Meet the Proton team

Andy has long worked to advance privacy and freedom online and has spoken at TED and the Internet Governance Forum. Previously, he was a scientist at CERN and has a PhD in physics from Harvard University and degrees in physics and economics from Caltech. Andy has lived in Switzerland, the US, and Taiwan.

Sir Tim is the CTO and co-founder of Inrupt and invented the web while at CERN in 1989. He co-founded and is President of the ODI. Sir Tim co-founded the Web Foundation and is the Founder and Director of the W3C. He is a Professor of Computer Science at MIT and Oxford University. In 2017, he was awarded the Turing Prize (considered the "Nobel Prize of Computing”).

Rosemary is one of the Founding Directors of the World Wide Web Foundation, a non profit founded with Tim Berners-Lee to bridge the digital divide by maximizing the impact of the Web on Health, Education and Democracy.

Rosemary has a background over the past 25 years in Finance, Principal Investment, Start-up creation and Sale in Europe, UK, Canada and USA.

Previously, she was the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council Chair of the Future of Internet Security and is currently Vice Chair. She serves on the Advisory Board of a number of Universities, and as an advisor for Arts organizations.

Antonio has a 25-year background in finance, principal investment, and start-up creation. As a board member, he advises the executive leadership to deliver the mission and strategy of the company. Antonio also serves as director at FONGIT, a foundation supporting innovation on behalf of the State of Geneva and the Swiss federal government.

Alisée uses her knowledge of tech trends in emerging markets to guide the Proton executive team’s strategy. She is the co-founder and co-CEO of Seedstars, a Swiss group whose mission is to impact people’s lives in emerging markets through technology and entrepreneurship. Alisée has also been named a Forbes 30 under 30 for Social Entrepreneurs and an Innovation Fellow by Wired UK, and she is a member of the Swiss Innovation Council.

Bart was one of the first employees of Proton and has been CTO since 2015. He is responsible for technical vision and architecture. Previously, he worked at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN and in the private sector. He holds a BA in physics and chemistry from Dartmouth College, a PhD in physics from Stanford University and was a postdoc fellow at Harvard University.

Anant is the Product Lead for Proton Drive. Before joining Proton, he had over 5 years of experience building tech product with majority of that time spent working in Silicon Valley. He holds master's degree in business from the Warwick Business School in the UK.

Julijana leads a team of highly motivated professionals committed to data-driven processes and people development to scale sustainable, efficient, and empathetic support experiences. Julijana is a chemical engineer with an MSc in Management and Business Administration and a PMGB Six Sigma Green Belt. She is a longtime F1 fan, but her passion is customer service. She has led customer support and sales teams in T-Mobile, Telekom, and EVN Macedonia