Keith Krach is the co-founder and Chairman of the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue.

 

He was the youngest-ever VP of General Motors, served as the Chairman and CEO of DocuSign, and co-founded Ariba, the world’s largest B2B e-commerce network.

 

During the first Trump Administration, Krach served as the Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment. As America’s top economic diplomat, he built the Clean Network Alliance of Democracies to secure 5G from authoritarian control.

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Keith Krach’s endless quest to challenge the status quo and make a profound and far-reaching impact on the world.

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Krach’s mission: build a Global Trusted Tech Network to ensure technology advances freedom.

The Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue is the world’s preeminent trusted technology accelerator. As the leader in the new category of Tech Diplomacy, the Institute integrates technology expertise, Silicon Valley strategies, and foreign policy tools to ensure technology advances freedom.

Keith Krach at Tech Freedom Awards

Global Tech Security Commission

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The Global Tech Security Commission was chartered with bipartisan support from Congress and international allies to devise a blueprint for how countries, companies, civil society organizations, and individuals must collaborate on an imperative with ever-increasing geopolitical significance: technology must advance freedom.

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The invention of tech statecraft

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As Under Secretary of State, Krach built the Clean Network, an alliance of 60 countries (representing approximately two-thirds of global GDP), more than 200 telcos, and dozens of industry-leading companies committed to keeping untrusted technologies out of their national telecommunications networks. The Clean Network has been taught as a case study at Harvard Business School.

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Keith Krach is one of the few leaders I’ve known in business that could put on a uniform tomorrow and be effective as a general in the United States Army.

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4-Star General (ret.) U.S. Army, Founder & CEO McChrystal Group

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Krach shares the strategic insights that have helped him build billion-dollar companies, create new categories and transform industry, philanthropy, education and diplomacy. ​

CREATING TRUSTED TECH CATEGORIES

Creating a new category that people trust is the best way to establish a dominant market position. This strategy works whether you’re in the public or private sector.

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BUILDING TRUSTED TEAMS

The company or organization with the best team wins, period. To build a high performance team, you need to create an environment where diverse teams can work together with a shared vision. The foundation is TRUST.

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FORMING TRUSTED PARTNERSHIPS

Striking up trusted strategic partnerships is a powerful way to tap new markets, increase scale, and build a brand and bottom line. This is true whether you’re talking enterprise software or NATO.

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CONSTRUCTING TRUST NETWORKS

No matter what you’re trying to achieve, a trusted network can expand your reach and influence. To really accelerate growth, build a network of networks.

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DEVELOPING TRUST STANDARDS

In Silicon Valley, industry standards set the rules of the game. DocuSign created the xDTM standard to measure the level of trust in a transaction. The Clean Network set trust standards that enabled countries to safeguard information and freedom.

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Biography

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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 built the Clean Network Alliance of Democracies to defeat the CCP’s masterplan to control 5G; spearheaded the largest onshoring in US history to secure the semiconductor supply chain; strengthened ties with Taiwan by becoming the highest-ranking State Department official to visit in 41 years, and orchestrating the Lee Economic Prosperity

Partnership; drove divestment in CCP companies to protect US investors from unknowingly financing Chinese military buildup; and mobilized action against CCP’s ethnic/religious genocide in Xinjiang. As a result of these and other national security initiatives, Krach and his family were sanctioned by the CCP.

For his work securing 5G, his advocacy for Taiwan and his actions on behalf of the persecuted Uyghur minority, Krach was nominated for the 2022 Nobel Peace Prize.

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.​

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Jun, 1999

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High Flying Ariba soars up 291 percent in IPO

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Apr, 2018

DocuSign — Krach’s third successful IPO

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Sep, 2020

Keith Krach highest ranking US official to visit Taiwan in 41 years

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Mar, 2022

Keith Krach nominated for 2022 Nobel Peace Prize

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Jun, 1999

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High Flying Ariba soars up 291 percent in IPO

Apr, 2018

DocuSign — Krach’s third successful IPO

Sep, 2020

Keith Krach highest ranking US official to visit Taiwan in 41 years

Mar, 2022

Keith Krach nominated for 2022 Nobel Peace Prize

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Mama Krach’s Korner

What matters most in life is what you do when nobody’s looking.
Ego is your enemy, and humility is your friend.
Success needs no explanation. Failure needs no alibi.
You can have the greatest strategy in the world, but if you can’t execute, you’ll fail every time loud & proud.
People can deny your logic, but they cannot deny your enthusiasm.
The definition of charisma is making someone feel like they are the only one in a crowded room.
The more you face your fears, the braver you become.
When life hands you a bag of sour lemons, the objective of the game is to turn’em into sweet lemonade.