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This list showcases the top California, United States based President operating in the Privacy space. If you think a President 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.
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Raluca Ada Popa
President of Opaque
Raluca Ada Popa is an associate professor of computer science at UC Berkeley. Her research is in security and applied cryptography.Raluca has developed practical systems that protect data confidentiality by computing over encrypted data as well as designed novel encryption schemes. Raluca received her PhD in computer security as well as two BS degrees, in computer science and in mathematics, from MIT. She is the recipient of an Intel Early Career Faculty Honor award, George M. Sprowls Award for best MIT CS doctoral thesis, a Google PhD Fellowship, a Johnson award for best CS Masters of Engineering thesis from MIT, and a CRA Outstanding undergraduate award from the ACM.
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About Opaque, PreVeil: Opaque is a startup that helps organizations analyze encrypted data in the cloud.
Rehan Jalil
Founder, President and CEO of Securiti
Rehan Jalil is an Entrepreneur, Investor and Limited Partner in technology venture funds. Currently, he is the President, Founder and CEO of SECURITI.ai, the Cloud Services Security Company. He has been Venture Advisor at Mayfield Fund. Rehan Jalil is currently the CEO of SECURITI.ai. He was the SVP and GM for Cloud Security at Symantec, leading research and development for Cloud Security and helping to extend the reach of Symantec enterprise security products to cloud. Rehan came into Symantec with $4.7B acquisition of Bluecoat, where he ran cloud security. He came into BlueCoat via the $280M acquisition of Elastica, that he founded and ran as CEO. Elastica innovated CASB and drove it to become an important security category. Prior to that he was the founder and chief executive officer of WiChours, an innovator in deep packet inspection centered packet core, which was used to deploy some of the earliest 4G networks. WiChorus was acquired by Tellabs for $180M. Previously, he was Chief Architect at Aperto and helped innovate multicore processors at Sun Microsystems. He was named Ernst & Young Entrepreneur finalist in 2010 and Top 25 Disruptor in 2015. He holds an AMP from Harvard Business School, an MSEE from Purdue University and a BS from NED University.
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About Securiti: AI Powered Data Security & Privacy | “Most Innovative Startup” RSA | Forrester Wave Leader
Tanveer Zamir
Vice President Engineering of Securiti
Tanveer Zamir is the Vice President of Engineering at SECURITI.ai He is a former Head of System Engineering at Elastica. Tanveer has over 15 years’ experience in leading high velocity engineering teams responsible for developing test and monitoring products in communications space. Worked on projects ranging from distributed Linux applications to real-time embedded platform design for packet processing and storage.
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About Securiti: AI Powered Data Security & Privacy | “Most Innovative Startup” RSA | Forrester Wave Leader
Michael Rinehart
Vice President Data Science of Securiti
Michael Rinehart is the Vice President of Data Science at SECURITI.ai. He has applied cutting-edge and large-scale machine learning in numerous domains, including defense and marketing. At BAE Systems, he lead the development of machine learning based jamming system for rapidly identifying and denying communication of wireless threats.
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About Securiti: AI Powered Data Security & Privacy | “Most Innovative Startup” RSA | Forrester Wave Leader
Michael Bradbury
Vice President, Risk Management of Securitas
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About Securitas, SpaceFace: Securitas is a security platform that offers electronic security, risk management, fire, and safety solutions.
Stephen Hughes
Vice President of LiveEnsure
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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
Elaine Ou
President R&D of PrivacyShell Corp
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About PrivacyShell Corp: We build crypto-blockchain startups that incorporate privacy & security by design.