Dr. Anand Kashyap is the CEO and Co-Founder of Fortanix, a data-first security company and a pioneer in Confidential Computing. Anand has previously worked at Symantec and VMware, as a researcher and an engineer in the areas of security and networking. He has presented at Financial Cryptography and BlackHat conferences and has filed over 25 patents. Anand holds a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University and a Bachelor of Technology from IIT Kanpur, both in Computer Science.