Duc Pham

Duc Pham is the co-founder and President/CTO IDLogiq, responsible for all technical aspects of the product and operation.

Pham is an entrepreneur and thought leader in the cryptography/data encryption and cybersecurity space for more than 20 years. Prior to IDLogiq, he was the founder and CTO of Vormetric (acquired by Thales for $400 million in 2015), a leader in an information security company. Under his leadership, the Vormetric engineering team developed the most advanced enterprise-class, cross-platform information security protection system that can protect the data core even when the whole network and several other system components are compromised. Thanks to the architecture and unique inventions, Vormetric became the leader in enterprise information security technology, integrating encryption, access control, audit, and host integrity protection to provide a secure computing environment for high-profile clients in the financial and banking sectors as well as the US federal government. Pham also led and won major OEM agreements with IBM (Database Encryption Expert) and Symantec (Media Server Encryption Option).

Prior to Vormetric, Pham was the founder and CEO of Linux4 Networks, a leader in SSL encryption acceleration technology (acquired by Avaya in 2001), which achieved 160 times the performance of a high-end CPU with a single cryptographic accelerator module, resulting in humongous 16,000% TCO (Total Cost of Ownership) savings in system management, software licensing, power, hardware, network infrastructure, etc.

Pham has extensive experience in corporate strategy with a proven track record for product development, data security operations, enterprise software, electronic payment networks, mission-critical storage systems, and consumer and mobile computing. He invented the Vormetric data encryption technology.

Pham has 11 granted and 20 pending patents in the field of Cybersecurity/Data Encryption, Securing Messaging, Parallel Processing, Consumer/Mobile Computing, and Loyalty systems.