Operational Management Team

Gerd PfeifferCEO

  • Studied Electrical Engineering at Braunschweig University of Technology, Germany

  • More than 9 years of experience in FPGA based computer engineering and practical cryptanalysis

  • More than a dozen peer-reviewed scientific publications and invited talks

Stefan BaumgartChief Technology Officer / Chief Hardware Engineer

  • Previous academic positions with Braunschweig University of Technology and Kiel University, taught graduate practical laboratory courses in FPGA programming and digital design

  • More than 15 years of experience in FPGA based computer engineering, software engineering and practical cryptanalysis

  • More than a dozen peer-reviewed scientific publications and invited talks

Tim PietruckVice President Customer Solutions

  • MBA from Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University in The Netherlands

  • More than 14 years of experience in IT sales & marketing in biosciences, IT-security and HPC

  • Extended stays abroad in Australia, Mexico, Switzerland, The Netherlands, USA

Non-Executive Directors

Dr. Hagen Hultzsch
Former Member of the Executive Board of Deutsche Telekom AG
Gerhard Schindler
Former President of the Bundesnachrichtendienst

Scientific Advisory Board

Prof. Dr. Peter SchwabeHead of Scientific Advisory Board
Professor at the Institute for Computing and Information Sciences at Radboud University, Nijmegen (Netherlands)
and a tenured faculty member (Forschungsgruppenleiter) at the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy, Bochum (Germany)