Phil Syme

Phil Syme has over 22 years of information technology experience. His areas of expertise include system architecture, data processing at scale, and cloud technologies. Phil is the CTO and a cofounder of Area 1 Security, a cloud-based next generation anti-phishing company. Phil was previously a Chief Engineer at Next Century Corporation where he served as a contractor for intelligence agencies. Prior to that he was also co-founder and Principal Engineer at eSymmetrix, and co-authored two introductory programming books. He holds a B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science.