István is one of the inventors of Tresorit’s patented encryption technology. He is a passionate cryptographer since age 12 and was recently recognized by Forbes as one of the 30 most notable Tech people under the age of 30 in Europe (30 under 30).
The Tresorit Story
Our story started when Istvan Lam, only 12, received his first cryptography book as a gift from his family. It sparked his interest in security and led him to start his fight for digital privacy in his late teens. 10 years after he first heard of cryptography, he founded Tresorit with 2 other students and the head of a leading IT security institution.
They shared the belief that people have a right to their privacy, even when they share and collaborate online. Not pleased with how large companies exploit internet users' information they started to develop a solution that lets people decide who can access their data, without taking away from the ease of use which made cloud storage services popular. Another priority was to keep it as simple as possible, so that people don’t need to learn new ways of doing things to keep themselves secure.
Today, Tresorit is a 50 people company – where cryptographers, developers, designers and storytellers coexist in peace and harmony.
To demonstrate how much we believe in the capabilities of our secure system, we invited hackers and researchers from around the world to hack it for a prize. Professionals have been trying to get into our servers for 500 days, but nobody could ’win’ this $50,000 prize.
We NEVER collect or store your files, encryption keys and passwords in unencrypted or invertible form. Files and some corresponding encryption keys can only be decrypted by the people you have explicitly shared with.
Meet the Tresorit Team
Management
As our CIO, Szilveszter continuously develops our technology further and solves encryption challenges that other companies cannot solve. He is an algorithms’ whiz and spends some of his free time creating challenges for coding competitions.
As our Chief Product Officer, Gyorgy is obsessed with user experience. With an MSc in Finance, he combines both technical and business knowledge, so he can translate our customers' needs into great new security features.
Andrea Skaliczki
Head of Finance
As Head of Finance, Andrea supports our ambitious growth plans with solid financial strategies. Before handling finances at Tresorit, Andrea spent 10 years at KPMG where she led accounting, treasury and controlling - so she knows first-hand how important it is to protect confidential financial documents.
Fred, one of our investors, joined Tresorit as VP Sales to boost business development. His international sales background, combined with his experience in starting a Web 2.0 healthcare company, provide a strong foundation for adding to Tresorit’s success.
David is SVP of our platform business & product in San Francisco. He’s on a mission to empower developers to deliver unbreakable data privacy and security to their customers. Before David joined Tresorit, he spent 12 years at Microsoft across 4 countries in engineering, UX and business leadership roles and launched his own social network analysis startup.
Non-executive board members
Andreas is an early Investor in Tresorit and actively involved on the Board. An Entrepreneur at heart he was the Co-founder and CEO of Scala Business Solutions N.V, acquired by Epicor. Founder of Fathom Technology, merged with EPAM (NYSX) and UCMS Group Ltd. Early Investor in LogMeIn (NASDAQ) and Quinyx AB.
Marton Anka
Member of the Board
Marton Anka is Co-Founder and former CTO of LogMeIn (NASDAQ), one of the world's top 10 SaaS companies. He played a crucial part in growing LogMeIn to a market leader in enterprise conferencing and remote access solutions. In 2013,he launched Caret, a new venture allowing smartphone users to share their address book and availability information in a revolutionizing new way.
Chris is an early investor in Tresorit and works with us as a COO. His previous experiences and success in both corporate and from-scratch start-up environments is a great asset in daily decision making processes. Previously he was co-founder and CEO of Quantrix, a startup focusing on analytics software, and CEO of Scala Business Solutions.
An entrepreneur and investor with a business background and solid technical experience. Founded several startups, the latest being Indextools, a software company specializing in enterprise on-demand web analytics software. In April 2008 Indextools was acquired by Yahoo! Inc.
Peter started his career as an investment analyst in 1993. Two years later he became a partner at the private equity firm Euroventures running, consecutively, four successful venture capital and private equity programs in Hungary, and neighboring countries.
Felix Suter
Felix, a Swiss national, graduated from the University of Zurich and holds a degree as an Attorney at law. With over 15 years of experience as a legal professional, he currently works out of his own law firm. Mr. Suter is both legal adviser and a board member of several companies. Previous employment includes the District Court of Zurich, Alpina Insurance, Zurich and the Swiss Union Bank.