### Denis Mandich

## Denis Mandich

##### Chief Technology Officer

Founding member of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C)

Industry Advisor to the NSF IUCRC Center for Quantum Technology

Founding member of the Mid-Atlantic Quantum Alliance (MQA)

ANSI Accredited Standards Committee X9

Forbes Technology Council

Startup Foundry

Rutgers University

#### Bio

Qrypt CTO and co-founder, Denis Mandich, focuses on quantum security, R&D, post-quantum encryption (PQC) algorithms, and standards bodies. He holds several patents in cryptography, cyber technologies, and information processing. Denis is a founding member of the Quantum Economic Development Consortium (QED-C), a founding member of the NSF-funded Mid-Atlantic Quantum Alliance (MQA), an industry advisor to the first NSF-IUCRC-funded Center for Quantum Technologies (CQT), advisor to the Quantum Startup Foundry and former board member of quantum chip manufacturer Quside.

Before joining Qrypt, Denis served 20 years in the US Intelligence Community working on national security projects, cyberinfrastructure, and advanced technology development. He has degrees in Physics from Rutgers University and speaks native-level Croatian and Russian. He publishes extensively on the quantum threat to national economic security.

#### “I believe privacy is a nonnegotiable human right. I never met anyone in the US intelligence community who disagreed. Qrypt tools make it possible to speak freely among ourselves again, without fear of monitoring or even being canceled.”

##### – Denis Mandich

Chief Technology Officer

### Resources posted by Denis Mandich

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**It’s Black Boxes All the Way Down**\
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6.4.2026](/content/resources/its-black-boxes-all-the-way-down/index.html)

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**The Mythos Moment: AI Exposed What Was Already There**\
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4.13.2026](/content/resources/the-mythos-moment-ai-exposed-what-was-already-there/index.html)

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**AES: A Single Point of Failure in a World That Assumes It’s Unbreakable**\
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11.8.2025](/content/resources/aes-a-single-point-of-failure-in-a-world-that-assumes-its-unbreakable/index.html)

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**Integration of Quantum Randomness with Modern Encryption Systems: Providing a Secure Foundation to Our Digital Future**\
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4.16.25](/content/resources/integration-of-quantum-randomness-with-modern-encryption-systems-providing-a-secure-foundation-to-our-digital-future/index.html)