Wil Oxford

Wil Oxford is the founder and CEO of Anametric, a quantum photonic cybersecurity-focused startup based in Austin, TX. After finishing his Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science from UNC in 1987, Wil moved from academia to Apple’s Advanced Technologies Group in Cupertino CA, where he worked on mixed-signal IC designs for personal computer use. In 1995, Wil joined the Apple/IBM/Motorola Design Center in Austin, TX, where he was part of the team that produced several generations of PowerPC CPU designs. For over a dozen years, every Macintosh computer that Apple shipped featured at least one of Wil’s chip designs.

After 14 years at Apple, Wil joined LifeSize Communications, where he led a small team to design and ship several ground-breaking products within 18 months from the day he joined the company. LifeSize was acquired by multimedia giant Logitech in 2009. After LifeSize, Wil founded Rubicon Labs, Inc. and spent the next decade developing Rubicon’s ground-breaking IoT security platform. Wil spun Anametric out of Rubicon in 2017, where he leads a small team of industry veterans from Apple, Texas Instruments and NXP to design and build quantum photonics-based chips for the cybersecurity market.