Dr. Rishabh Poddar is the CTO and Co-Founder of Opaque Systems. Rishabh received his PhD and MS degrees in Computer Science from UC Berkeley, and an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Kharagpur. Previously, Rishabh was a researcher at IBM Research and a management consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. Rishabh holds several US patents and has authored over 20 research papers in computer security, systems, and applied cryptography.