Gartner Identity & Access Management Summit

Ant Allan, Ph.D., is a Research Vice President in Gartner Research. He is a core member of the identity and access management (IAM) research community and specializes in IAM program management and in key "authentication" and related "administration" technologies, processes, policies and best practices.

Jim Barnett is a senior strategic advisor at AARP, where he serves as an in-house consultant in several functional areas, including Digital Strategy, Enterprise Strategy and Membership. He serves as the eyes and ears of senior leaders, seeking innovative approaches to emerging opportunities as well as stubborn organizational challenges. He represents AARP to the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group in support of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC). He holds an MPA from George Washington University, an MA in journalism from UNC-Chapel Hill and a BA from Georgetown University. Previously, he worked 20 years as a newspaper reporter

Dave Barry is a humor columnist. For 25 years he was a syndicated columnist whose work appeared in more than 500 newspapers in the United States and abroad. In 1988 he won the Pulitzer Prize for Commentary. Many people are still trying to figure out how this happened. Dave has also written a total of 30 books, although virtually none of them contain useful information. Two of his books were used as the basis for the CBS TV sitcom "Dave's World," in which Harry Anderson played a much taller version of Dave. Dave plays lead guitar in a literary rock band called the Rock Bottom Remainders, whose other members include Stephen King, Amy Tan, Ridley Pearson and Mitch Albom. They are not musically skilled, but they are extremely loud. Dave has also made many TV appearances, including one on the David Letterman show where he proved that it is possible to set fire to a pair of men's underpants with a Barbie doll. In his spare time, Dave is a candidate for president of the United States. If elected, his highest priority will be to seek the death penalty for whoever is responsible for making Americans install low-flow toilets. Dave lives in Miami, Florida, with his wife, Michelle, a sportswriter. He has a son, Rob, and a daughter, Sophie, neither of whom thinks he's funny.

David is the VP Product Management for Axiomatics. His main area of expertise is SOA security and IAM. David has published several papers and contributed to several books on the topic of SOA security. David is also a member of the OASIS XACML Technical Committee where he is currently authoring a JSON profile for XACML. David holds a Master’s of Engineering from the French National Institute of Applied Sciences, INSA Lyon. He is also a Sun Certified Architect (SCEA) and a Certified Security Testing Professional (CSTP).

Nelson Cicchitto is Chairman and CEO of Avatier Corporation, a company he founded in 1997. Today, Avatier is one of the leading IAG companies in the world. Prior to founding Avatier, Cicchitto founded Master Design & Development, Inc. and before that he held senior and lead architect positions at Chevron and Pacific Bell. Cicchitto graduated with honors from the University of North Texas with a B.S. degree in Computer Science and a minor in business. Nelson is active in a number of groups and associations, holds four patents, is a Certified Novell Instructor and a Certified Novell Engineer.

Kevin Cunningham, president and founder of SailPoint, oversees product innovation and global client services, and has a proven track record of delivering forward-looking products to the market. Cunningham previously founded Waveset Technologies, which was acquired by Sun Microsystems.

Lorenzo has over thirty years of experience in the IT industry. He has deep, hands-on technology as well as extensive experience in working with business partners to create innovative business solutions. He is a proven leader and mentor who has created and led teams throughout the global enterprise.

Irma Fabular is a senior managing partner with Gartner Consulting. She leads the North America Consulting industry practices for education, academic medical centers and healthcare providers. Ms. Fabular has more than 25 years of experience in various aspects of information technology strategic planning, acquisition, implementation and project management. She has led many consulting engagements focused on optimizing the contributions of information technology solutions and resources to organizational performance and transformation. Her areas of expertise include strategic planning, governance, IT services management, application software and integration service procurement, portfolio management, project and program office development, and independent verification and validation. Ms. Fabular has worked with several large organizations in education, healthcare, government and other nonprofit industries.

Mike Futty has managed server architecture, engineering, operations and security teams in some of the world's largest and technically complex infrastructures. Strong business acumen coupled with the skill to design and deliver creative solutions to solve complex business challenges have enabled Mike to overcome several major industry challenges during his career, including his most recent invention of a patent pending class of service management system providing enterprise-level user and server security access controls.

