Tarique Mustafa

Tarique is the Founder, CEO, CTO and inventor behind Chorology’s patented Deep AI-based compliance technology platform. He is recognized in the industry as a leading visionary and expert in Data Compliance and Security Posture Enforcement. Tarique’s groundbreaking innovations in intelligently automated data discovery, classification, risk assessment and security posture management have gained him international recognition as he is frequently invited as Keynote / Guest Speaker at prestigious Security Conferences and Forums.

Most recently Tarique co-founded GhangorCloud, Inc. – having developed the core AI algorithms for this 4th generation data leakage protection and exfiltration platform that is displacing incumbent operators and gaining market momentum in the DLP space. Prior to GhangordCloud and Chorology, Tarique was the founding CEO/CTO of nexTier Networks – a Silicon Valley provider of “Best of Breed,” award winning Data Leak Prevention solutions.

Tarique has more than 20 years of industry experience in technical leadership positions at Symantec, DHL-Airways IT, MCI WorldCom, EDS, Andes Networks and Nevis Networks where he built industry leading security products. Previously, Tarique founded Network Utilities (a Silicon Valley startup that built wireless infrastructure & security platform) that was acquired by Andes Networks. Tarique also served as the CTO of Andes Networks, architects of an SSL Security Appliance and acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2003. Tarique also served as Principal Architect at Nevis Networks where he was responsible for building next generation Security Monitoring and Security Event Correlation technology for IDS/IPS (Intrusion Detection/Prevention) and SSL/IPSec.

Tarique has several patents (approved and pending) with USPTO and has published many research publications in the areas of Information & Data Security, Computer & Network Security, Software Architecture, Database Technologies and Artificial Intelligence. Tarique was awarded the prestigious Rotary International Scholarship for his Doctoral Studies in Computer Science at University of Southern California (USC). Tarique also holds Master’s Degrees in Engineering and Computer Science from University of Southern California (USC), and a Bachelor’s Degree in Mechanical Engineering from NED University of Engineering & Technology