1. Taher Elgamal was born on 18 August 1955 and is an Egyptian-American cryptographer and tech executive.
10 Facts About Taher Elgamal
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Taher Elgamal earned a BSc from Cairo University in 1977, and MS and PhD degrees in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University in 1981 and 1984, respectively.
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Taher Elgamal joined the technical staff at HP Labs in 1984.
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Taher Elgamal served as chief scientist at Netscape Communications from 1995 to 1998, where he was a driving force behind Secure Sockets Layer.
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Taher Elgamal was the director of engineering at RSA Security Inc before founding Securify in 1998 and becoming its chief executive officer.
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Tumbleweed was acquired in 2008 by Axway Inc Until 2023, Taher Elgamal was CTO for security at Salesforce.
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Taher Elgamal is a co-founder of NokNok Labs and InfoSec Global.
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Taher Elgamal has served as an adviser to Cyphort, Bitglass, Onset Ventures, Glenbrook Partners, PGP corporation, Arcot Systems, Finjan, Actiance, Symplified, and Zetta.
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Taher Elgamal served as Chief Security Officer of Axway, Inc Taher Elgamal is vice chairman of SecureMisr.
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Taher Elgamal has held executive roles at technology and security companies, including.