Chief Research Officer
Barracuda Networks
Dr. Paul Judge is a serial entrepreneur and noted scholar. He has founded several companies that grew and resulted in successful acquisitions. He currently serves as Chief Research Officer and Vice President at Barracuda Networks. Dr. Judge is best known for his work in Internet security including web, social networking and email. He was founder and CTO at Purewire and previously served as CTO of CipherTrust and Secure Computing. He is also Chairman of Pindrop Security. He heads Judge Ventures, an investment firm. Judge Ventures focuses on opportunities in making the Internet safe, useful, and entertaining. Dr. Judge has won many awards including InfoWorld Top 25 CTOs, Atlanta Power 30 under 30 and MIT Technology Review Magazine's 100 Top Innovators under 35. He is an inventor of about 30 patented and patent-pending computer security technologies. He earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science from Georgia Tech.