Biography
Chris Simkins is an attorney and an entrepreneur with deep experience in technology and information security. He is currently the Co-Founder and CEO of Corsha, a fully-funded cybersecurity start-up located in the Washington, DC area. Corsha's streaming authentication solution is an innovative multi-factor authentication technology that prevents credential-based attacks and provides security for online accounts.
Chris managed national security programs for the U.S. Dept. of Justice, first in the Counterespionage Section and then as a senior advisor to the Assistant Attorneys General for the National Security and Criminal Divisions. He is a recognized expert on the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) and was the government’s primary CFIUS negotiator for three years. He was a senior lawyer with the Washington DC firms of Covington & Burling and WilmerHale. For over a decade, he has provided legal and security-related consulting advice to companies on CFIUS, technology, national security, and regulatory matters. In 2011, he co-founded Chain Security, a technology supply chain and product development security firm, and served as CEO until exiting to start Corsha.