Aaron Chow is currently Principal Cryptographer and Director of Cloud Security Patterns and Policy-as-Code at Scotiabank, leading a diverse team to accelerate and secure the bank’s cloud transformation. As the Principal Cryptographer, he is responsible for the Cryptography domain at Scotiabank, providing cryptographic expertise and heads up the Crypto Council at the Bank. He is co-chair of the Canadian Financial Institution Quantum Working Group, and is also an active participant in industry-government-academic quantum working groups. He is also a part-time faculty at Georgian College where he teaches cryptography. Academically, he was trained in mathematics, economics, and statistics, and holds a PhD in number theory from the University of Toronto where he contributed to the “hardness of factoring” problem.