Bio

As an entrepreneur in ‘scale-up’ enterprise-IT companies, I have successfully built international sales and marketing teams from early stage to high growth, scalable and predictive businesses. As you read through my profile, you will notice that I am passionate about the potential value of ‘digital identities’ (IAM) for enterprises. In my current role at iWelcome, I am globally responsible for strategic partners, partner sales, business development, analyst relationships, customer success, marketing and product marketing. iWelcome is a game changer in the IAM-market. The delivery model of IAM functionality has changed from long lasting on-premise deployments to plug-and-play as-a-service cloud delivery and the focus of IAM has shifted from serving employees to serving customers and enabling digital transformation. iWelcome today serves blue-chip enterprises across Europe and is acknowledged as product leader in Consumer Identity & Consent Management (ranked 'excellent' by Gartner and 'product leader' by KuppingerCole). Prior to iWelcome, I was co-founder and -owner of BHOLD, a product leader in Identity Governance and Administration, who's technology was acquired by Microsoft Corporation in 2011 and today is part of Microsoft's IAM platform. After the Microsoft acquisition the core team of BHOLD started the development of one of the first cloud identity applications, integrating revolutionary PKI technology. I am part of the executive team, and on a daily basis leading the sales team and in close contact with customers, Auditors, IT-industry analysts, technology partners and deployment partners to further develop our service and deployment strategies to the needs of current and potential customers. Specialties: IDaaS, Consumer IAM (CIAM), Cloud security and SSO, Authorization Management and Role Based Access Control (RBAC), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), GDPR, PSD2, PKI and X.509.