Rita Gurevich is the CEO and founder of SPHERE, a leading identity hygiene company redefining how organizations identify and remediate critical identity-related issues. Rita began her career at Lehman Brothers where she oversaw the distribution of technology assets after the organization’s bankruptcy in 2008. From this experience, Rita observed firsthand the challenges surrounding maintaining strong inventories, the implications of mismanaged access and quickly realized the need for swift and agile solutions to find and fix these types of problems. With this knowledge, Gurevich founded SPHERE, an organization that initially provided Consulting Services to help other large, complex organizations get ahead of these risks. As regulatory requirements increased and cyber-attacks became more widespread, so did the required scope of these important initiatives. In response, Rita made the important decision to build strong automation that can handle massive scale quickly and elegantly, as there were no products designed to discover and remediate these issues and bring companies to the proper levels of hygiene. The company’s transformation from a niche consulting company into an innovative Identity Hygiene company, focusing on its flagship product, SPHEREboard, has taken Rita and SPHERE to new heights. Rita has driven the growth of SPHERE through its evolution to a cutting-edge software company that solves a very important need in today’s cyber world – protecting digital identities and reducing risk across the most prominent brands in financial services, healthcare, manufacturing, energy and more. Gurevich is the recipient of multiple honors and awards including recognition from Ernst & Young for her entrepreneurial skills, SmartCEO, 40 Under 40, and many more.