Andrew Stern is the founder and CEO of Coremeleon, a digital asset and security company. He completed his Ph.D. at the Florida Institute for Cybersecurity Research at the University of Florida. There, his research on the topic of hardware security spanned the semiconductor supply chain, including frameworks for counterfeit detection and avoidance, sub-micron Trojan detection techniques, and semiconductor intellectual property protection in a near zero-trust environment. He is using this expertise to build usable and secure custody solution for cryptocurrency is and web3.