» Proven success with Web security start-ups, creating new markets and successfully selling into those early markets.
» Track record of breakthrough technology and market leading products.
» Combined 50-plus years of enterprise security and systems management experience in mission critical deployments.
» Proven thought leaders in Web identity, access management, federation and SaaS technology.
» The Symplified team has created significant shareholder equity and successful M&A.

Eric Olden Founder, CEO and Chairman

Olden co-founded Securant with Jonti McLaren and was its President from 1995-1999. Eric became CTO and CMO from 2000-2001. Olden was instrumental in raising 3 rounds of financing totaling $35M. At Securant, Eric was the company's visionary and managed its products from inception until the company was acquired by RSA. Eric received extensive field sales experience through hundreds of field sales and technical presentations. He was awarded US Patent #6,460,141 for his pioneering designs for Web identity.

Olden led Securant's technology strategy and co-authored AuthXML with Darren Platt and negotiated its combination with Netegrity's S2ML to create Oasis' SAML standard. As CMO, Olden managed relations with analysts and press and was responsible for establishing ClearTrust's reputation as technology leader in the market. Olden was responsible for field marketing and rapidly built a marketing pipeline on a shoestring budget. Eric was instrumental in the M&A process with RSA, ensuring a smooth closing of the acquisition.

Jonti McLaren Founder, COO & President

McLaren co-founded Securant with Eric Olden and was its CEO from 1995-1999 and its President from 2000-2001. At Securant, Jonti was responsible for corporate strategy with an emphasis on managing Securant’s rapid growth and field operations. Jonti transformed Securant from a professional services oriented company to a product focused enterprise software company establishing a new security segment, Web Access Management (WAM), which is now a $1B category. Furthermore, Jonti gained comprehensive exposure and thorough operations experience as he was responsible for directly managing every department at one time or another during his tenure. McLaren was instrumental in raising $35M in financing in 3 rounds and completing the successful sale of Securant to RSA in 2001.

After selling Securant, Jonti became an angel investor and has been actively performing due diligence on many technology start-ups.

Darren Platt Founder & CTO

Platt was Securant's 1st VP of Engineering joining in 1996. Darren managed the first 3 releases of ClearTrust through 2000. He grew the engineering team to 40 people under tight bootstrap budgets in the hyper-competitive dot-com hiring boom. Darren co-authored AuthXML and represented Securant on the standards bodies. With the sale of Securant, Darren managed the transition of ClearTrust into RSA's product portfolio and continued to represent RSA on the standards bodies.

In 2002, Darren joined Ping Identity as one of its 1st 3 employees leading Ping's technology strategy and its transition into enterprise software. At Ping, Darren was given product, development and team management responsibility for Ping's conformance services and led the entire lifecycle of Ping's SOA security product, PingTrust.

Mike Corbisiero VP of Worldwide Sales

Corbisiero brings over twenty-five years of proven Sales and Executive Management experience to Symplified.  At AmberPoint he built out the world wide sales organization and grew revenues from inception to their dominate industry leadership position.  This success led to the recent sale of the company to Oracle.  During his tenure at AmberPoint, his success enabled the company to secure multiple strategic rounds of funding for over $50M.  Prior to AmberPoint, he established the Rocky Mountain and North American Telecommunication’s field sales teams at both Forte and iPlanet.  The revenue growth achieved at Forte led to the purchase of Forte by SUN for over $235M in 2000.   
 
Corbisiero holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Notre Dame. He is also a member of the Irish Angles providing mentoring and assistance to  student start-up opportunities.

Josh Forman VP of Customer Success

Forman brings more than 12 years of first-hand operational experience to Symplified from his history at Wild Oats and Accenture. At Wild Oats, a $1B midmarket leader in organic foods with over 110 locations nationwide, Josh led PCI Audit and Compliance, EDI enablement, IT governance and data warehousing. Josh brings a midmarket view of IT, including implementation and operations as well as 'buy side' perspective.

At Symplified, Forman is responsible for the day-to-day success and satisfaction of our customers. Forman manages Symplified's first-class support and services, technical operations and professional services. Josh is Symplified's primary resource providing customers with executive advocacy. Josh is a graduate of University of California Santa Barbara and received his masters from Regis University. Josh is also a Director of a Boulder based non-profit and represents Symplified on the board of the Entrepreneur’s Foundation of Colorado.

Jason Merrick VP of Business Development

Merrick brings more than 15 years of enterprise identity management and security experience to Symplified. He has played a pivotal role with several successful start-up security technology vendors including Securant Technologies (now RSA Security), Teros (now Citrix) and Air Tight Networks. Merrick is responsible for building and managing vendor partnerships for Symplified’s SinglePoint Network – the industry’s first open identity and security ecosystem that connects Software as a Service (SaaS) applications, cloud computing systems and enterprise networks.

Merrick joins Symplified from Air Tight Networks, a vendor of wireless vulnerability management solutions, where he was vice president of worldwide technical sales and managed strategic partner relationships with Extreme Networks, 3COM, Siemens and Trustwave. Previously he held senior technical services management positions at Teros, a vendor of web application firewalls acquired by Citrix. With identity management pioneer Securant Technologies, Merrick helped grow the start-ups’ customer base to more than 300 enterprises worldwide in less than 2 years until the company’s acquisition by RSA Security. Merrick holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting from the University of San Francisco.

Jay Wallingford VP Engineering

Wallingford brings more than 20 years of technology leadership experience to Symplified. He joined Symplified in 2008 as one of the first members of the Symplified technical team and has played a key role in the design and development of Symplified's Singlepoint product including the HTTP Federation, virtual user store and access control technologies.  Currently he leads Symplified's engineering, quality assurance and operations teams.

Before joining the Symplified team, Wallingford served as Director of Development for Hart Intercivic, where he lead Hart's GeoSpatial development and professional services teams. As Director of Engineering at Crosswalk, Wallingford lead a team responsible for the development of Crosswalk's networked storage discovery and clustered storage software. Prior to Crosswalk, he served as Chief Technology Officer at Leopard (now part of Ogilvy), where he lead the development, support and operations teams responsible for the development and delivery of Leopard's marketing management Saas offering. 

Before Leopard, he served as software architect and consultant at Bolder Heuristics a technology consultancy that provided software architecture, development and consulting services to startups and venture capital firms.