Ed Giorgio is the founder and president 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. 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.