Peter Burchhardt

Entrepreneur & investor

Peter Burchhardt is an entrepreneur and investor. He bootstrapped and co-founded ExpressVPN in 2009, growing it into one of the most well-known VPN providers in the world with 4 million active paying customers. He sold the business in 2021 and completed the transition to the new owners in 2023.

With a mission to protect online privacy and security, Peter initially wrote a lot the code himself, allowing ExpressVPN to bootstrap and remain in 50-50 ownership with his co-founder Dan Pomerantz until the sale. Over the next 14 years, Peter's role evolved into hiring, developing, and leading people, creating more than 1,000 jobs in over 20 cities and spending hundreds of millions of US dollars on vendors and salaries. Above all, Peter is most proud of cultivating a community of ExpressVPN colleagues centred on psychological safety, humility, and radical candour.

Today, Peter invests in and mentors other entrepreneurs through his investment firm, Titanium Birch. He is passionate about empowering businesses that create value for the world.

Peter graduated from the University of Pennsylvania in 2003 with a BS in Economics from Wharton and a BS in Engineering through the Jerome Fisher Program in Management & Technology. Before founding ExpressVPN, he spent five years at Microsoft.