Summary
Mike Bursell is a veteran technologist and strategic advisor with three decades of experience marrying technical depth with executive leadership across cybersecurity, open source, confidential computing and cloud. As Executive Director of the Confidential Computing Consortium and a serial board advisor and founder, he has helped commercialise projects like Enarx, secured VC funding for ventures, and translated complex security concepts into business-ready strategies. His career spans influential roles at Red Hat, Intel, Citrix and start-ups, blending hands-on architecture and product management with patent and IP guidance. Comfortable operating across Europe, the US and Asia, he specialises in go-to-market, risk mitigation and building culturally inclusive teams. An author of Trust in Computing Systems and the Cloud, he uniquely combines a humanities background from Cambridge with rigorous security credentials (CISSP) and a knack for brokering investment and ecosystem partnerships.
8 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, Innovation, Creativity, Emergent strategy, etc., MBA, Innovation, Creativity, Emergent strategy, etc. at The Open University
MA (2:1), English & Theology, MA (2:1), English & Theology at University of Cambridge
CISSP, Information Security, CISSP, Information Security at (ISC)2
N/a, N/a, N/a, N/a at Bryanston
French, Spanish, Latin