As Vice President of Marketing, Jason Garbis is responsible for leading Aveksa's product and corporate marketing teams and activities. Prior to joining Aveksa, Jason led go-to-market activities for the Cloud Computing and Data Center Automation products for BMC Software, a $2 billion Business Service Management software company. Jason joined BMC Software via the acquisition of BladeLogic, where he was responsible for the go-to-market strategy for the company's award-winning Data Center Automation software solutions. Jason brings over 20 years of proven product management experience, having successfully led teams for leading technology companies such as IONA, Mercury/HP, and IMlogic. Jason has a B.A in Computer Science from Cornell University, an MBA from Northeastern University, and is also a published author.

Mark E. Gilbert has an extensive background in telecommunications services in both the public and private sectors over the past 20 years.

Jasvir Gill, the Founder and CEO of AlertEnterprise, has more than 20 years of experience in security, compliance and access management. Jasvir has personally worked with many of today's largest companies and most recognizable brands to deliver security and controls solutions for risk management and regulatory compliance. This experience led to the founding of Virsa Systems and the development of an innovative packaged security and compliance solution to effectively prevent fraud and theft. Jasvir drove the growth of Virsa Systems as an enterprise software provider, signing up over 400 major corporations and organizations as customers; Virsa Systems went on to become one of the largest acquisitions in the GRC space. In 2007, Jasvir founded AlertEnterprise. The vision of AlertEnterprise stemmed from the feedback of many Fortune 100 customers who needed a solution to address Insider Threat to critical infrastructure industries.

Ian Glazer is a Research Vice President and the Agenda Manager on the GTP Identity and Privacy Strategies team. He leads IdPS' coverage for authorization and privacy. Topics within these two main areas include externalized authorization management, XACML, federated authorization, privacy by design, and privacy programs. Other topics he covers include user provisioning, identity and access governance, access certification, role management, identity data quality, and national identity programs. Mr. Glazer is also a member of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) Identity Ecosystem Steering Group's Management Council. As an at-large delegate to the Management Council, he ensures that all voices are heard among the wide range of industries, technologies, and advocates for whom identity, privacy, and NSTIC are crucial.

Kelly Grizzle is a Principal Software Engineer at SailPoint. During his six years at SailPoint, Kelly helped architect and develop the company's market-leading IAM product, SailPoint IdentityIQ. He is also active in the SCIM working group, serving as a primary author of the SCIM 1.0 specification. Kelly has more than a decade of experience in identity and systems management, holding technical roles at Waveset, Sun, TriActive and Tivoli. He has a bachelor's degree in computer science from the University of Texas.

An early pioneer in the internet and open source industries, Dick became interested in internet identity to ease registration of developers at ActiveState.com. Dick developed the famous Identity 2.0 presentation to inspire broader thinking on what identity is and what was possible in world with a pervasive digital identity infrastructure. Dick is active in the full spectrum of the identity industry: from the OAuth 2.0 specifications to advising organizations on policy and architecture for next generation identity deployments.

Trent Henry is a Research VP covering identity and security. His primary research topics include authentication, PKI, information protection, and mobility and identity.

Chris Howard is a Chief of Research for Gartner's Enterprise Software group. In that role, Mr. Howard ensures that the research agenda meets the needs of IT leaders and influences the overall practice of enterprise technology. Mr. Howard also leads the Nexus of Forces research agenda, which is a major Gartner theme for 2013.

Stephanie Jaecks has many years of IAM experiences. Since 2008 Stephanie Jaecks has been Program Manager for Bayer’s Global IAM Program. Stephanie Jaecks is an experienced speaker both externally at conferences e.g. Kuppinger Cole Identity Conference, and internally at Bayer.

Ranjan Jain is a Security Architect for Enterprise Identity and Access management domain in Cisco Systems based in San Jose, California. He is a twelve-year security veteran and has played various roles in the security domain. He has a Masters in Computer Applications from India and he enjoys spending time with his family. In his Architect role, he enjoys solving the various challenges IAM platform brings in and he recently designed the new OAuth architecture for the Cisco Enterprise Mobile Platform. He is currently working on enabling Zero Sign On capabilities in Cisco and also leading the stronger authentication project for web applications. Ranjan believes that password is the necessary evil and enterprises should be proactive in reducing their password footprint. He has plans to make "Zero Password Day" for the Cisco users as a reality for validating their identity.

