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Micha Hershman Has a Marketing Playbook for AI - and a Dojo for Everything Else
He went from shelving graphic novels to scaling SaaS companies. Now JumpCloud's CMO spends his days governing AI agents and his evenings teaching people how to stay calm when plans collapse.
Raz Rafaeli Has Spent 30 Years Making Passwords Look Old
Long before passwordless became a category, Raz Rafaeli was building network tools and running infrastructure companies. His latest act is a ten-year campaign against the credential that refuses to retire.
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.
Ev Kontsevoy
Ev Kontsevoy is the co-founder and CEO of Teleport, a cybersecurity company building the identity-native infrastructure access platform trusted by organizations like Samsung, NASDAQ, and IBM. A serial entrepreneur who grew up in Siberia and studied applied mathematics, he previously co-founded Mailgun (acquired by Rackspace in 2012) before starting Teleport in 2015 to eliminate the fragmented, secrets-based approach to infrastructure security. Under his leadership, Teleport reached a $1.1B valuation with its $110M Series C, and he authored an O'Reilly book on identity-native infrastructure access management. He is now focused on defining agentic identity frameworks for the era of AI-driven enterprise infrastructure.
John Pritchard
Dr. John Pritchard is the CEO of Radiant Logic, where he leads a platform that unifies identity data across hybrid and multi-cloud environments for Fortune 500 enterprises. With a PhD in open innovation in AI from the University of Denver and over 25 years spanning Lockheed Martin, IBM, Adobe, and Okta, Pritchard joined Radiant Logic in 2022 as Chief Product Officer and expanded the company from a virtual directory provider into an AI-powered Identity Security Posture Management platform - before being appointed CEO in January 2025. He is a Forbes Technology Council contributor, Identiverse keynote speaker, and a vocal advocate for treating identity data as a strategic organizational asset.
Karim Toubba
Karim Toubba is the CEO of LastPass, the world's leading password manager with over 100,000 business customers and millions of consumers. A 25-year cybersecurity veteran, he previously led Kenna Security to a successful Cisco acquisition in 2021 and has held executive roles at Juniper Networks and Digital Island. He joined LastPass in April 2022, just months before a major security breach, and has since led a comprehensive transformation of the company's security posture, infrastructure, and culture - turning crisis into opportunity.
Todd McKinnon
Todd McKinnon is the co-founder and CEO of Okta, the leading independent identity platform, which he built from a two-person startup in 2009 into a publicly traded company with over 18,000 customers and $2 billion in annual revenue. A former head of engineering at Salesforce, McKinnon saw the cloud shift coming before most and bet his career - and his family's financial security - on the idea that identity would become the new security perimeter. He has led Okta through its 2017 NASDAQ IPO, a $6.5 billion acquisition of Auth0 in 2021, and a high-profile 2022 security breach, emerging from each as a more seasoned, candid, and mission-driven leader.