
Cycle began with an ambition to take on Atlassian. Six years later, Atlassian bought its technology and team - a turn that brought Mehdi Boudoukhane’s long experiment in listening to customers inside the company he had set out to rival.
Eric Olden is the co-founder, chairman, and CEO of Strata Identity, the Boulder-based company behind the Maverics identity orchestration platform. With more than 25 years in the identity field, he co-authored the SAML federation standard, built the first web single sign-on product and the first Identity-as-a-Service company, and led Oracle's global identity and security division before launching Strata. He has been called the father of modern identity management and holds 13 US patents.