As Senior Vice President of Product Development for Oracle's identity management and security products, Mr. Jasuja is responsible for all aspects of technical strategy, product management, development, and partner and sales enablement. Mr. Jasuja joined Oracle in 2005 in the newly created identity management line of business and helped create the market-leading product line. Prior to joining Oracle, Mr. Jasuja was Vice President, Product Management, at Netegrity. During his five years at Netegrity, his team was responsible for product planning and strategy for the company's entire product line. A security industry veteran, Mr. Jasuja also spent nine years at Oracle as a Director of Development for database security. Mr. Jasuja holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from IIT, Kharagpur (India) and master's degree in Computer Science from University of California, Davis.

Dividing his time between North America, Europe and Asia, Former Stockbroker turned Author and Speaker, Mark Jeffries, is invited to speak at and moderate major corporate conventions, conferences and meetings. Jeffries offers a valuable and extremely relevant toolbox of innovative and instantly useable communication ideas designed to help you refine the way you communicate, negotiate, network, and connect with your clients, customers and colleagues. Working with organizations that include: Microsoft, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, CA Technologies, HP, Nexen, Boeing, Bank of America, Royal Bank of Canada. Mark introduces instantly useable ideas and techniques deployable within any business situation. From building and maintaining valuable relationships to the subtleties of word power and the secrets of planting ideas, accumulating payback credits and leveraging networking secrets, Jeffries shares how the intangible skills of tailored-communication are always the ones that build your influence, win new clients and grow sustainable revenue.

Gregg Kreizman has 30 years of IT industry experience. Prior to Gartner, Mr. Kreizman served in several technical and managerial roles for The World Bank, U.S. federal government contractors and state government. Following five years supporting clients as part of Gartner's Government Industry Research team, he moved to the Security, Risk and Privacy group. There he supports Gartner's cross-industry client base and covers single sign-on, password management, identity federation, identity as a service (IDaaS), the evolving Internet identity protocols and their nexus with enterprise identity and access management systems, and general identity and access management topics. Mr. Kreizman also covers electronic signature, an area of increasing client demand.

Sriram Krishnan, Director, Special Markets

Mr. Robert Krugman has been the Vice President of Digital Strategy for Broadridge Financial since June of 2010. Mr. Krugman is responsible for developing strategies and introducing new solutions that will enable the investment industry to migrate to and take advantage of digital channels in communicating with clients and other industry participants. Mr. Krugman has more than 20 years of experience in technology, business and product strategy within the financial services industry, most recently in positions that leveraged his expertise in customer experience, process automation and financial data. Prior to joining Broadridge, Mr. Krugman served as a Vice President with TheMarkets.com and a Senior Vice President of Product Development with Edgar Online Inc. In these roles, Mr. Krugman was responsible for setting the strategic direction and implementing new products leveraging XBRL and other schematic technologies. Prior to joining Edgar (R) Online, Mr. Krugman was a Consultant with Avenue A | Razorfish. Working primarily as a Consultant to the financial industry, he assisted clients with product / technical strategy and deployment. Mr. Krugman holds several patents and is a frequent speaker at industry events on the use data and digital channels indeveloping communication strategies.

Steve Lavigne, an IT manager at Adobe Systems Inc., manages global teams responsible for all worker account management and identity management administration, as wells as Client Services (desktop support) for locations across North and South America. He joined Adobe in 2002 and has served as a Client Services team lead, systems administrator, business analyst and project manager.

Philip Lieberman, the founder and president of Lieberman Software, has more than 30 years of experience in the security software industry. In addition to his proficiency as a software engineer, Mr. Lieberman is an astute entrepreneur able to perceive shortcomings in existing products on the market, and fill those gaps with innovative solutions. He developed the first products for the privileged identity management space, and continues to introduce new solutions to resolve the security threat of unmanaged privileged account credentials. Mr. Lieberman earned a B.A. from San Francisco State University and has published numerous books and articles on computer science, has taught at UCLA, and has authored computer science courses for Learning Tree International.

