Taher Elgamal

Dr. Taher Elgamal is an industry veteran in Internet security. He is the inventor of the Elgamal Digital Signature scheme, which is the basis for Digital Signature Algorithm (DSA). While serving as Chief Scientist of Netscape Communications, he was the driving force behind SSL. Dr. Elgamal was the r ecipient of the 2009 RSA conference Lifetime achievement award. Network World chose him as one of 20 people who changed the industry. Dr. Elgamal serves as the CTO, Security for Salesforce. He was the founder and CEO of Securify, and was the director of engineering at RSA Security Inc. prior to Joining Netscape in 1995 and founding Securify in 1998. Dr. Elgamal has served on many public and private boards. He also served and is serving on advisory boards of many security and software companies. Dr. Elgamal has a MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University and BS in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University.