Peter Burchhardt

Entrepreneur & investor

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

With a mission to protect online privacy and security, Peter and his co-founder, Dan Pomerantz, bootstrapped ExpressVPN and remained equal owners until its sale. Over the next 14 years, Peter’s role evolved to focus on hiring, developing, and leading people. Under his leadership, ExpressVPN created jobs for more than 1,000 people across over 20 cities, spent hundreds of millions of US dollars on vendors and salaries, and cultivated a community 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.