Philip Lieberman, the founder and president of Lieberman Software, has more than 30 years of experience in the software industry. In addition to his proficiency as a software engineer, Mr. Lieberman is an astute entrepreneur able to perceive shortcomings in existing products on the market, and fill those gaps with innovative solutions. He developed the first products for the privileged identity management space, and continues to introduce new solutions to resolve the security threat of privileged account credentials. Mr. Lieberman has published numerous books and articles on computer science, has taught at UCLA, and has authored many computer science courses for Learning Tree International. He has a B.A. from San Francisco State University.

Avivah Litan is a Vice President and Distinguished Analyst in Gartner Research. Her area of expertise includes fraud detection and prevention applications, authentication, identity proofing, identity theft, and other areas of adaptive access management, information security, and risk. She also covers the PCI compliance program, tokenization, and the security aspects of payment systems.

Eric Maass is the Chief Technology Officer of Lighthouse Security Group, a premier provider of cloud-based Identity and Access Management (IAM) services. Responsible for the company’s product strategy and roadmap, Eric lead the launch of Lighthouse Security Group in 2007 and its flagship IAM cloud offering, Lighthouse Gateway. Based upon IBM software technology, Maass’ vision was brought live in 2009 with the production launch of Lighthouse Gateway. Since then, the solution has attracted numerous clients, including those within the Fortune 500, received accolades from industry, and today serves millions of international users in over 50 countries. Prior to his position at Lighthouse, Maass was formerly the Chief Security Architect with Lockheed Martin for the U.S. Air Force’s Global Combat Support System, and had worked extensively in multi-tenant IAM with the Air Force, NSA, and FBI.

Paul Madsen is a Senior Technical Architect within the Office of the CTO at Ping Identity. He has participated in various design, chairing, editing, and education roles for a number of identity standards, including OASIS SAML, the Simple Cloud Identity Management (SCIM), OAuth 2.0, and TV Everywhere. He holds an M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics and a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics from Carleton University and the University of Western Ontario respectively.

Tim McKay is Kaiser Permanente’s Director of Digital Integration, responsible for determining how the online identities for its flagship Web site, kp.org—actively used by 4 million people with secure accounts—are established, used and maintained. Dr. McKay’s practice in identity management has been strongly informed by his background as a pediatric clinical psychologist, an applied researcher in population health management, and a medical operations manager. He is a frequent speaker on topics related to usable online consumer security, and as a member of the HL7 Group is a principal contributor to industry standards for Personal Health Records systems.

As Senior Director of Product Management at Centrify, David works with customers to drive the roadmap for Centrify's award-winning Identity and Access Management solutions. David has worked in the Identity and Access management market for over 16 years holding various Product Marketing and Management positions at ActiveIdentity, AOL, iPlanet and Netscape. At Netscape and iPlanet he was the Director of Product Management for the Directory and Security product line where he first promoted the concept of a centralized Directory for all identity and access management.

David Miller, Covisint’s Chief Security Officer is an internationally renowned security thought leader recently named by FORTUNE magazine as an “identity visionary”. Miller has more than 20 years of experience in identity management and information technology. He is Chief Security Officer for Covisint, where he is responsible for internal and external system architecture security issues for e-business exchange. In addition, Miller directs the identity management offering at Covisint, which currently secures access for automotive, healthcare, energy and government customers. Miller has spoken at numerous conferences in various industries and has also spoke before the U.S. Senate regarding e-prescribing of controlled substances.

Mark Nicolett is a vice president in Gartner Research. His research in the security, risk and compliance area focuses on security information and event management, database activity monitoring, vulnerability management, configuration audit, and IT governance risk and compliance management.

Lawrence Orans focuses on network security research. He assists chief information security officers and other security professionals in developing network-based strategies for mitigating security threats. His recent research notes and presentations have addressed vulnerabilities in the Internet infrastructure and how enterprises can mitigate these risks. Other research highlights BYOD security challenges and strategies for protecting against advanced targeted threats. With his 15 years at Gartner, Mr. Orans has nearly 30 years of experience in the IT industry. He has held systems engineering positions with IBM, 3Com and Bay Networks, where he helped customers migrate from SNA to TCP/IP networks.

