About Clear Skye

John Milburn is Clear Skye’s chief executive officer. On the pursuit to drive Clear Skye’s vision into reality, John is dedicated to closing the value gap that has existed in the IGA market for the last 20 years.

With 25-plus years of enterprise software experience, John brings to the table a plethora of knowledge with a focus on security and identity management. Before joining Clear Skye, John held executive roles at renowned organizations, such as Quest Software, Dell and most recently One Identity.

John holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Southern Methodist University, and a Master of Science degree in Information Sciences from the University of Texas.

TJ Gryziec is Clear Skye’s Chief Product Officer. He is a lifelong technologist who started creating applications at age 12. Since then he has created over 50 business applications, two of which he won Innovation of the Year (2012) and CreatorCon Challenge (2017) awards for.

His passion for using technology to solve problems and help others first appeared when achieving his Eagle Scout rank and has continued ever since. His responsibilities as CTO include driving product roadmap and development to align with customer challenges.

In his spare time TJ likes to play video games and plot taking over the world……

Vahan is Clear Skye’s co-founder and Chief Operating Officer. His vision is to simplify compliance and security programs for modern enterprises – making it easy and painless for all. With 25 years of information technology and security experience, Vahan has always had passion for technology, business, and helping others succeed.

Vahan holds a CISSP certification, is actively involved in information security community and serves on the board of (ISC)² San Francisco Chapter.

Luis has been helping customers solve Identity and Access Management challenges for 17 of the 25 years he has been in sales.

Prior to joining Clear Skye, Luis served as VP of Sales and Business development at Identropy, a leading IAM consulting services firm where he helped hundreds of clients develop successful IAM programs. Prior to Identropy, Luis held IAM sales roles at CA, Quest Software and Dell.

Luis is a native of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and has made his home in Miami with his wife of 25 years, son and two daughters. When not helping customers with identity challenges, he will more than likely be found on his flats boat somewhere in Biscayne Bay National Park.

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Passionate about the employee experience, Jen brings over 20 years of HR management experience. She has a strong history of strategic partnership and tactical direction on Employee Engagement, Leadership Development and Organizational Effectiveness. Prior to joining Clear Skye Jen held HR leadership positions at Quest Software, Dell, One Identity, and most recently at Netwrix. Jen holds a BA Honors degree, a Postgraduate Diploma in HR Management and is a Chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).

Jackson began his identity management career as an early employee at Toronto-based Zoomit Corp., the pioneer in the development of meta-directory products who Microsoft acquired in 1999. While at Microsoft, he was responsible for product planning and marketing around Microsoft’s identity & access management products including Active Directory and Microsoft Identity Manager. Jackson has held various senior product management and marketing roles since Microsoft including at Vintela, Quest Software, Dell, One Identity, and Forcepoint. He studied computer science at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Paul Walker is a subject matter expert specializing in the field of Identity and Access Management (IAM).

Graduating with a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science in 1995 Paul held a variety of international leadership positions in technical sales and product positions for Sun Microsystems, Oracle, Quest, DELL, and One Identity. Paul's been a regular speaker at industry events such as Gartner IAM , KuppingerCole EIC and participates in regular analyst relations.

Paul's passionate about leading edge technology and helping customers achieve their digital goals through the successful adoption of IAM.

Paul lives in the United Kingdom and spends his spare time mountain biking, skiing and enjoying time with his family but not necessarily in that order.

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Matt Westland has over 15 years experience in the Identity Management industry and has developed a deep expertise in helping organizations gain the maximum value out of their identity management programs. As Vice President, EMEA, Matt is responsible for driving Clear Skye’s growth in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He is also tasked with developing and retaining talent, driving customer success, and increasing Clear Skye’s brand awareness and unique approach to IGA in the region.

Jarod is a ServiceNow Developer MVP who specializes in custom application development, platform security (Edge Encryption), and integrations. He holds a variety of certifications in ServiceNow and IT security (CISSP), a master’s degree in Management and a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration.Since 2013, Jarod has been responsible for the ServiceNow platform in a variety of roles for both ServiceNow customers and ServiceNow partners. He is active in the ServiceNow community, and you can find him on online as a moderator in the SNDevs Slack and on LinkedIn.

Brett Teacher entered the field Information Technology over 20 years ago and has been developing applications on the ServiceNow platform for the last decade. As Vice President of Customer Success, he’s responsible for all post-sales activities including partner enablement, expert services implementations, and case management. While he’s still a ServiceNow architect at heart, he is enjoying his job of guiding teams over the finish line and building relationships along the way.

Shawn has been working in the marketing communications field for more than 20 years. (3/4 of those within a highly regulated industry like ours.) He’s even had the good fortune to work with a handful of innovative category leaders — from architecting award-winning website redesigns for two-hundred-year-old healthcare brands to managing the world’s largest medical device crowdfunding advertising campaign. He started his career at Internet startups. Maybe he’ll finish at one too.

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