Thomas Dübendorfer holds a Ph.D. and master in computer science with honors with distinction from ETH Zurich. He worked as software engineer in Silicon Valley and seven years as Tech Lead on security and privacy projects at Google in Zürich, receiving three Google OC awards.

As president he shaped the Information Security Society Switzerland ISSS for five years, during which the number of members more than doubled to over a thousand. He is a lecturer at ETH Zürich and has co-founded several Internet technology based product centric startups in Switzerland, among them Spontacts AG (activity-based social network, exit to Scout24 Group), Contovista AG (personal finance management, exit to Aduno Group), Get More Brain AG (collaborative e-learning and knowledge management platform), and Frontify AG (brand management solution).