Company
Our Mission
Empowering all people and businesses to securely, privately, and effortlessly control their digital identities.
Only trust yourself.
Our Core Values
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Customers First
Customers are our cornerstone; ensuring they are operational and happy is our top priority. We base every decision on how well it serves our customers.
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Trust and Integrity
Great solutions can come from anyone. We build trust through openness, honesty, and personal accountability.
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Blameless and Empathetic Collaboration
Teamwork is paramount to our success. We thrive in a blameless culture that holds each other accountable while maintaining empathy and humility.
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Diversity and Authenticity
We bring our authentic selves to work every day. We strive to improve the diverse communities in which we work and live.
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Foster the Unconventional
We create an inclusive and safe environment where everyone can think big, have fun, and do good.
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Continuous Improvement
Tomorrow’s innovation is born from today’s curiosity. We are relentlessly curious and innovate by learning from others and sharing our experiences.
Executive Team
Jim Clark
Chairman and Co-Founder
Jim Clark
Chairman and Co-Founder
Jim Clark is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist. He has founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Inc., Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO, Healtheon, Applied DNA Sciences, CommandScape, and Beyond Identity. Jim earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in physics from The University of New Orleans, and a PhD in computer science from The University of Utah.
Jasson Casey
CEO
Jasson Casey, PhD
Chief Executive Officer
Jasson has served as CTO of SecurityScorecard, VP of Engineering at IronNet Cybersecurity, Founder and Executive Director of Flowgrammable as well as Compiled Networks, VP of VoIP Product Development at CenturyTel, among other technical and executive roles. Jasson received a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and a PhD in computer engineering from Texas A&M University.
Kurt Johnson
Chief Strategy Officer
Kurt Johnson
Chief Strategy Officer
As Chief Strategy Officer and head of Corporate Development Kurt heads up Beyond Identity’s strategic growth initiatives, technology alliances, and strategic partnerships. Previously Kurt was VP of Strategic Partnerships for GreatHorn, GM of Emerging Products and Head of Alliances for FastPay, SVP Marketing & Corporate Development at AnchorOps, VP of Strategy & Corporate Development for Courion Corporation, and was an industry analyst with META Group (acquired by Gartner) and IDC. Kurt currently serves on the Board of Cambridge Savings Bank and holds a BS degree from Boston College.
Bill Hogan
Chief Revenue Officer
Bill Hogan
Chief Revenue Officer
Bill is a seasoned executive with a proven track record leading high-performing teams solving enterprise class problems. He most recently served as Chief Revenue Officer at Security Scorecard. Prior to that he ran Global Financials and Strategic Accounts at Fortinet after serving as President and Chief Revenue Officer at Webhouse, Inc. Bill spent 10 years at NetApp as VP of Global Accounts, Financial and America’s Enterprise during tenure. At HP, Bill served as its GM of Storage Virtualization Systems Group, after its acquisition of StorageApps where he served as VP of Sales. He serves in advisory capacity for A2C, Inc, SaferPass, WekaIO, Sales Community and Top One Percenter.
Patrick McBride
Chief Marketing Officer
Patrick McBride
Chief Marketing Officer
Patrick has served as CMO of ZeroFOX and Claroty, as VP of Marketing at iSIGHT Partners and Xceedium, VP of Compliance at Scalable Software, Co-founder and CEO of META Security Group, and Senior Vice President at META Group. Patrick received a bachelor’s degree in management from Keene State College in New Hampshire.
Ashwin Rana
Chief Solutions Architect
Ashwin Rana
Chief Solutions Architect
Ashwin has served as Chief Technical Architect at Zscaler, Director of Product Management at Nokia Networks, Senior Director of System Architecture and Product Management at AudioCodes, Inc., Director of Product Management at Netrake, among others. Ashwin received a bachelor’s degree in electrical and electronics engineering from Sardar Patel University and a master’s degree in electrical, electronics, and communications engineering from The University of Texas at Dallas.
Leadership Team
Bob Burke
VP, Security and Infrastructure
Lili Weng
VP, Finance
Augustine Eosso
VP, Commercial Sales
Susanne Gurman
VP, Revenue Marketing
Husnain Bajwa
VP, Product Strategy
Pia McSharry
VP, Global Sales Engineering
Joy Chen
VP, Growth
Nick Matviko
VP, Engineering
Chris Cummings
VP, Product Marketing
Jonathan Shapira
VP, General Counsel
Dylan Press
Director, Global Integrated Marketing
Diversity and Authenticity
One of Beyond Identity’s Core Values is Diversity and Authenticity. Beyond Identity is committed to developing a program of initiatives and culture that ensure we are growing a diverse, inclusive, and belonging employee population and bringing those employees together to build a connected, innovative, and inclusive company.
Diversity and Authenticity is about more than creating an environment with people from different backgrounds — it's also encouraging diversity of thought and learning how we can empower and encourage employees to share ideas, participate in initiatives for positive change, and make meaningful contributions.
