Michael Egorov is the CEO of Curve Finance and co-founder and CTO of NuCypher. Prior to launching NuCypher, Michael worked on infrastructure tools at LinkedIn, where he encountered some of the most difficult scaling issues in the world. He has experience as a scientist and physicist, specializing in a field closely related to quantum computing and cryptography. Michael was a bronze medalist in the 2003 International Physics Olympiad and graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology.