Marco Venuti is the Business Acceleration Director for Identity and Access Management at Thales. Marco has 20+ years of experience in Identity and Security, having worked for multiple solution vendors in Sales and Product Management roles. Before Thales, he served as VP of Product Management at OneWelcome and as CTO for Identity Governance solutions at IBM. Marco joined IBM with the acquisition of CrossIdeas, an Identity Governance vendor that he co-founded in 2011. He holds a degree in Electronics Engineering from the University of Bologna, Italy. Marco is a charismatic thought leader and has shared his insights and innovative solutions at prestigious conferences including Gartner IAM, Identity Week and Kuppingercole.