Our Company Story
Beyond Identity is the first and only company to provide passwordless identity management. The Beyond Identity team is composed of cybersecurity and identity management professionals who are passionate about restoring digital trust and building a fundamentally secure way to authenticate and authorize users while protecting privacy.
Two and a half decades ago, our founders, Jim Clark and Tom Jermoluk, made the World Wide Web accessible to all and ready for business – Jim with the release of the Netscape browser and SSL for secure Internet transactions, and Tom with large-scale home broadband access with @Home Network. However, as businesses, governments, and individuals increasingly relied on the Internet, bad actors eroded trust, stole intellectual property, and pilfered funds.
With hundreds of billions of passwords in the world today, we continue to rely on this fundamentally insecure authentication model. Passwords are insecure because these “shared secrets” transit networks, are stored insecurely in databases, are shared among friends and family, and are reused across multiple apps. In fact, the Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report estimates that 81% of hacking-related breaches are the direct result of stolen credentials.
“Beyond Identity’s patented solution is based on proven technology that enables our customer to go beyond passwordless authentication to complete passwordless identity management.”
Alternate methods of authentication, such as password managers and multi-factor authentication, exist, but each of these methods has their pitfalls, and they don’t solve the root “shared secret” problem. Beyond Identity’s patented solution employs self-signed X.509 certificates on endpoint devices to fundamentally change the way users log in to the network. It extends the server-to-server chain of trust established with TLS to users and their devices. It is a fundamentally secure model, based on proven technology that enables our customer to go beyond passwordless authentication to complete passwordless identity management.
The company is funded by New Enterprise Associates (NEA), the legendary Silicon Valley venture capital firm, and Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT), the investment arm of one of the largest private companies in the United States.
Our Investors
Board of Directors
Jim Clark
Chairman and Co-Founder
Jim Clark
Chairman and Co-Founder
Jim Clark is an American entrepreneur and computer scientist. He has founded several notable Silicon Valley technology companies, including Silicon Graphics, Inc., Netscape Communications Corporation, myCFO, Healtheon, Applied DNA Sciences, CommandScape, and Beyond Identity. Jim earned both a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in physics from The University of New Orleans, and a PhD in computer science from The University of Utah.
Thomas Jermoluk
Co-Founder
Tom Jermoluk
Co-Founder
A longtime collaborator with Jim, TJ has served as President and COO of Silicon Graphics, Inc., Founding Chairman and CEO of @Home Network, General Partner at Kleiner Perkins, CEO of Hyperion Development Group, and founded nine companies, including Beyond Identity, HiCMOS, AOptix, and SmartPipes. TJ attended Virginia Tech.
Hilarie Koplow-McAdams
Venture Partner, NEA
Hilarie Koplow-McAdams
Venture Partner, NEA
An enterprise software veteran, Hilarie has spent the past three decades at growth-stage technology companies in operating and board roles. More recently, Hilarie served as President at New Relic as well as at Salesforce, and was Vice President of Direct Sales for small business and a member of the executive committee at Intuit. Hilarie started her career at Oracle Corporation where she held a variety of roles over the course of 18 years, including Senior Vice President of Oracle Direct. Hilarie currently serves on the board of directors of BloomReach, DataRobot, HackerOne, Knotch, and Zendesk Corporation, among others. She holds a master’s degree in public policy from The University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree from Mills College.
Forest Baskett
General Partner, NEA
Forest Baskett
General Partner, NEA
Forest joined NEA (New Enterprise Associates) in 1999 as a Venture Partner and became a General Partner in 2004. Forest focuses on information technology investments and serves on the Board of Directors for several private and public companies. Some of his investments that became public companies include Atheros Communications, Audience, Data Domain, Fusion-io, and Tableau Software. Prior to NEA, Forest served as Senior Vice President of R&D and Chief Technology Officer of Silicon Graphics Inc. Forest founded and directed the Western Research Laboratory of Digital Equipment Corporation before joining SGI. Prior to that, Forest was a Professor of Computer Science and Electrical Engineering at Stanford University. Forest received a Bachelor of Mathematics from Rice University and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Austin. Forest is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.
Byron Knight
Managing Director, KDT
Byron Knight
Managing Director, Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT)
Byron is responsible for originating and investing in disruptive growth stage companies as well as connecting entrepreneurs to Koch’s businesses and capabilities where mutual benefit exists. Since joining KDT, Byron has led deals and has sat on the boards of several portfolio companies including Desktop Metal, Ibotta, Outrider, Trackonomy, Automox, and Beyond Identity. Prior to KDT, Byron served as Vice President of eCommerce for the North America Consumer Business at Georgia-Pacific. Prior to that, Byron helped start TechDiscovery, a company focused on technical due diligence and custom software development. Byron holds a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from Georgia Institute of Technology.
