Convening to Act

Mr. Fontaine is the Founder and CEO of Hushmesh, a dual-use Public Benefit cybersecurity startup in the Washington DC area. The company believes that people, companies, and democracies need safe and authentic data, just like they need clean water and stable electricity. To achieve this, Hushmesh leverages Confidential Computing to automate decentralized, pairwise, and end-to-end cryptographic security at the person and non-person entity level and global scale. Secured by the Universal Name System (UNS) and the Universal Certificate Authority (UCA), the Mesh provides global assurance of data provenance, integrity, authenticity, confidentiality, and privacy for all entities. Manu lives with his wife in Northern Virginia and is the proud father of two daughters pursuing careers at the intersection of electrical engineering and physics.