Dr. Ellison Anne Williams is the Founder and CEO of Enveil, the pioneering Privacy Enhancing Technology company protecting Data in Use. Building on experience leading avant-garde efforts in the areas of large-scale analytics, information security, and machine learning, Ellison Anne founded the startup in 2016 to transform how and where data can be securely and privately leveraged to unlock value. Enveil’s award-winning ZeroReveal® solutions are deployed and operational at scale helping global customers securely utilize data across silos and organizational, jurisdictional, and security boundaries in entirely new ways to reduce risk and accelerate the timeline for extracting actionable insights.
A mathematician by training, Ellison Anne leverages her deep technical background and passion for evangelizing the impact of disruptive technologies to advocate for the impact and advancement of Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs). She has raised $40M in venture funding to cultivate and deliver Enveil’s category-defining capabilities for use cases ranging from cross-jurisdictional data usage to Secure AI, validating the substantial impact of PETs for business and mission users alike. Under Ellison Anne’s leadership, the company has been recognized by global influencers such as the World Economic Forum, Gartner, EY, and Frost & Sullivan, and won an expanding list of industry accolades: SINET 16 Innovator, RegTech 100, RSA Innovation Sandbox Finalist, SC Award Winner, Gartner Cool Vendor, and WEF Technology Pioneer.
Ellison Anne is a thought leader, speaker, and mentor in the broader privacy and technology communities, with contributed works appearing in publications including Forbes, CPO Magazine, SecurityWeek, Information Age, and HelpNetSecurity. She has been honored as a Business Insider Cybersecurity Leader, SC Media Reboot Leadership Innovator, EY Entrepreneur of the Year Finalist, and a Cyberscoop Leet List Honoree.
Beginning her career in the U.S. Intelligence Community with roles at the National Security Agency and the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Ellison Anne is accomplished in the fields of distributed computing and algorithms, cryptographic applications, graph theory, combinatorics, computer network exploitation, network modeling, machine learning, and data mining. She holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics (Algebraic Combinatorics), a M.S. in Mathematics (Set Theoretic Topology), and a M.S. in Computer Science (Machine Learning).