Elmar Eperiesi-Beck
Founder and CEO
Elmar began his security career back before the internet was
the internet and FidoNet was how people connected globally
over a closed system. He had a hand in the transformation of
the credit card industry when his team notified banks that the
actual PIN number for the card could be extracted from the
code on the magnetic strip due to lack of encryption.
In the 90s when SAP host-based computing was introduced,
Elmar saw the business opportunities it opened up and
approached IBM with the idea of combining html and business.
Backed by IBM, he produced a proof of concept and eBusiness
took off. His ideas led him to manage global IT projects at IBM
and he had a successful career there, while still persisting to
maintain a technical role.
After a while, Elmar was part of team that founded a new company as subsidiary of a German Bank for
transferring money. His perseverance for better security led him to create eperi and a unique software
using open source code based on Java. During that time he also worked with the Federal Office of
Information Security in Germany and with the Eclipse open source community.
After ten years, Elmar realised that they had built up a portfolio of solutions to enhance the security in
emails, databases, mobile devices, applications and files and he had everything he needed to make the
switch from a consultancy to a vendor of a full blown data encryption product now known as the eperi
Gateway.
Elmar continues to work with the open source community and meets regularly with his friends to eat,
drink and code. He whole heartedly believes in the power of open source and his business was recently
awarded Microsoft Partner of the Year for the Open Source on Azure category.
eperi GmbH
Uhlandstrasse 9 / 64297 Darmstadt / Germany
T +49 6151 9513 0 11
F +49 6151 95130 66
W [email protected] / eperi.de
Managing Director: Elmar Eperiesi-Beck
Ravi Pather
Senior Vice President, Global Sales
Ravi Pather serves as eperi GmbH’s Senior Vice President of
Global Sales. He is responsible for establishing and driving
eperi’s global sales and marketing activities including direct
and channel partner sales. With an executive career spanning
25 years in security software, during which he served as Vice
President EMEA for Blue Coat Systems, Perspecsys, Voltage
Security and others, Ravi Pather has in depth experience of
helping enterprises establish and implement cloud data
protection solutions when addressing various legal and
regulatory data compliance needs while leveraging the power
of cloud SaaS applications.
eperi GmbH
Uhlandstrasse 9 / 64297 Darmstadt / Germany
T +49 6151 9513 0 11
F +49 6151 95130 66
W [email protected] / eperi.de
Managing Director: Elmar Eperiesi-Beck