Biography
Shahrokh Shahidzadeh
Co-Founder | CEO
Shahrokh is the CEO and Co-Founder of Silicon45, driving a software-defined execution fabric that bypasses vendor lock-in and legacy CPU-centric scheduling by treating hardware as an interchangeable substrate.
Prior to Silicon45, Shahrokh bootstrapped Acceptto, a cybersecurity and data analytics company, delivering the industry’s first AI-driven Continuous Passwordless Authentication platform to revolutionize the IAM/CIAM landscape, and leading the company through its acquisition.
Before Acceptto, he spent 25 years at Intel Corporation as a Senior Principal Technologist, advancing from a P6 (Pentium Pro) design engineer to leadership across microprocessor architecture, manufacturing, device and platform security, and Intel’s Ambient Intelligence Research (AIR) project. Over his tenure, he led four multi-billion-dollar projects from inception to deployment.
Shahrokh holds 40+ U.S. patents for production-grade platform innovations.
Shahrokh holds 40+ U.S. patents for production-grade platform innovations.