Ed Giorgio is the founder of Bridgery Technologies and was the co-founder and CEO of Ponte Technologies, a security and technology company that was recently acquired by KEYW Corporation. He was formerly a principal at Booz Allen Hamilton, where he spent 10 years working on information security and enterprise resilience issues for a variety of commercial clients and federal agencies. Mr. Giorgio also has nearly 30 years of security experience with the National Security Agency (NSA). While at NSA, he pioneered developments in communications security, national intelligence policy and technology, and public key cryptography. Mr. Giorgio is the only person to have served as both Chief U.S. codemaker and, subsequently, as Chief U.S. codebreaker at NSA where he directly managed 1600 mathematicians and computer scientists. As a mathematician, he designed and delivered the first public key based e-mail privacy and authentication system on the worldwide intelligence network. Today he leads a virtual R&D organization (Bridgery) that takes a deep science approach to the detection of malicious activity in computer networks. Mr. Giorgio is considered a leading authority on cryptography where he holds patents. In 2015 he was a panel member on the cryptographer’s panel at the RSA conference. His research interests include cryptography and data science, where the latter are focused on hidden Markov models, machine learning, Bloom filters, Internet metadata graphs, and predictive analytics.

​Rich Wisniewski was a crypto-mathematician with the National Security Agency for 35 years before retiring in 2009. While academically trained in mathematics, statistics, and the then fledgling field of computer science, his primary interests has always been in abstract algebra. His NSA career  has afforded him the unique opportunity to apply his theoretical knowledge to numerous computational platforms from the late 1960's thru the present to solve mathematical research, cryptographic and cryptanalytic problems. Post retirement, he was a Ponte Technologies consultant on the IARPA Quantum Computer Science program before joining the Bridgery team. Recently, he has focused on the R&D associated with real-time storage and processing of netflow and DNS Internet metadata.