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.
ten transformations
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.
Krach Institute for
Tech Diplomacy at Purdue
Global Tech Security Commission
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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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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The AI Revolution Comes for Farmers Growing a Third of Our Food
Opportunity International, the Krach Institute’s partner in the Trusted Tech Microfinance Initiative, is rolling out a test of its Artificial Intelligence-powered local language app to aid subsistence farmers in some of the poorest parts of the world. Image: Anna Chimalizeni, left, explains how the Ulangizi app works to a group of farmers.
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Keith J. Krach on the U.S.-Taiwan’s Trusted Tech Alliance
In this Q&A, former U.S. Under Secretary of State Keith Krach discusses his role in shaping a global alliance for trusted technology. He highlights the U.S.-Taiwan partnership in countering authoritarian regimes through tech diplomacy, the Clean Network, and a shared commitment to transparency, security, and democratic values in the tech sector.
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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.”
Biography
Read MoreKeith 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.
Jun, 1999
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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