This is the bio of Dr. Taher Elgamal, CTO Security at salesforce.com and keynote speaker at the BayPay Forum event on Digital Identity and Authentication held on May 21, 2014.
Dr. Taher Elgamal is an internationally respected information security leader and cryptographer. He was the recipient of the lifetime achievement award from the RSA conference in 2009. He was successfully served as CISO, Chief Scientist, CTO, as well as founder and CEO of numerous key organizations. Dr. Elgamal invented several industry and government standards in data security and digital signatures for areas including the DSS government standard for digital signatures. He is recognized in the industry as the "father" of SSL.