Gerry Gebel

About:

Gerry Gebel is the VP of Products and Standards at Strata Identity, where he oversees the product management team and defines the product vision, strategy, and roadmap. He is a recognized leader in cloud identity and access management, having provided requirements definitions, architecture development, and strategic planning for identity management projects with Fortune 500 corporations for over 20 years.

Gerry works tirelessly to promote industry standards in identity. He leads the effort with the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) to develop Identity Query Language (IDQL), a policy orchestration standard, and the Hexa open-source project. https://hexaorchestration.org/. He also co-chairs the OpenID Foundation’s AuthZEN (https://openid.net/wg/authzen/) working group, working to standardize authorization systems. He has authored research reports on identity standards, including SAML, WS-Federation, XACML, and Liberty Alliance.

Gerry joined Strata from Axiomatics, a global provider of access control solutions, where he served as vice president of business development. Previously, he was Vice President & Service Director with identity-focused research firm Burton Group (acquired by Gartner) for nearly 10 years, covering topics such as authentication, biometrics, federated identity, PKI architecture, identity management, policy-based controls, user provisioning, privacy, directory services, and security architecture. Gerry also worked as a Senior Consultant with Burton Group, assisting Fortune 500 corporations in implementing large-scale identity management projects. He began his career in the technology group at JPMorgan Chase Bank.

Specialization:

Gerry utilizes his knowledge of IAM technology and working with groups that have divergent priorities to derive optimal outcomes for internal teams, customers and standards committees.

Education:

Rutgers University 

Accomplishments

• Covered identity and access management industry for a decade as VP and Service Director for analyst firm Burton Group (now Gartner)
• Vice President at authorization software firm Axiomatics, where he served in several roles, including opening US operations, business development, and strategic planning.
• VP, Middleware Technology Manager for Chase Manhattan Bank (now part of JPMorgan Chase)
• Member OASIS Security Standards
• Recognized expert and frequent speaker on identity management topics at national security conferences and events.