Shannon Holland

Shannon Holland is a founder and CTO of CipherTrace where he leads research and development of CipherTrace’s advanced cryptocurrency forensics tools. Mr. Holland has 20 years of experience in developing secure and scalable computer technology. He is a distinguished software engineer with a broad range of experience, ranging from low-level software and hardware design to large-scale application servers. Additionally, Mr. Holland was an early bitcoin miner.

Prior to CipherTrace, Mr. Holland was the Lead Threat Intelligence Engineer at Marble Security where he led the R&D of mobile app threat intelligence and analyzed over 2 million IOS and Android apps across various marketplaces. He also led the research and development of the IronKey security devices, including their cryptography, key management, firmware and hardware design. Shannon is the co-inventor of numerous security and cryptography patents, and produced the first certified tamper-proof, FIPS 140-2 Level 3 mobile device.

Early in his career Mr. Holland worked on the OS team at Apple Computer where he significantly optimized many portions of QuickDraw and built the Macintosh Color Picker. During his consulting career he has enjoyed success improving Netscape Communications browser memory management and developing security hardware security implementations for the Health Hero Buddy and Danger Hiptop.

Mr. Holland holds a Bachelor of Science, Computer Science from the University of Melbourne, Australia.