Experience

Strata Identity

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Co-founder and CEO

  • Aug 2019 - 4 years 5 months

  Boulder Colorado and California Bay Area Strata is the distributed multi-cloud identity company. Our vision is a new distributed approach to identity management. We call this an Identity Fabric. We are changing the way identity works in hybrid and multi-cloud environments and helping our customers migrate from legacy to modern identity systems without rewriting applications. Using the Maverics Platform you can run your apps wherever you want using the identity system you like. This truly distributed approach to… Show more Strata is the distributed multi-cloud identity company. Our vision is a new distributed approach to identity management. We call this an Identity Fabric. We are changing the way identity works in hybrid and multi-cloud environments and helping our customers migrate from legacy to modern identity systems without rewriting applications. Using the Maverics Platform you can run your apps wherever you want using the identity system you like. This truly distributed approach to identity helps to overcome the fragmentation of using multiple cloud identity systems and breaks lock-in to legacy identity systems. Check us out at https://strata.io to learn more or get a demo. Show less



Oracle

• United States
• Warehousing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• SVP and GM, Cloud Security and Identity Management

  • Oct 2017 - Jul 2019

  Boulder Colorado, Redwood Shores California, wherever our customers are I'm responsible for product research and development, DevOps and product management for Oracle's Cloud Security and Identity portfolio globally. * Run an extended organization of 700+ globally * R&D, DevOps, Customer Adoption and Product Management * 7 US State and 5 Countries * Responsible for M&A in Cloud Security and Identity * Developed Trust Fabric strategy to unify Oracle's security messaging and positioning * Recruited to turn security group into cloud native… Show more I'm responsible for product research and development, DevOps and product management for Oracle's Cloud Security and Identity portfolio globally. * Run an extended organization of 700+ globally * R&D, DevOps, Customer Adoption and Product Management * 7 US State and 5 Countries * Responsible for M&A in Cloud Security and Identity * Developed Trust Fabric strategy to unify Oracle's security messaging and positioning * Recruited to turn security group into cloud native organization * Led dialtone initiative to reach global scale in 10+ data centers * Recruited a strong team of thought leaders, cloud architects and product innovators * Led transformation of global product process using Agile Pods - a 1st at Oracle * Portfolio recognized in 2 Gartner Magic Quadrants - Identity Governance & Access Management * Introduced Design Driven Development * Introduced Customer Development Programs Show less



Brite Content

• United States
• Software Development
• 1 - 100 Employee

• CEO

  • Jun 2014 - Sep 2017

  Boulder Brite Content is an integrated platform for automating marketing on YouTube. With Brite’s software and data, marketers can easily plan, target, measure and optimize campaigns on YouTube - at scale, automatically and transparently.



Launch Sciences

• United States
• Business Consulting and Services

• Founding Partner

  • Apr 2013 - Sep 2017

  Boulder CO Launch Sciences helps startup founders with consulting and advice to build high growth SaaS identity and security companies.



SkyDeck | Berkeley

• Mentor

  • Jan 2013 - Sep 2017

  Berkeley California Helping the next great wave of startups from my favorite school take off!



TechStars

• Ireland
• Think Tanks

• Mentor

  • Apr 2013 - Jun 2015

  Boulder Helping great teams do great things.



Symplified, Inc.

• United States
• IT Services and IT Consulting
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Chairman, CEO and Founder

