Nicko van Someren

Nicko van Someren
Citizenship	British
Alma mater	University of Cambridge
Scientific career
Fields	Computer Science
Doctoral advisor	Neil Wiseman

Dr. Nicholas Nicko van Someren PhD, FREng, FBCS (born 1967) is a British computer scientist, cryptographer and entrepreneur. He is known for having founded ANT Software Limited, and nCipher as well as more recently having been the Chief Security Architect at Juniper Networks and is currently the Chief Technology Officer of the Linux Foundation where he runs the Core Infrastructure Initiative.

Van Someren attended King College Choir School in Cambridge, UK before receiving a scholarship to Oakham School in Rutland. He went on to study as an undergraduate in Computer Science at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he subsequently earned a PhD.

Van Someren credits his interest in business to his father, who ran a business from their home when he was young. While still at school van Someren took summer jobs with Acorn Computers and acquired an interest in cryptography by reading about public key encryption in Scientific American.

In 1992 Nicko van Someren and his brother Alex van Someren, along with two friends, founded ANT Ltd. to build networking hardware. While with ANT, van Someren wrote the first version of the Fresco web browser which helped the company move from being primarily a hardware company to a software company. ANT Plc. went public on the London Alternative Investments Market in March 2005. In February 2013 ANT was acquired by Espial Group.

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