Dr Gautham Sekar

Founder & President

Madras Fintech Services Pvt. Ltd (CIN: U73100TN2019PTC133193; UDYAM-TN-02-0074212) was founded in December 2019 by Dr Gautham Sekar, an alumnus of BITS Pilani and KU Leuven. His interests span information security, financial technology, data science, and philosophy. Prior to founding MFS, Dr Sekar worked in various capacities at leading universities and institutions such as the National University of Singapore, the Indian Statistical Institute and the Madras School of Economics. He has (co-)authored 20 publications, with several appearing in top venues such as Fast Software Encryption, CT-RSA, Information Security Conference, the Computer Journal, the Journal of Mathematical Cryptology and the Journal of Computer Security. Dr Sekar is a recipient of the Dr. Ranjit Singh Chauhan Undergraduate Research Award. A secure implementation of a 3GPP encryption standard that he co-developed has been included in the LTE/4G wireless standards.