Sami Nassar is the Founder, President and Co-CEO of SecEdge, a digital security SaaS platform securing IoT and edge devices from chip to cloud. A semiconductor and cybersecurity veteran, he helped introduce the SIM card into GSM cellular networks in the 1990s, built one of the first cell-phone location-based services companies in the 2000s, and led digital security business lines at NXP Semiconductors and Renesas. He is a founding and board member of the FIDO Alliance and has advised the National Cyber Security Alliance and the EastWest Institute.
SecEdge is a Seattle-based digital security company that secures IoT and Edge devices from the silicon up to the cloud. Formed in 2023 by carving Privafy's IoT business out and acquiring embedded-security pioneer Sequitur Labs, the company packages hard problems - device identity, secure boot, key management, over-the-air updates and secure connectivity - into software products like the EmSPARK Security Suite, the EmPOWER lifecycle-management SaaS and SEC-TPM, a firmware TPM built in Arm TrustZone. Led by semiconductor and digital-security veteran Sami Nassar and chairman Rick Clemmer, SecEdge aims to make chip-to-cloud security something device makers can adopt off the shelf rather than build from scratch.
TAO Digital Solutions is a Santa Clara, California-based IT services and consulting firm founded in 2022 by serial entrepreneur Rajkumar (Raj) Velagapudi. It helps enterprises with product engineering, managed services, cybersecurity, payment solutions, cloud, data and AI-driven transformation. Backed by a 2024 growth investment from Vesper Company, TAO has scaled to roughly 3,000-3,650 professionals across offices in the Americas, Europe, Asia and Africa, and has pursued aggressive M&A to deepen capabilities in medtech, automotive and life sciences.