István is a cryptographer, computer scientist, and co-founder & CEO of Tresorit, a Swiss cloud encryption company. István earned his MSc degree with highest honours at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (BUTE). As a researcher of cryptographic key sharing and distributed systems at CrySys Labs, Hungary and the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), Switzerland, he specialized in cryptography engineering.
Being an advocate of privacy as a human right, István is passionate about raising awareness of the role of encryption in data security, and the challenges of creating policies and technologies that protect citizen’s privacy.