Francis Dinha is the co-founder and CEO of OpenVPN Inc., a leading global private networking and cybersecurity company that allows organizations to truly safeguard their assets in a dynamic, cost effective, and scalable way. After growing up under the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, Francis escaped and achieved his Master of Science in computer engineering from the University of Linkoping. He spent the next several decades working in technology, contributing his skill and leadership to major projects across the world. Francis believes in the power of technology to make a more free, more secure world, and that vision has driven his work co-founding and building OpenVPN, Inc. With over 60 million downloads since 2002, OpenVPN’s award-winning open source VPN protocol has established itself as the de facto standard in the networking space, with both cloud-based and self-hosted private networking tools available. Francis regularly writes and speaks to the media on tech and business leadership, and has appeared in Entrepreneur, Forbes, Dark Reading, Security Blvd, TechRadar, and more.