Tim D Williams
CTO at ProteQC PQC Advisory Limited
About
Tim D Williams is a security architect and researcher with over thirty years' experience in applied cryptography, spanning public key infrastructure, digital certificates and signatures, key lifecycle management and hardware security modules across government, banking, energy and healthcare. He holds an MSc in Information Security Testing from Royal Holloway, University of London, an MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology, is a Fellow of the BCS and Chartered IT Professional, a member of the Chartered Institute of Information Security, volunteer for ISC2 and Ukraine's National Academy of Internal Affairs and holder of certifications including CISSP-ISSAP-ISSEP-ISSMP. His current research, published via IEEE, Springer and SSRN (Elsevier) and catalogued under ORCID 0000-0002-1788-5736, examines the post-quantum transition from cost, lifecycle, architectural and trust-anchor perspectives. He serves on the programme committee of the Cyber Science series of conferences (https://c-mric.org (opens in a new tab)), as CTO of PQC advisory start-up ProteQC (https://ProteQC.com (opens in a new tab)) and is pursuing a PhD by published works.
Experience
CTO
ProteQC PQC Advisory Limited
Oct 2026 – Present
Tim D Williams is a security architect and researcher with over thirty years' experience in applied cryptography, spanning public key infrastructure, digital certificates and signatures, key lifecycle management and hardware security modules across government, banking, energy and healthcare. He holds an MSc in Information Security Testing from Royal Holloway, University of London, an MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology, is a Fellow of the BCS and Chartered IT Professional, a member of the Chartered Institute of Information Security, volunteer for ISC2 and Ukraine's National Academy of Internal Affairs and holder of certifications including CISSP-ISSAP-ISSEP-ISSMP. His current research, published via IEEE, Springer and SSRN (Elsevier) and catalogued under ORCID 0000-0002-1788-5736, examines the post-quantum transition from cost, lifecycle, architectural and trust-anchor perspectives. He serves on the programme committee of the Cyber Science series of conferences (https://c-mric.org (opens in a new tab)), as CTO of PQC advisory start-up ProteQC (https://ProteQC.com (opens in a new tab)) and is pursuing a PhD by published works.
Independent
Oct 2026 – Present
Tim D Williams is a security architect and researcher with over thirty years' experience in applied cryptography, spanning public key infrastructure, digital certificates and signatures, key lifecycle management and hardware security modules across government, banking, energy and healthcare. He holds an MSc in Information Security Testing from Royal Holloway, University of London, an MBA from Quantic School of Business and Technology, is a Fellow of the BCS and Chartered IT Professional, a member of the Chartered Institute of Information Security, volunteer for ISC2 and Ukraine's National Academy of Internal Affairs and holder of certifications including CISSP-ISSAP-ISSEP-ISSMP. His current research, published via IEEE, Springer and SSRN (Elsevier) and catalogued under ORCID 0000-0002-1788-5736, examines the post-quantum transition from cost, lifecycle, architectural and trust-anchor perspectives. He serves on the programme committee of the Cyber Science series of conferences (https://c-mric.org (opens in a new tab)), as CTO of PQC advisory start-up ProteQC (https://ProteQC.com (opens in a new tab)) and is pursuing a PhD by published works.
