Patrick Parker
Founder and CEO
Patrick holds an MBA from the Ohio State University, an MS in Biology from Pennsylvania State University, and a BS in Zoology from Ohio University. Patrick led a technology consulting organization for 5 years prior to founding EmpowerID in June of 2004.
Patrick had led a consulting and software development organization in the development of innovative SharePoint web parts to securely delegate administration and self-service, large-scale e-commerce solutions, as well as workflow solutions for regulatory compliance.
Bradford Mandell
SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT AND COFOUNDER
Brad holds a BSBA from the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, and has also studied at Harvard University and Ohio University.
Ujwal Halkatti
Chief Operating Officer
With over two decades of experience in the technology sector, Ujwal has been instrumental in driving EmpowerID's growth and operational excellence since joining the company in 2012.
Ujwal is in charge of company-wide operations, processes, product quality, and driving customer success. Prior to joining EmpowerID’s management team, Ujwal was Director of Software Development at Solarwinds, a public software company, where he was responsible for delivering storage and virtualization management products.
Ujwal also served as Director, Product Development at Tek-Tools during a period of rapid growth between 2005 and 2010, which resulted in the successful acquisition of the company.
Carles Dalmau
Vice President of Product Architecture
Carles holds an Enginyer Informatic from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Spain. Carles has a long and varied background in security modeling and design, enterprise application development, database design, workflow orchestration and service-oriented architecture application development.
Cristiana Vicovan
Director of Product Management
Cristiana holds an MS in Chemistry and multiple Product and Management Certifications, won the CTO of the Year Women in It Europe Award before joining EmpowerID. She was Co-Founder & CTO. of UIQ Travel, a US tourism startup, Manager and Cloud Expert in Oracle, Co-Founder and Director of Product at Dreamaker, a software development company bringing to EmpowerID over 15 years of technical and management experience.
