Taher Elgamal

Taher advises Clearvision Ventures on cybersecurity matters and enjoys meeting with cybersecurity entrepreneurs as well as customers. He is currently the CTO of Security at Salesforce, and is an internationally renowned information security luminary. Taher is recognized as the “Father of SSL” encryption, the industry standard for internet security and ecommerce, as well as the inventor of other industry and government standards, including the DSS government standard for digital signatures. He is the recipient of the RSA Lifetime Achievement Award, as well as the Marconi Prize. Taher has extensive experience as a founder, CTO, CEO and CISO of numerous successful organizations, including RSA, Netscape, Tumbleweed Communications, Securify and NokNok Labs.

Taher has a PhD in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from Stanford University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from Cairo University.