Peter Kolarov is the Founder and CEO of Crayonic, a cybersecurity startup launched in 2015 focused on solving problems of proving the true identity of people and things in the digital domain.
Peter is an experienced entrepreneur and technologist who spent the past 15 years architecting, developing and selling award-winning electronic signature and IAM solutions to global customers in finance. He also speaks at different events and hackathons on topics of electronic signatures, self-sovereign identities, secure decentralized authentication and real-world blockchain applications.
Prior to the launch of Crayonic, Peter worked for Anasoft APR (2006-2015) as a senior Solution Architect focusing on the cybersecurity field of Identity and Access Management and digital signatures.
In 2003, he launched a mobile software development company and developed multiple projects such as an interactive TV platform and TV station that sold later to a Norwegian TV network.
He co-founded his first startup in 2000 (Strings Inc., Seattle, WA) around unique variable data printing and templating technology that he developed for PDF print-ready documents. He sold the company to EFI/Printcafe in 2001.
Prior to this, in 1994, he joined a startup video game development company in Redmond, WA, where he led the software development team creating multiple high-profile titles across different platforms such as the Harry Potter series.
Peter was born in former Czechoslovakia. He studied Electrical Engineering in Bratislava, Slovakia and at the University of Nevada, Reno and graduated at the top of his class.