Earl Perkins is a Research Vice President in Systems, Security and Risk at Gartner. His focus areas include: (1) identity and access management (IAM), including user administration/provisioning; (2) identity and access governance (IAG); (3) externalized authorization management; (4) IAM consulting, system integration, managed services, and IAM for cloud; (5) IAM strategy, markets and futures; and (6) industrial control or operational technology (OT) security.

Joy Pritts joined the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, Department of Health & Human Services in February 2010 as its first Chief Privacy Officer. Ms. Pritts provides critical advice to the Secretary and the National Coordinator in developing and implementing ONC’s privacy and security programs under HITECH. She works closely with the Office for Civil Rights and other operating divisions of HHS, as well as with other government agencies to help ensure a coordinated approach to key privacy and security issues. Prior to joining ONC, Ms. Pritts held a joint appointment as a Senior Scholar with the O’Neill Institute for National and Global Health Law and as a Research Associate Professor with the Health Policy Institute, Georgetown University. She has an extensive background in confidentiality laws including the HIPAA Privacy Rule, federal alcohol and substance abuse treatment confidentiality laws, the Common Rule governing federally funded research, and state health information privacy laws.

Lori Rowland is the managing vice president for the identity and privacy strategies team in the IT Professionals Research group at Gartner.

As CTO & Vice President of Development for Authentify, Inc., Mr. Rolfe brings over 30 years of experience in technical management and software engineering to Authentify's executive team. Prior to joining Authentify, he was an Executive Vice President at Bank of America. His responsibilities included overall architecture and development processes for a series of Internet financial products for the bank's commercial customers. Before Bank of America, Mr. Rolfe was employee number two at NetDox, a secure Internet document delivery service provider. He served as Vice President of Development, senior architect, and senior designer. Earlier in his career, Mr. Rolfe also held key technical and managerial positions at AT&T Bell Laboratories and Odesta Systems Corporation.

Mary Ruddy is a Research Director on the GTP Identity and Privacy Strategies team. Her primary focus areas are: federation, Web access management (WAM) and enterprise single sign-on (eSSO.) Other topics she covers include mobile authorization, trust elevation (step-up, dynamic and active authentication), trust frameworks, government identity initiatives, and open identity. Ms. Ruddy is also a member of the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG) and was elected to the IDESG Management Council as the Usability and Human factors delegate. She is a founding member of the OASIS Electronic Identity Credential Trust Elevation Methods Technical Committee and Chair of Identity Commons.

Nat Sakimura has been working on digital identity and privacy for the past decade. He has been active in standardization spaces such as OpenID Foundation, IETF, and ISO, as well as in the public policy space serving in various committees in the Japanese government. He is a contributor to IETF OAuth 2.0, JSON Web Encryption, and is a co-author of OpenID Connect and JSON Web Signature.

Tom Scholtz is a Research Vice President in Gartner, where he advises clients on security management strategies and trends, and is an acknowledged authority on information security policy design, security organizational dynamics, and security management processes. Based in the United Kingdom, Mr. Scholtz is a regular presenter at European industry events.

A key governmental cyber security initiative, the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) charts a course for the public and private sectors to collaborate to raise the level of trust associated with the identities of individuals, organizations, networks, services, and devices involved in online transactions. As a member of the NSTIC national program office in Washington, D.C., Jim manages strategic alliances with NSTIC stakeholders and serves as chief evangelist in outreach programs and communications. Jim draws on over fifteen years of policy and business experience, previously serving as an aide to Senator Ron Wyden (D-OR), as a policy specialist for Philips Electronics, and most recently in business development and communications for NXP Semiconductors, a leading cyber security and identity management technology provider.

Doug Simmons is Burton Group vice president of consulting services. His expertise is in enterprise, e-business and service provider security, risk management, data loss prevention, identity and access management, application and data security, network security, security policy and program development, PKI, messaging and collaboration services.

