The people behind Partisia
Cryptographers, engineers, and business leaders united by a shared mission: trusted identity without data exposure.
Management
Kurt Nielsen
Chief Executive Officer, Partner
Co-founder of Partisia with a PhD in Business Economics. Kurt has led Partisia since its founding in 2008, steering the company from its first commercial MPC deployment to a global privacy technology leader.
Peter F. Frandsen
Chief Operating Officer, Partner
Over 20 years of software industry experience. Peter oversees Partisia's operations, partnerships, and commercial execution across all four office locations.
Mark Medum Bundgaard
Chief Product Officer
Leads product strategy and development across the Partisia Platform, VisitorPass, and identity verification products. Drives the product roadmap from research to production deployment.
Niklas Nielsen
Chief Commercial Officer
Responsible for Partisia's commercial growth strategy, key account management, and market expansion across Europe and Asia.
Jesper Balman Gravgaard
Chief Technology Officer
Leads Partisia's engineering organization and technology architecture. Responsible for platform scalability, security, and infrastructure across all products.
Emil Bremer Orloff
Principal Engineer, Partner
Core protocol developer and partner. Emil builds the foundational MPC and blockchain infrastructure that powers Partisia's product suite.
Kim Nørskov
Chief Success Officer
Leads customer success, onboarding, and support. Ensures customers achieve measurable outcomes from their Partisia deployments.
Dorthe Haagen Nielsen
Chief Administrative Officer
Oversees Partisia's administrative operations, finance, HR, and organizational development across all locations.
Advisors & Researchers
Ivan Damgård, Professor
Chief Cryptographer, Partner
IACR Fellow and 2015 RSA Award recipient. Pioneer of Multi-Party Computation with 35+ years of cryptographic research at Aarhus University. Co-inventor of the Merkle-Damgård hash function.
Jesper Buus Nielsen, Professor
Chief Cryptographic System Designer, Partner
Professor of Cryptography at Aarhus University. Designs the cryptographic system architecture underlying Partisia's MPC protocols.
Claudio Orlandi, Professor
Chief Cryptographic Protocol Designer, Partner
Professor at Aarhus University specializing in practical MPC protocol design. Leads the development of efficient cryptographic protocols for Partisia's products.
Jim Ditmore
Senior Technology Advisor (Financial Services and Technology Leader)
Senior technology advisor bringing decades of enterprise technology leadership experience to Partisia's strategic direction.
Christian Igel
Senior Technology Advisor (Artificial Intelligence)
Professor specializing in artificial intelligence and machine learning. Advises Partisia on privacy-preserving AI applications and research direction.
Nat Sakimura
Senior Advisor - Digital Identity
Internationally recognized digital identity expert. Advises Partisia on decentralized identity standards, eIDAS compliance, and global identity frameworks.
Jakob Illeborg Pagter, PhD
Vice President Multi-Party Computation, Partner
PhD in cryptography. Leads MPC research and development at Partisia, bridging academic research with production-grade implementations.
Tomas Toft, PhD
Senior Software Developer, Partner
PhD in MPC implementation. Senior developer building high-performance cryptographic software at Partisia since its earliest days.
Peter Bogetoft, Professor, Dr. Merc.
Chief Economist, Partner
Professor of Economics. Designed the economic models behind Partisia's first commercial MPC deployment — the Danish sugar beet auction in 2008.
Carsten Baum, Associate Professor
Scientific Consultant on MPC/Blockchain
Associate Professor specializing in the intersection of MPC and blockchain technology. Consults on cryptographic protocol security and formal verification.
Thomas Pelle Jakobsen, PhD
Senior Software Developer, Partner
PhD in applied cryptography. Long-standing Partisia partner developing core MPC software and contributing to protocol optimization.