Taher Elgamal is a Special Advisor to Glenbrook in the areas of computer, network and information security.

Previously, Taher was the Chief Technology Officer of Tumbleweed Communications until its acquisition by Axway, Inc. Earlier, he was the Founder, Chairman and CEO of Securify, a leading information security consulting firm.

As the Chief Scientist of Netscape, Taher was recognized as the "inventor of SSL". He wrote the base algorithm used in SSL and helped establish SSL as the Internet Security standard within standards committees and throughout the online industry. For years, SSL has provided the foundation layer of online channel security used by ecommerce merchants, online banks and brokerages, etc. In April 2009, Taher was awarded the RSA Conference Lifetime Achievement Award for his contributions to the information technology (IT) security field and, in particular, for his work on SSL.

Taher invented several industry and government standards in data security and digital signatures area including the DSS government standard for digital signatures. Several thousand publications have been written in the space referred to as "the Elgamal Cryptography". He also developed security software that was used in the DSS government standard for digital signatures and in commercial products by a number of companie.

Taher has served as a board member of RSA Security, hi/fn, Phoenix Technology and Tumbleweed. He is an advisor to Onset Ventures and several companies in the Internet and security space.

Taher has a Ph.D. and M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.