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Andy Yen: CEO, Proton Technologies

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Andy Yen is the Founder and CEO of Proton Technologies AG. The Swiss-based Proton Technologies is building a suite of security software solutions including ProtonMail, the world's largest secure email, and ProtonVPN, a security-focused VPN service that enables Internet access without surveillance. Andy was a researcher at CERN from 2009 to 2015, where ProtonMail's founding team met. He has a PhD in Physics from Harvard and a degree in Economics from Caltech. He is a longtime advocate of privacy rights and has spoken at TED, SXSW, and the Asian Investigative Journalism Conference about online privacy issues.

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Fox, B. (2020). Andy Yen: CEO, Proton Technologies. In: The Future of the Workplace. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5098-3_28

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