Eric Olden is the Founder, CEO and Chairman of Symplified. Eric is a widely respected thought leader in identity management and the visionary behind Symplified's strategy of building an on-demand Trust Fabric™® that secures and facilitates adoption of the cloud. Eric is the chief designer of the SinglePoint platform, Symplified's identity services and The Trust Cloud on Amazon. Eric's vision is to enable ubiquitous identity that enables all organizations, from the Fortune 500 to the SMB, to realize the potential of the cloud. Symplified, was founded on the belief that in order to reach cloud-scale, identity must be made simple and be delivered as a utility service, and Eric has relentlessly pursued that goal since starting the company in 2007.

Olden's career in identity management began in 1995 when he founded Securant Technologies in San Francisco. Securant was a great success, scaling from two guys and an idea to nearly 300 employees and hundreds of enterprise customers before its $140 million acquisition by RSA. As CTO of Securant, Eric pioneered the market for Web Access Management and User Provisioning with the industry leading ClearTrust product. A staunch believer in standards, Eric co-authored AuthXML with Darren Platt and negotiated its combination with Netegrity's S2ML to create Oasis' SAML standard. Eric has been published in several technical journals and is a regular speaker at industry events. He was awarded US Patent #6,460,141 for his pioneering designs for web identity. Eric is a graduate of the University of California at Berkeley.

Darren Platt was Securant's first Vice President of Engineering, joining in 1996. Darren managed the first three 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, Platt joined Ping Identity as one of its first three 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.

Jonti 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 $1 billion category.

McLaren gained comprehensive exposure and thorough operations experience as he was responsible for directly managing every department at one time or another during his tenure. Jonti was instrumental in the success of Securant, which became a leader in its category with almost 300 employees and hundreds of enterprise customers. At Securant, Jonti raised approximately $35 million over three financing rounds before the successful acquisition by RSA in 2001 for $140 million.

Andrew Evans brings more than 20 years of financial management experience to Symplified, including 15 years working with venture-backed technology firms. His broad range of industry experience includes managing finance, operations, sales, legal, human resources and administration functions. At FTEN, a provider of hosted financial securities risk-management services, Evans oversaw management of the company's delivery infrastructure. He has raised over $110 million in equity and debt for technology companies at various stages of development from seed funding through private placements.

Evans' two most recent companies achieved rapid growth and successful exits. Brand monitoring firm Umbria was acquired by McGraw-Hill/JDPower in 2008, while FTEN was purchased by NASDAQ OMX in 2010. Andrew began his career at KPMG in London and Sydney after graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemical Engineering from Birmingham University.

Jay 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 led Hart's GeoSpatial development and professional services teams. As Director of Engineering at Crosswalk, Jay led 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 led 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.

Jason 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, Jason helped grow the start-up’s customer base to more than 300 enterprises worldwide in less than two years until the company's acquisition by RSA Security. Merrick holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Accounting from the University of San Francisco.

Josh Forman brings more than 17 years operational IT experience to Symplified from his history at Wild Oats and Accenture. Between Accenture and Wild Oats, a $1billion mid-market leader in organic foods, Josh oversaw strategic projects including: mainframe to Unix conversion, PCI Audit and Compliance, IT governance and data warehousing.

At Symplified, Forman is responsible for ensuring service delivery and the day-to-day success of our customers. For the last five years at Symplified, Josh consults with customers and speaks around the country on how organizations utilize identity-management solutions to improve security, enhance the end-user experience, and meet compliance requirements. Josh holds a physics degree from the 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.