The Safford team has over 40 years of experience in cryptography, information security, ecommerce, and application development.

Kevin Ha, Co-Founder

Kevin has deep information security experience across a wide range of domains including digital certificate management, hardware security modules, identity access management (IAM), cryptographic systems, and public key cryptography (PKI). He has completed projects for Schlumberger, IBM, the U.S. Department of Defense, and numerous healthcare and enterprise clients. Kevin holds a B.S. in Management Information Systems from the University of Houston.

Mark Palmer, Co-Founder

Mark has over 25 years of experience with information technology and security projects covering application development, cloud computing, analytics, and operational process design. He has served as Director of Application Development and Vice President of eCommerce at a Fortune 100 company, and as a consultant at Arthur D. Little Inc. Mark holds a B.A. in Economics from Rice University.