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Denny LeCompte
Denny LeCompte is the CEO of Portnox, an Austin-based cybersecurity company that delivers cloud-native network access control and zero trust access for enterprises. A former cognitive psychology professor with a Ph.D. from Rice University, he spent two decades in product strategy at IT and security vendors including SolarWinds and AlienVault before taking the helm at Portnox in 2022. Under his leadership the company grew roughly 8x, and he was named a 2025 Cyber Leader of the Year. He writes the widely read 'Access Granted' LinkedIn column, arguing that cybersecurity is as much a human problem as a technical one.
Jasson Casey
Jasson Casey is the CEO and cofounder of Beyond Identity, a New York-based identity security company that builds passwordless, phishing-resistant multi-factor authentication designed to make identity-based attacks impossible. An engineer with a PhD from Texas A&M and more than two decades in security and networking, Casey has held senior technical leadership roles at IronNet Cybersecurity and SecurityScorecard, founded the software-defined networking ventures Flowgrammable and Compiled Networks, and served as a cybersecurity fellow at CSIS. He now argues that flaws in identity systems, not passwords alone, are the root cause of modern breaches and that cryptographically device-bound credentials are the way to stop phishing, credential theft, and AI deepfakes at the source.
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.
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.
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.