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The people behind C1's writing on identity security, access governance, and AI agents — security leaders, engineers, and product teams.

  • Claire McKenna

    Director of Corporate Marketing

    Claire McKenna is Director of Corporate Marketing at C1 and writes much of the practical guidance published here, from third-party access management and the joiner-mover-leaver lifecycle to running an IAM risk assessment.

    75 articles

  • Alex Bovee

    CEO

    Alex Bovee is co-founder and CEO of C1. Prior to C1, Alex was a product leader at Okta, where he led Zero Trust and security products and oversaw the launch of several new products. He's energized by beautiful, effortless product experiences, making customers smile, and playing guitar and backup vocals in his family band.

    38 articles

  • Brittany Smail

    Group Product Marketing Manager

    Brittany Smail is Group Product Marketing Manager at C1, covering identity governance and the compliance regimes that depend on it. Recent writing spans CMMC, lightweight IGA, and what ships in each C1 release.

    24 articles

  • Paul Querna

    Co-Founder and CTO

    Paul Querna is co-founder and CTO of C1. He previously co-founded ScaleFT, the Zero Trust networking company acquired by Okta, which is where he and Alex Bovee first met. He writes about identity architecture, open source, and the security implications of agentic AI.

    17 articles

  • Kevin Paige

    Field CISO

    Kevin Paige is the Field CISO at C1, where he advises organizations on modern identity security, cybersecurity strategy, and aligning security programs with business outcomes. With more than 30 years of technology and security leadership across the private and public sectors, Kevin has served as CISO at Flexport and MuleSoft, helping lead MuleSoft through its acquisition by Salesforce. He is also an investor at Silicon Valley CISO Investments and a venture advisor at Glilot Capital Partners.

    15 articles

  • Marissa Endres

    Head of Product Marketing

    Marissa Endres is Head of Product Marketing at C1, writing about what C1 ships and the problems behind it, including identity lifecycle management, access requests, and conditional access policies.

    10 articles

  • Melody Scheidler

    Director of Product Marketing

    Melody Scheidler is Director of Product Marketing at C1, focused on the company's AI and agent products. Launches covered here include Agentic Vault, shadow AI discovery, and the C1 Autonomous Worker.

    9 articles

  • Ishaan Banta

    Marketing Content Manager

    Ishaan Banta is a Marketing Content Manager at C1, writing about identity security practice and the standards teams get measured against, from the SSO tax to NIST CSF 2.0.

    8 articles

  • Kate Cheney

    Growth Marketer

    Kate Cheney is a Growth Marketer at C1, covering product launches, webinars, and conversations with security practitioners at companies like Ramp.

    4 articles

  • Logan Saso

    Staff Software Engineer

    Logan Saso is a Staff Software Engineer at C1, writing on the engineering blog about databases and performance — Postgres query planning, DynamoDB throughput — and about the internal tooling C1 builds for itself.

    4 articles

  • Ali Falahi

    Solutions Engineer

    Ali Falahi is a Solutions Engineer at C1, writing about the distance between a security control on paper and how it actually gets rolled out, including passwordless programs and credential handling during onboarding.

    3 articles

  • Greg Howard

    VP of Marketing

    Greg Howard is VP of Marketing at C1, writing about the identity governance market and the regulation shaping it, including the NIS2 Directive.

    3 articles

  • Maarten Buis

    Principal Product Marketing Manager

    Maarten Buis is a Principal Product Marketing Manager at C1, covering agent runtime governance, agentic security intelligence, and C1 Bridge.

    3 articles

  • Robert Chiniquy

    Staff Software Engineer

    Robert Chiniquy is a Staff Software Engineer at C1, writing on the engineering blog about formal methods and authorization, including the work of formally verifying C1's identity connectors.

    3 articles

  • Tyrah Hicks

    Marketing Communications Specialist

    Tyrah Hicks is a Marketing Communications Specialist at C1, writing explainers on the protocols behind enterprise access, including SAML, OAuth, and MCP authorization.

