Mike Bursell

Mike Bursell is the Executive Director of the Confidential Computing Consortium, having been involved since its foundation in 2019. He is one of the co-founders of the open source Enarx project and was CEO and co-founder of the start-up Profian and currently holds advisory board roles with various start-ups. Previous companies include Red Hat, Intel and Citrix, with roles in security, virtualisation and networking. He regularly speaks at industry events in Europe, North America and APAC and has a YouTube channel dedicated to cybersecurity education. Professional interests include: Confidential Computing, digital sovereignty, Agentic AI security, Linux, trust, open source software and community, security, decentralised and distributed systems, Web3, blockchain. Mike has an MA from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from the Open University, and is author of "Trust in Computer Systems and the Cloud", published by Wiley. He is the inventor of over 100 patents.