Peter Landrock

Peter Landrock is the President of Cryptomathic, which he founded with two fellow cryptographers in 1986 as a spin-off from the University of Aarhus, Denmark. The company was one of the first in the world to commercialize cryptographic algorithms, and Peter Landrock continuously aims at keeping Cryptomathic at the cutting edge of technology to the benefit of the company's customers and business partners.

Peter Landrock obtained his Ph.D. in mathematics in 1974 from the University of Chicago and started working with data security in 1984. He served as President of the International Association for Cryptologic Research from 1992 to 1995, and continued as a member of the Board of Directors until 2001.

At the University of Aarhus he has built one of the leading research teams in Data Security in Europe. He has been a visiting professor at a number of universities, including: IAS Princeton, Cambridge, Essen, Mainz, Oxford and Leuven. Peter Landrock served on the Technical Advisory Board of the Microsoft Research Lab at Cambridge University, UK from 1997 to 2010. He holds an honorable professorship in mathematics at the University of Aarhus and is a senior member at Wolfson College, Cambridge University. He was a member of the Danish IT Security Council as an adviser to the Danish Government from 1995 to 2002. In 2010 he was nominated for the European Inventor Award by The European Patent Office and the European Commission for lifelong achievements in encryption technologies.

Peter is a committed real tennis player (also known as royal tennis and courte-paume) and possibly the second best Danish player.