David Silva

David William Silva is a Ph.D computer scientist. He is responsible for translating business strategies and objectives into efficient, user-friendly, secure, and privacy-preserving data-centric solutions to enable organizations to extract maximum value from data correctly. David started his career as a Software Engineer focused on web services and agile software development. This experience led him to be involved with several projects, from startups to government and large corporations in many different fields. After 17 years of conducting R&D in Brazil, David moved to the US to engage in scientific research applied to a global industry of security and privacy, which has been his focus for the past nine years.

Joseph Gridley

Kevin McCarthy

Kevin is currently Vice President of Business Development at Inpher. In his role, Kevin leads the go-to-market functions for the deployment and implementation of Inpher’s privacy-preserving data analytics software, XOR Platform, and its award-winning tools in the fully homomorphic encryption space, TFHE and Chimera. Previously, Kevin was the Enterprise General Manager at DemystData where he led corporate strategy, product and team development. Earlier, as Demyst’s Chief Customer Officer, Kevin built out and managed the company’s revenue development, enterprise accounts and service team across global offices in New York, Hong Kong, Singapore and Melbourne. Prior to DemystData, Kevin was a Specialist at McKinsey & Company focusing on advanced analytic solution development within healthcare and financial services organizations. Kevin spent the majority of his time at McKinsey serving Public and Private institutions in support of their efforts to develop and deploy AI and ML solutions within heavily regulated constructs and data privacy constraints. Kevin has experience with a similar project that was performed for TennCare Episodes of Care, which involved program management for multi-institutional algorithmic development across United Healthcare, Blue Cross Blue Shield, Aetna and the State of Tennessee.

Dr. Walden “Wally” Rhines

WALDEN C. RHINES is President & CEO of Cornami. He is also CEO Emeritus of Mentor, a Siemens business, focusing on external communications and customer relations. He was previously CEO of Mentor Graphics for 23 years and Chairman of the Board for 17 years. During his tenure at Mentor, revenue nearly quadrupled and market value of the company increased 10X.

Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, Dr. Rhines was Executive Vice President, Semiconductor Group, responsible for TI’s worldwide semiconductor business. During his 21 years at TI, he was President of the Data Systems Group and held numerous other semiconductor executive management positions.

Dr. Rhines has served on the boards of Cirrus Logic, QORVO, TriQuint Semiconductor, Global Logic and as Chairman of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium (five two-year terms) and is currently a director. He is also a board member of the Semiconductor Research Corporation and First Growth Children & Family Charities. He is a Lifetime Fellow of the IEEE and has served on the Board of Trustees of Lewis and Clark College, the National Advisory Board of the University of Michigan and Industrial Committees advising Stanford University and the University of Florida.

Dr. Rhines holds a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering from the University of Michigan, a Master of Science and PhD in materials science and engineering from Stanford University, a master of Business Administration from Southern Methodist University and Honorary Doctor of Technology degrees from the University of Florida and Nottingham Trent University.

Orrie Dinstein

Shashi Gowda

Shashi Gowda is CEO and co-founder of Devr and a member of its board of directors.  A seasoned technology leader and entrepreneur, Shashi brings over 20 years of experience in the telecommunications, big data and emerging tech industries.

Devr provides tools for enterprises to design and orchestrate data privacy, enabling rich open ecosystems for data monetization with continuous compliance.

Shashi champions advances in digital transformation, data privacy and continuous compliance using emerging technologies such as Blockchain and AI.  He is passionate about bringing technologies into highly regulated industries which enable them to innovate with data, in an era of growing privacy concerns, regulatory complexity, and high costs of non-compliance.

Before founding Devr, Shashi was CTO of Virtual Control and supported the sale of its AI and ML solutions to Agilent Technologies.  Prior to that, Shashi held various technology design and leadership roles, at both corporates and at early-stage companies, and has worked across Asia, Europe, and the US.

Shashi earned his bachelor’s degree in bio-medical engineering from Boston University.

Andrew Bjerken

Nick New

Founded Optalysys in 2013 with twenty years experience in Fourier optical processing, having previously spun Cambridge Correlators Ltd. out of the University of Cambridge from technology developed during PhD in Optical Pattern Recognition.