Imam Sheikh is an accomplished cybersecurity industry executive with 20+ years' experience in developing and launching security products and services. Imam has deep domain expertise in the fields of cryptography, encryption key management, authentication and networking. While at Equinix he launched, SmartKey, industry's first Intel SGX based hardware security module (HSM) as-a-service. Before Equinix, he has held several product management and engineering leadership roles and has launched and managed award-winning product lines at Vormetric and SafeNet (now Thales eSecurity). Imam is a Stanford Executive Program diploma holder from Stanford University. He also has a MBA from Santa Clara University and a Bachelors in Computer Engineering (Honors) from University of Bombay.