Ian Pratt is Co–founder and CEO at Bromium Inc. Ian was founder and Chief Scientist at XenSource, which built enterprise-class virtualization products based on the Xen hypervisor. XenSource was acquired by Citrix in 2007, where he then served as Vice President for Advanced Products and CTO. Ian founded the Xen project with a number of students while he was a tenured faculty member at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, where he led the Systems Research Group for nine years. He is Chairman Emeritus of The Xen Project, the organization that now leads development of Xen. Ian was also a co-founder of Nemesys Research Ltd, acquired by FORE Systems in 1996. Ian holds a PhD in Computer Science, is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, and a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering which awarded him the Academy's Silver Medal in 2009.