Francis Dinha | Source | CEO at OpenVPN

Francis Dinha

CEO at OpenVPN
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Franics Dinha is the founder and CEO of OpenVPN, a provider of next-generation secure and scalable communication services. With over 60 million downloads since 2002, OpenVPN’s award-winning open source VPN protocol has established itself as the de facto standard in the networking space. The company’s promotional product Access Server is designed for businesses, providing secure access to a private enterprise network, in the cloud or on-premise.

Before he founded OpenVPN, Francis was the CEO at Iraq Development and Investment Projects where he played a principal role in architecting a joint venture to win the mobile communication license in Iraq. He has served as an architect and broadband system engineer at Ericsson, where he worked both in the U.S. and Sweden. Francis was also the founder and CTO of PacketStream, a company whose patented technology enabled dynamic Quality of Service provisioning of IP networks. Francis has a Master of Science in computer engineering from the University of Linkoping in Sweden.

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  • OpenVPN is incorporated in the US, and we pride ourselves on our transparency and that our open source protocol is the de facto standard used by almost all other providers. This new report that exposes nearly a third of top VPN providers being owned by parent companies in China is very alarming as this makes the service from these companies very insecure. If you use one of these VPNs, China can use your device to store dangerous content and initiate malicious encounters. You might be subjecting yourself to a criminal investigation.

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