  • Apr 2006 - Jun 2012

  Boulder Colorado Eric founded Symplified in 2006 with the vision that the cloud and mobile will revolutionize computing driving the need for a new way to secure & deliver apps. As a technical CEO and the chief designer of Symplified’s platform, Eric built Symplified into the leading provider of Identity-as-a-Service. Olden is a frequent speaker in security, mobile and the cloud. Eric’s vision has been published in technical journals, including the IEEE and holds multiple patents in identity management.… Show more Eric founded Symplified in 2006 with the vision that the cloud and mobile will revolutionize computing driving the need for a new way to secure & deliver apps. As a technical CEO and the chief designer of Symplified’s platform, Eric built Symplified into the leading provider of Identity-as-a-Service. Olden is a frequent speaker in security, mobile and the cloud. Eric’s vision has been published in technical journals, including the IEEE and holds multiple patents in identity management. The Wall Street Journal, Red Herring, Always On and others have recognized Symplified as the leader in cloud identity. • Created the cloud identity market. As the 1st provider of identity as a cloud service, Olden’s vision has been realized. Gartner estimates that by 2015 40% of the massive IAM market will be delivered as a service, up from 5% in 2012. Symplified was named #1 in the Forrester Wave on cloud IAM. • Created the industry’s leading cloud identity platform. Eric led its design and pioneered the concept of the Trust Fabric® integration broker, unified policy management, identity proxy architecture, HTTP-Federation, and mobile support. Eric led the strategy for deep integration with Amazon Web Services; the Symplified Trust Cloud is available in more than 42 data centers worldwide. • Raised $38,000,000 in venture financing. Raised 4 rounds of up-round financing (from seed through Series C). • Established global distribution. Led early sales efforts and enabled strategic OEM partners to resell Symplified powered solutions. Symplified is the fastest growing cloud identity company with more than 4,000,000 licensed users. • Built a world-class team. Recruited and led an incredible team that achieves amazing things, scaling from 3 to nearly 80 people worldwide. Show less



Angel Investor

• United States
• Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals

• Venture investor

  • Sep 2001 - Apr 2006

  Silicon Valley & Boulder Colorado Angel investor in Software-as-a-Service and software infrastructure startups. Provided CEO advisory help in go-to-market, product and technology. Served on the advisory boards of Ping Identity, Identropy and Dante Group (acquired by Web Methods).



Securant Technologies

• United States

• President, CTO and Founder

  • Aug 1995 - Sep 2001

  San Francisco CA Eric founded Securant Technologies in 1995 while a student at UC Berkeley just as the world was moving to the Web and Internet computing and needed a new way to secure and manage access to apps at massive scale. As CTO, Olden led the development of Securant’s leading product in the Web Access Management (WAM) market - ClearTrust. Eric led the creation of the federation market as co-author of what became Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). • Pioneered the identity management… Show more Eric founded Securant Technologies in 1995 while a student at UC Berkeley just as the world was moving to the Web and Internet computing and needed a new way to secure and manage access to apps at massive scale. As CTO, Olden led the development of Securant’s leading product in the Web Access Management (WAM) market - ClearTrust. Eric led the creation of the federation market as co-author of what became Security Assertion Markup Language (SAML). • Pioneered the identity management market. ClearTrust was the first commercial WAM product that managed access and SSO to Web apps and was also the first user management and provisioning solution. Eric co-authored AuthXML and led an industry-wide collaborative standards effort that culminated in the creation of SAML, laying the foundation for the federated identity market. According to Forrester’s estimates, as of 2012 the identity provisioning market is $6.8B, the WAM market is ~$914M and the federation market is ~$313M. • Created the industry’s leading Web Access Management product. Securant was cited as the most innovative player in Gartner’s Magic Quadrant report on Web Access Management. ClearTrust pioneered the concept of Unified Access Management that brought together SSO, authentication, access control, auditing and user provisioning. • Sold Securant for $140,000,000 to RSA in the largest transaction in security in 2001. - Securant serves as the identity platform for RSA (now EMC). Securant successfully raised ~$37M in venture financing. • After years of lean bootstrapping, Securant took on venture capital and built out an enterprise sales team and quickly ramped revenues to a $20M run rate with several hundred enterprise customers. • Built a world-class team. Securant bootstrapped for 4 years with 26 employees and then rapidly scaled the team in 2000 to nearly 300 employees. Upon acquisition by RSA Eric decided to pursue angel investing. Show less