Gordon Agnew

Gord is Co-CEO and Chief Security Officer of Peer Ledger. He was a co-founder of Certicom Corporation, which when sold to Research in Motion (Blackberry) had a significant patent portfolio for mobile security. Gord’s career spans decades in academia, industry, and consulting. He’s held senior scientific positions at Certicom Corporation, University of Waterloo Computer Communications Research Group, and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology.

Gord has provided consulting services to government, banking, telecommunications and health care sectors in the areas of Wired and Wireless Communications systems, Cryptographic Systems, Protocols, Standards, Security Assessments, Cryptanalysis of Algorithm and the creation and use of electronic health care records and systems for long term secure storage.

Gord has been a member of several government and international standards setting committees. He is a Foundation Fellow of the Institute of Combinatorics and its Applications and a Fellow of the Canadian Academy of Engineering.