Sailpoint Hires Darran Rolls as CTO
Austin-based Sailpoint Technologies announced the appointment of Darran Rolls to the position of Chief Technology Officer. Sailpoint is a technology company that is creating leading edge enterprise solutions in identity management and compliance. Sailpoint recently raised $10M in a Series B funding, and we featured them in a Q&A Wednesday segment back in November.
“Darran is a vital addition to our team at this stage in SailPoint’s growth, bringing a remarkable breadth of experience and knowledge of customer issues and technology,” said SailPoint CEO Mark McClain. “His appreciation for the dynamics that drive market acceptance of new technologies ensure SailPoint will maintain the pace of innovation required to continue leading the market with its identity risk management software.”
Darran has 20 years of experience in security and identity, and has lived in Austin for the past 12 years. Most recently he has been consulting on identity and security strategy with clients such as AMD and the Department of Defense. He worked with Sailpoint CEO Mark McClain and many other key Sailpoint employees at Austin startup WaveSet, which was sold to Sun Microsystems at the end of 2003. An acquisition brought him from the UK to Austin to work for Tivoli 12 years ago, at the begining of Austin’s tech boom.
On the personal side Darran is an avid windsurfer, having windsurfed all over the globe and competing at the U.S. Nationals. “Of all the places I’ve windsurfed, my favorite spot is a remote fjord off the west coast of Vancouver Island only known to locals” he told us. “It’s the most unbelievable place you can imagine.”
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