Bio

Proven leadership - building and leading effective, highly-focused, creative, and energetic teams. I have the unique distinction of engaging from many different perspectives -- from Corporate CTO and Senior Vice President of Product Management to Business Unit General Manager and Industry Analyst -- where I have studied the market, understood the customer needs, identified opportunities, devised strategies, architected solutions, built and led teams, developed effective products, fleshed out the messaging and go-to-market strategies, and grew successful businesses. With over 25 years of experience, I have built many innovative, industry leading cybersecurity products, both on premises and in the cloud, that meet the expanding needs of today's enterprise – I have conducted extensive industry research, gaining a deep understanding of the challenges that many organizations face, and I have helped them address and improve the security of their environments as well as the effectiveness of their businesses. Expert in product strategy, design, implementation, messaging and deployment, with an emphasis toward the creation of compelling and sustainable business solutions. Recognized as an industry expert in cybersecurity, identity and access management, cloud security, privacy, and risk – spanning many verticals including Financial Services, Retail, Manufacturing, Telecom, Government, Pharmaceuticals, and Healthcare. Specialties: Identity, access, and security management – cloud security, cloud identity, identity as a service (IDaaS), identity analytics, enterprise identity, consumer identity, securing the internet of things (IoT), access governance, risk, and compliance, identity provisioning, RBAC, ABAC, federation, multi-factor authentication, adaptive authorization, privileged access management (PAM), DevSecOps, blockchain, directory, meta-directory, virtual directory, SIEM, and application integration.