Keith Krach

Chairman and Co-Founder, Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue

Country Commissioner, United States of America

The key to securing freedom for the next generation is securing technology. Tomorrow’s tech must be trusted tech developed and protected by a Global Trust Network of like-minded countries, companies, and individuals who respect the rule of law, human rights, labor practices, national sovereignty, and the environment.

Keith Krach is a Silicon Valley innovator and dedicated public servant. He founded and led several category-creating companies — including Ariba, the world’s largest B2B e-commerce network, which transacts $3.7 trillion annually; and DocuSign, inventors of digital transaction management, serving 1 million companies, and over a billion users. He served as Chairman of Purdue University, and as international President of Sigma Chi Fraternity.

As Under Secretary of State, Krach spearheaded the largest onshoring in US history; repatriated 100,000 citizens during COVID; was the highest-ranking US official to visit Taiwan in 41 years; and built the Clean Network Alliance of Democracies to defeat the CCP’s masterplan to control 5G.

Today, he serves as chairman of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue, a bipartisan institute devoted to applying the lessons learned from the Clean Network to a broad set of other critical technologies that must be safeguarded to protect our freedom.