    3 articles

  • Will Bengtson

    CISO

    Will Bengtson is the Chief Information Security Officer at C1, leading the company's security strategy as identity becomes the control plane for the agentic enterprise. He brings over two decades of experience securing cloud platforms, identity systems, and developer infrastructure at global scale. Prior to C1, Will was VP of Platform and Security Engineering at HashiCorp and held senior security and engineering roles at Netflix, Capital One, and Nuna.

    3 articles

  • Chayce O'Neal

    Head of IT

    Chayce O'Neal is Head of IT at C1, writing from the practitioner's side of the problem about SaaS sprawl and just-in-time access.

    2 articles

  • Erin Duncan

    Director of Product Marketing

    Erin Duncan is a Director of Product Marketing at C1 and writes the monthly product update roundups.

    2 articles

  • Jess Starr

    Product Manager, AI Access Management

    Jess Starr is a Product Manager for AI Access Management at C1, writing about agent authorization and why AI transformation programs stall.

    2 articles

  • Justin Gallardo

    Principal Software Engineer

    Justin Gallardo is a Principal Software Engineer at C1, writing about building guardrails into AI agents and managing identity for SQL-backed applications.

    2 articles

  • Marcus Whitaker

    Senior Technical Account Manager

    Marcus Whitaker is a Senior Technical Account Manager at C1, writing about getting real security value out of user access reviews and grant-triggered automation.

    2 articles

  • Mindy Moreland

    Content Designer

    Mindy Moreland is a Content Designer at C1 and writes the What's New roundups covering each batch of product updates.

    2 articles

  • Blake Haggerty

    Head of Talent and People Operations

    Blake Haggerty is Head of Talent and People Operations at C1, writing about how C1 hires and what it took to rebuild the recruiting stack.

    1 article

  • Chinmay Kulkarni

    Staff Software Engineer

    Chinmay Kulkarni is a Staff Software Engineer at C1, writing about how C1 works under the hood, including SLA escalation policies.

    1 article

  • Chuck Fontana

    VP of Corporate and Business Development

    Chuck Fontana is VP of Corporate and Business Development at C1, writing about the partnerships and integrations C1 builds with the rest of the ecosystem.

    1 article

  • John Degner

    Software Engineer

    John Degner is a Software Engineer at C1, writing about Baton, C1's open source toolkit for auditing infrastructure access.

    1 article

  • Jonah Peterson

    Technical Account Manager

    Jonah Peterson is a Technical Account Manager at C1, writing about how C1's customer-first support model works in practice.

    1 article

  • Julián González

    Staff Software Engineer

    Julián González is a Staff Software Engineer at C1, writing on the engineering blog about infrastructure and security architecture, including connection authentication for C1 Bridge.

    1 article

  • Mae Cadao

    Head of Demand Generation

    Mae Cadao is Head of Demand Generation at C1, covering C1's presence at industry events including Black Hat.

    1 article

  • Mallory Surpless

    Head of Customer Success

    Mallory Surpless is Head of Customer Success at C1, writing about onboarding and automated account provisioning.

    1 article

  • Samira Kahangi

    Marketing Content Manager

    Samira Kahangi is a Marketing Content Manager at C1, writing about least privilege access and how C1 works alongside identity providers like Okta.

    1 article

  • Saravana Venkatesan

    Software Engineer

    Saravana Venkatesan is a Software Engineer at C1, writing on the engineering blog about the architecture of C1's AI agentic engine.

    1 article

  • Sathyanarayanan Saravanamuthu

    Staff Software Engineer

    Sathyanarayanan Saravanamuthu is a Staff Software Engineer at C1, writing on the engineering blog about AI infrastructure, including halving C1's embedding costs and storage footprint.

    1 article

  • Shanelle Rucker

    Demand Generation Manager

    Shanelle Rucker is a Demand Generation Manager at C1, writing practical compliance guidance including SOC 2 readiness.

    1 article

  • Shruti Banda

    Lead Product Manager

    Shruti Banda is a Lead Product Manager at C1, covering hybrid infrastructure support.

    1 article