As Chief Information Officer, Kristen Singleton provides vision and leadership for The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas’ strategic business objectives through the applied use of technology. Singleton is responsible for operating a reliable and stable IT infrastructure, fostering innovation and business partnerships as well as the management of current and future technology products, services and systems across the organization. Prior to her position at The Cosmopolitan, Kristen Singleton served as Chief Information Officer for Kimpton Hotels & Restaurants, where she was responsible for all technology operations ranging from design to installations as well as initiatives for delivering reliable, stable business solutions. In 2002, Singleton joined MGM MIRAGE as Senior Project Manager and was promoted to Business Development Manager within five months of joining the company. As Business Development Manager, Singleton was responsible for identifying and implementing technology business solutions to enable achievement of MGM MIRAGE’S corporate strategies and objectives, ultimately streamlining the number of property management systems utilized across all properties. Singleton was named Vice President of Business Solutions in 2006 and oversaw business solutions management, program management, project management and application support for the property’s core areas - hotel, casino, food & beverage, retail, media entertainment and security & surveillance. She was also responsible for IT solutions for new property development. In addition, Singleton has also served as Chief Information Officer for Chasm Industries, Inc., an electronic recycling company, and spent 15 years at Hallmark Cards, Inc. At Hallmark, she joined as Programmer Analyst and held various technology management rolls supporting functions including IT Technical Training, Application Support, Systems Development, Portfolio Management, and Strategic Development. Kris earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems and General Management from Central Missouri State University.

John D. Stuart is Chief Information Officer of Beverly Hills Wealth Management BHWM). He was born in Oregon and educated in Southern California and Madrid, Spain. He graduated from Point Loma Nazarene University with a degree in Management Information Systems and Business Administration. He received an MsBA with an Information Decision Systems concentration from San Diego State University. John is also an Advisory Board Director for Financial Communication Partners and Wright Brothers Communications. John is a strategic thought leader at BHWM and Technology Evangelist for Independent Financial Service providers. He is responsible for the design, implementation, and execution of Information Technology, Process, and Operations at BHWM. He is also responsible for the Business Development Model with special focus on strategic partnerships, compensation, profitability, and change management. Prior to his role at BHWM, John worked within the IT group and Office of Business Management at Morgan Stanley. He has held the title of Public Relations Officer to the San Diego Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery. Speaking Engagements: McAfee Focus Security Conference

As Vice President of Product Planning, Chris is responsible for developing and bringing new products and solutions to market. In this capacity, Chris leads the Product Management and Courion Labs teams, cultivating and innovating new ideas that effectively address the industry's on-going challenges. Prior to this role, Chris was Vice President of Customer Solutions as well as Vice President of Professional Services. Chris is a frequent speaker at industry conferences including the European Identity Conference, Catalyst, MISTI IT GRC, ISACA ISRM/IT GRC and CONVERGE, Courion’s annual customer conference.

Heidi Wachs is a Research Director on the GTP Identity and Privacy Strategies team.

Ray Wagner, Ph.D., is Managing Vice President of the Secure Business Enablement group, which is part of the Information Security and Privacy research organization of Gartner Research. Mr. Wagner focuses on a wide range of security issues, including identity and access management, Web services security, public-key infrastructures, digital rights management, the information security organization, and information security issues within emerging technologies.

Andrew Walls is a Research Vice President in Gartner Research, where he specializes in information security practices, tools and markets in social media, enterprise governance, awareness/communications, directories, investigations, managed security services and security program management. Security practices and markets in the Asia/Pacific region are also a focus of his research agenda.

Jeffrey Wheatman is a research director within Gartner's Information Security, Risk Management and Privacy research group. As an experienced analyst within Gartner's S&RM team, Mr. Wheatman works with senior security and risk management leaders to help them identify, assess and remediate IT-related risks within their environments.

As Senior Director of Product Management, Corey oversees the strategic vision, tactical roadmap and company-wide go-to-market plan for Centrify DirectControl for Applications solutions for packaged, SaaS and Mobile apps. Corey is a veteran technology marketer, with more than 17 years' enterprise software marketing experience. He has held senior sales, marketing and product management positions at webMethods (Acquired by Software AG), Active Software (Acquired by webMethods) and Hewlett Packard. Corey holds undergraduate degrees in Math and Computer Science as well as an MS in Engineering and an MBA.