{"id":1034,"date":"2009-01-25T17:36:07","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T01:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=1034"},"modified":"2009-01-25T17:52:41","modified_gmt":"2009-01-26T01:52:41","slug":"more-news-about-our-identity-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.identityblog.com\/?p=1034","title":{"rendered":"More news about our identity team"},"content":{"rendered":"

After my last post, it occurred to me that\u00a0people\u00a0would probably be interested in knowing about some of the other figures from the identity community who have joined\u00a0my colleagues and I to work on identity and access \u2013 great people with diverse backgrounds who bring\u00a0new\u00a0depth to the increasingly important area of identity and access management.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I'm going to break this up across several posts in order to keep things manageable…<\/p>\n

Ariel Gordon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Ariel Gordon came to Microsoft recently from Orange \/ France Telecom.\u00a0 It's really key for the Identity group at Microsoft to have the best possible relationships with our colleagues in the Telecom sector, and Ariel's\u00a012 years of\u00a0experience and understanding of\u00a0Telecom\u00a0will move our dialog forward\u00a0tremendously.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Ariel\u00a0led the creation and deployment of Orange's consumer Identity Management system,\u00a0focusing \u00a0his staff on\u00a0optimizing customer journeys and UX through Identity lifecycles.\u00a0\u00a0The system\u00a0currently hosts tens of millions of user identities across Europe.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ariel\u00a0oversaw marketing work (and the development of business planning)\u00a0for Identity Management and other Enablers, including User Privacy and API exposition framework.\u00a0 As a key spokesperson for Orange, he unveiled several of their innovations at Industry Events including their support of OpenID and SAML for Outbound Federation at \u201cDIDW\u201d in Sept 2007, and support of OpenID and LiveID for Inbound Federation at \u201cthe European Identity Conference\u201d in April 2008.<\/p>\n

Orange\u00a0played an important role in Liberty Alliance, and Ariel has a lot to share with us about Liberty's accomplishments.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Listen to Kuppinger Cole's Felix Gaehtgens\u00a0interview Ariel on YouTube<\/a>\u00a0to get a real sense for his passion and accomplishments.<\/p>\n

Pete Rowley<\/strong><\/p>\n

Many people around\u00a0Internet Identity Workshop\u00a0know Pete Rowley, not only for the work he has done but because he has\u00a0a coolio rock-star-type\u00a0web page banner and a real stone fence:<\/p>\n

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Pete has been working on identity since the mid 90’s. He contributed to the Netscape Directory Server. Later at Centrify he worked on connecting heterogeneous systems to the Active Directory infrastructure for authentication and policy applications.\u00a0 Many of us met him at the Identity Gang meetings while he worked for Red Hat.\u00a0There he founded the Free IPA (Identity, Policy, Audit) open source project. I remember being impressed by what he was trying to achieve:<\/p>\n

“For efficiency, compliance and risk mitigation, organizations need to centrally manage and correlate vital security information including<\/p>\n