Taher Elgamal
"Father of SSL," Marconi Prize Winner 2019
Taher Elgamal, PhD
Dr. Taher Elgamal is an internationally respected information security leader and cryptographer. Dr. Elgamal was the recipient of the lifetime achievement award from RSA Conference in 2009. Dr. Elgamal has successfully served as CISO, Chief Scientist, CTO, as well as founder and CEO of numerous key organizations. Dr. Elgamal invented several industry and government standards in data security and digital signatures for areas including the DSS government standard for digital signatures. Dr. Elgamal is recognized in the industry as the “father” of SSL.
Technical Advisory Board
Marty Hellman
Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, Turing and Marconi Award Winner
Marty Hellman, PhD
Marty Hellman is an American cryptologist, best known for his invention of public key cryptography in cooperation with Whitfield Diffie and Ralph Merkle. Marty serves as professor emeritus at Stanford University, and has received numerous awards and honors, including the Turing Award, considered the most prestigious award in the field of computer science, for 2015, together with Whitfield Diffie.
Jarrod Benson
CISO, Koch Business Solutions
Jarrod Benson
CIO, Koch Business Solutions, LP and Global CISO, Koch Industries
Jarrod Benson is responsible for the information security strategy, operations, and cyber-risk for Koch Industries and its subsidiaries. Additionally, Jarrod serves as the CIO of Koch Business Solutions, LP (KBS), where he provides leadership, planning and strategy for Koch's global shared services organization. Jarrod has held multiple leadership positions in information technology at Koch. Based in Wichita, KS, Koch Industries, Inc. is one of the largest private companies in America with estimated annual revenues as high as $115 billion, according to Forbes. It owns a diverse group of companies involved in refining, chemicals, and biofuels; forest and consumer products; fertilizers; polymers and fibers; process and pollution control equipment and technologies; electronics; information systems; commodity trading; minerals; energy; glass; ranching; and investments.
Timothy L. Callahan
CSO, Aflac
Timothy L. Callahan, CISSP, CISM, CRISC
Senior Vice President, Global Security; Chief Security Officer
Tim Callahan joined Aflac in 2014, bringing more than 30 years of experience in information and physical security, business resiliency, and risk management. Tim was promoted to his current role in January 2016, where he is responsible for directing Aflac’s global security strategy and leading the information security, business continuity, and disaster recovery functions across the company to prioritize security initiatives and allocate resources based on appropriate risk assessments.
Prior to joining Aflac, Tim served as Senior Vice President of Business Continuity and Information Assurance for SunTrust Banks, Inc. Tim also held leadership positions at People’s United Bank.
Tim served in the U.S. Air Force for 23 years and earned an associate’s degree from the Community College of the Air Force and a bachelor’s degree from the University of the State of New York, Albany.
Marcos Christodonte II
Global CISO, CDW
Marcos Christodonte II
Global CISO, CDW
Marcos Christodonte II is the Global Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at CDW. Marcos has held a series of CISO and global security leadership roles across a number of industries including federal government, financial services, management consulting, academia, and high growth technology. His diverse perspectives are rooted in his experiences at companies such as Gartner, Bridgewater Associates, Booz Allen Hamilton, NATO, and U.S. Army. Marcos also advises cybersecurity startups on product strategy, direction, and security use cases—ensuring alignment with the current and emerging challenges of CISOs across industries and geographies. Marcos is a cybersecurity enthusiast; when not working and spending time with his family he mentors aspiring CISOs on career development.
Mario Duarte
VP of Security, Snowflake
Mario Duarte
VP of Security, Snowflake
Mario Duarte is a veteran security professional who has worked in the retail, health care and financial sectors for two decades. He has built and managed security teams, developed and implemented security programs and has managed PCI and HIPAA compliance initiatives for medium and large organizations.
Eric Mann
Eric Mann
An innovative sales executive with over 30 years of experience across multiple market- leading technology companies ranging from startups to large corporations. A proven track record of developing high-impact organizations and new growth initiatives emphasizing productivity, margin improvement, and share gains. Eric’s diverse background includes management of direct/indirect sales teams, distribution, OEM, system integrators, cloud, and service provider organizations.
Most recently, Eric served as EVP of Sales, Marketing, and Corporate Development at Mainline Information Systems, where he tripled the profitability over 5 years. Before that, he was COO at Varonis Systems, rapidly scaling the cybersecurity business and tripling their market cap to over $1B. Additionally, Eric has served as SVP of Americas Sales at NetApp, leading a multi-billion-dollar business and doubling America’s sales revenue. He also spent 12 years at EMC Corporation from Account Executive to SVP Sales driving Hyper-Growth from 100M to 10B.
Eric is a graduate of Queens College with a degree in Computer Science. He has sponsored the South-East Consortium for Special Services, Inc. (SEC), a not-for-profit community-based organization dedicated to providing therapeutic recreation programs for children and adults with special needs.