Gerhard Eschelbeck

Gerhard Eschelbeck is the Chief Security Officer at Aurora, an American self-driving vehicle technology company.

Gerhard is a well-regarded information technology executive with strong operational and strategic experience. Passionate about championing new technologies, Gerhard has demonstrated success in launching innovative and successful companies, as well as building high-performance multi-national teams in the U.S., Europe and Asia.

Prior to Aurora, Gerhard served as Vice President Security & Privacy Engineering (CISO) at Google. Previously, he served as Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President at Sophos, Webroot and Qualys, and held senior product and technology roles at Network Associates and McAfee.

Gerhard published the “Laws of Vulnerabilities”, is one of the inventors of the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS), and holds numerous patents in the field of managed network security. He holds a Master of Science and Ph.D in Computer Science from The Johannes Kepler University Linz in Austria.