About Profian
Profian delivers Confidential Computing solutions that solve for security of data in use, a well-known vulnerability of cloud computing.
We help security teams seamlessly create private environments on public cloud hardware so organizations can enjoy the speed, scale and cost-saving benefits of cloud computing for even the most sensitive workloads. Our solution builds on the open source project Enarx, of which Profian is the custodian.
Profian was founded in 2021 by two Red Hat security experts with a mission to solve one of the most complex challenges facing security teams today.
Our Values
Integrity
We value honesty and clarity in our company, our products and our partnerships.
Openness
We are committed to working in the open and publishing our code as open source software.
Security
Security is non-negotiable and the guiding principle for how we operate.
Transparency
We believe in transparency with our customers, partners and the open source community.
Careers
We are a globally-distributed team working on a new category of open source security technology. We don’t mind where you live, or whether you want to work from a traditional office or from your “back porch office.” Ideas flow when people are comfortable. Challenging work can be done from anywhere.
So wherever you are, if you’re up for the challenge of taking a new solution to market we encourage you to apply. Your work will have an immediate impact on our customers and our company’s growth.
Leadership
CEO
Mike Bursell
Mike is the co-founder and CEO of Profian. He is also co-founder of Enarx, the leading open source framework for running applications in TEEs (Trusted Execution Environments). Mike is on the governing board of the Confidential Computing Consortium and the Bytecode Alliance. Prior roles include Chief Security Architect at Red Hat, Security Architect at Intel and Deputy Chair of the ETSI NFV Security Working Group. Mike is also an inventor with 58 patents as well as the author of the recently published “Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud” and long-running security blog, Alice, Eve & Bob. He lives near Cambridge, in the UK.
CTO
Nathaniel McCallum
Nathaniel is the co-founder and CTO of Profian. He is also co-founder of Enarx, the leading open source framework for running applications in TEEs (Trusted Execution Environments). Nathaniel is a founding member of the Bytecode Alliance and a member of the Confidential Computing Consortium. He has been engineering systems at scale for more than 15 years, with an emphasis on cryptography and security. Prior roles include Virtualization Security Architect at Red Hat and roles at Fedora, Cypress, IBM and Canonical. Nathaniel is also an inventor with 28 patents as well as co-creator of the McCallum-Relyea protocol (one of the three known key-exchange protocols).
VP of Marketing
Jen Wike Huger
Jen spent 10 years in digital marketing at Red Hat growing a community of contributors and an audience of 3M+ readers for Opensource.com and the digital communities team.
CRO
Steve Street
Steve is a veteran of the cybersecurity and cloud computing markets. He is the founder and chair of Tantallon and non-exec chair of Climategames.
VP of Engineering
Dmitri Pal
Dmitri has more than 25 years of experience in the development of security-related software, as an engineer and as a manager. Dmitri previously worked at RSA Security, focusing on the RSA Authentication Manager and SecurID. He then spent fifteen years at Red Hat.
Investors
Project A Ventures
Seed Investor
Illuminate Financial
Seed Investor
Jim Whitehurst
Special Advisor
Silver Lake
Olivier Pomel
CEO
Datadog
Sarah Novotny
Board member
Linux Foundation
Till Schneidereit
Chairman
Bytecode Alliance
Tyler McMullen
CTO
Fastly