Richard is the Vice President of Confidential Computing at Fortanix and currently the Chair of the End-User Advisory Council as well as General Member’s Representative to the Governing Board of the Confidential Computing Consortium. He gained a Doctorate in Business Administration from Henley Business School by developing a formal mathematical model of perceptual change and has had an extensive career in systems engineering, with recent projects in the field of natural language processing and computational propaganda. By leveraging the integrity and confidentiality guarantees offered by Intel® SGX; Richard is currently working with Fortanix’ customers to enable secure applications deployment, multi-party computation and data analytics, at scale, using private and public cloud infrastructures.