QuSecure appoints Tom Lounibos as strategic advisor

QuSecure has appointed Tom Lounibos as a strategic advisor, adding a veteran Silicon Valley entrepreneur and investor to its advisory team.

Lounibos first invested in QuSecure while leading Accenture Ventures. He later became Global Lead and Managing Partner of Accenture's Venture Capital Group, where he and his team invested in more than 80 emerging AI and quantum companies.

Earlier in his career, he spent 48 years in Silicon Valley as an entrepreneur and founder, helping build six software companies. His most recent company, SOASTA, was acquired by Akamai in 2017. He has also held board roles at several Silicon Valley businesses.

QuSecure focuses on post-quantum cryptography and cryptographic agility, an area drawing increased attention as organisations prepare for the risks quantum computing could pose to current encryption standards. Its customers include the United States Army and Air Force, financial institutions, and providers in telecommunications, energy and cloud services.

Growing demand

The appointment comes as businesses and public sector bodies face tighter timelines for adopting quantum-safe cryptography. According to QuSecure, industry analysts expect the post-quantum cryptography market to exceed USD $15 billion by 2030.

Separately, the company pointed to a post-quantum financial infrastructure framework submitted to the US Securities and Exchange Commission's Crypto Assets Task Force, which cited QuSecure's banking deployment with Banco Sabadell and Accenture as a real-world example of migration work.

"In five decades of building and investing in enterprise software, I've seen a handful of companies that recognized a technology shift early enough to define the category around it," said Tom Lounibos, Strategic Advisor, QuSecure. "QuSecure is one of them. They saw the PQC migration not as a product opportunity but as the catalyst for an entirely new layer of enterprise infrastructure, built it before the mandates arrived, and are now positioned at the center of the largest cryptographic migration in history."

Leadership view

"Tom's track record, six companies, two IPOs, and serving on one of the most active corporate venture groups in the world make him exactly the advisor you want at this stage of growth," said Rebecca Krauthamer, Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder, QuSecure. "He's built category-defining companies through the kinds of inflection points we're entering now, and he's done it at a scale very few people in enterprise software have matched. We're building the infrastructure layer that every organization will rely on to manage cryptography from this point forward, and we're doing it at a moment when the market has no choice but to move."

QuSecure's software is designed to help organisations identify cryptographic assets across networks, set governance policies, and update cryptography without rewriting applications. Its platform can operate across cloud, on-premises, air-gapped and sovereign environments.

The company has positioned itself around the operational challenge of changing encryption standards across large organisations, rather than focusing only on the underlying algorithms. That task has become more prominent as regulators, standards bodies and large enterprises consider how to replace existing cryptographic methods with post-quantum alternatives over time.

Lounibos joins QuSecure as post-quantum security moves in some sectors from research and pilot projects toward broader deployment, bringing experience in software company building, exits, venture investing and board oversight.