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Oren Harel
Oren Ohayon Harel is the CEO and co-founder of PlainID, the Tel Aviv- and New York-based authorization company that turned policy-based access control (PBAC) from an XACML white paper into a category. He founded PlainID in 2014 with Gal Helemski and Dmitry Tuchinsky after a decade spent inside Israeli banking security, most recently as Deputy CISO at Bank Hapoalim. He raised a $75M Series C led by Insight Partners in December 2021, bringing PlainID's total funding to roughly $100M.
Howard Ting
Howard Ting is the CEO of Opal Security, a San Francisco identity-security company building a unified control plane for access governance. He took the top job in November 2025 after more than five years running Cyberhaven and two-plus decades scaling category-defining security and enterprise-software companies including Palo Alto Networks, Nutanix, Redis, Zscaler, and RSA Security. A marketing-and-product operator who once demoed Azure Active Directory on stage with Bill Gates, Ting now bets that the hardest unsolved problem in security is authorization: deciding what any human, service, or AI agent should be allowed to do, and for how long.
Dedra Chamberlin
Dedra Chamberlin is the founder and CEO of Cirrus Identity, an Oakland-based cloud identity company that helps more than 200 universities run single sign-on and federated login without the friction. She arrived at identity management sideways - a UC Berkeley psychology major with master's degrees in city planning and Latin American studies who volunteered for a one-year networking internship and never left. After two decades inside UC Berkeley and UCSF IT, where she rose to Deputy Director of Identity and Access Management and chaired the University of California's system-wide identity strategy workgroup, she founded Cirrus in 2013 to build the education-specific identity tools she wished vendors had made. She is a board member of SimpleSAMLphp and a founder of IAM-HER, a community advancing women in the identity field.
Eric Olden
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.
Umaimah Khan
Umaimah Khan is the co-founder and CEO of Opal Security, a San Francisco identity security company building the controls that decide who - and increasingly what - can access an organization's systems. A homeschooled math kid who entered MIT at 16 and fell for cryptography, she did research embedded with government agencies including DARPA, then engineered infrastructure and security at two startups that became unicorns. She founded Opal in 2020 to treat authorization as the hard technical problem she believes it is, and has raised roughly $32M, including a $22M Series B in December 2023. Opal's customers include Cloudflare, Figma, Databricks, Scale AI, Grammarly and Perplexity.
Yaser Masoudnia
Yaser Masoudnia is the co-founder and CEO of BlueTape, a fintech company that gives the construction industry's suppliers, contractors and distributors the payment tools and working capital they have long been denied. A serial entrepreneur and a licensed general contractor with over a decade swinging a hammer, he previously built and exited the cybersecurity startup NoPassword (acquired by LogMeIn), then ran the LastPass product team. He started coding games on a Commodore 64 at 13 in Iran and now splits his identity between two worlds most people keep apart: software and construction sites.
Mohit Garg
Mohit Garg is the co-founder and CEO of OLOID, a Sunnyvale-based company building passwordless authentication and identity tools for the 1.8 billion frontline and deskless workers who clock in on shared devices rather than personal laptops. A serial entrepreneur out of Silicon Valley, he earlier co-founded Mindtickle, the AI-driven sales-readiness platform that grew into a unicorn, and trained at the Stanford StartX accelerator on a computer-vision product for the enterprise. He was named to Thinkers50's Leaders50 list in 2024.
Geoffrey Mattson
Geoffrey Mattson is the CEO of SecureAuth, an AI-driven identity and access management company based in Irvine, California. A globally recognized cybersecurity and AI engineer, Mattson brings a career spanning Bell Labs, Nortel, Huawei, Juniper Networks, Bay Networks, and multiple security startups. He co-founded MistNet.ai, an AI-driven threat detection platform acquired by LogRhythm in 2021, then led Xage Security to 420% revenue growth as CEO before joining SecureAuth in December 2025. He holds multiple patents in AI, cybersecurity, and networking, and is focused on securing the emerging frontier of human, machine, and AI-agent identities.
Venkat Bhat
Venkat Bhat is the CEO and founder of VentureSoft Global, an $80 million IT services and consulting firm headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Founded in 1996, VentureSoft has grown to serve over 300 clients - from startups to Fortune 500 companies including Tesla, Nike, Intuit, and Citigroup - across data & AI, cybersecurity, cloud, ERP/CRM, and managed services. With offices in North America, Dubai, and Bengaluru, Bhat has built a global delivery model that blends deep technical expertise with business transformation, and is now steering the company into the era of generative AI and enterprise AI platforms.
Belsasar Lepe
Belsasar 'Bel' Lepe is co-founder and CEO of Cerby, the identity automation platform built to secure the applications that traditional identity tools ignore - the sprawling layer of disconnected, nonstandard, and unmanageable apps that enterprises actually run on. A first-generation Mexican-American and Stanford Computer Science graduate, Lepe started at Google at 18, then co-founded Ooyala - a video technology company that achieved two exits totaling over $440M - before turning his attention to the gaping hole in enterprise identity security. Cerby raised $54M in Series B funding in 2025, counts L'Oréal, Fox, and Allstate among its customers, and has grown ARR 10x in under two years.