thought Marketing is an application development and privacy compliance services company founded in 2008.
Chris Heller
Chief Technology Officer of Appsian
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About Appsian: Data Security and Privacy Software for traditional ERP applications such as SAP, Peoplesoft, Oracle EBS etc.