News & Events

Keep apprised of the latest News and Events from Avaleris.

News Flash

Avaleris Appoints Conrad Bayer as Senior Vice President of IDA Strategy

Ottawa, November 19, 2007 - Avaleris® Inc., a global provider of Identity Assurance professional services and integrated identity lifecycle management solutions, today announced the appointment of Conrad Bayer as Senior Vice President of IDA Strategy. In this role, Conrad will provide strategic guidance and thought leadership to both Avaleris and its customers in the enterprise Identity Management space -- further extending Avaleris’ ability to assist our customers in the strategic planning and implementation of Identity Management solutions.

Conrad Bayer brings more than 13 years of product / services innovation experience, largely in the development of enterprise security software in the Identity space -- spanning product strategy, product team management and strategic customer advisory roles. Conrad joins the Avaleris team from Microsoft’s corporate Connected Identity & Directory Division located in Redmond, Washington.

During his time at Microsoft, Conrad held several roles including Group Program Manager, leading the Credential Management Engineering Team within Windows Security responsible for bringing Microsoft’s Certificate Lifecycle Manager (CLM) product to market as ILM 2007 and most recently, as an Identity Architect in Microsoft’s Identity Strategy Group. Prior to his tenure at Microsoft, Conrad was a co-founder of Alacris -- the original developers of idNexus (the predecessor to CLM) -- and held the role of Vice President and Chief Technology Officer from the company’s inception in 1999 through its acquisition by Microsoft in late 2005.

“The enterprise identity management space continues to evolve quickly, presenting new challenges and opportunities for customers to provide trusted access to business assets and sensitive information. I am excited to be working with Avaleris to find new and innovative ways to provide customers additional value in this space”, says Conrad Bayer, Senior Vice President of IDA Strategy, Avaleris. “The Avaleris team has a strong heritage of client success, product innovation and domain expertise in enabling enterprise customers to deploy Identity Management solutions in Microsoft centric environments.”

“Conrad’s understanding of the business challenges customers face in deploying enterprise security software and his proven ability to drive the innovation process leading to world-class products are well demonstrated”, said Ron Mac Donell, President & CEO, Avaleris. “His vision, experience and entrepreneurial passion within a rapidly evolving Identity Management market will be a great asset to Avaleris and extend our ability to create additional value and success for our clients.”

Conrad holds an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Computing and Information Science from Queen’s University.

About Avaleris

Avaleris is a global provider of Identity Assurance professional services and integrated smart card / digital certificate based identity lifecycle management solutions using Microsoft’s Identity & Access products including Identity Lifecycle Manager (ILM) 2007, Windows Server 2003 Certificate Services and Windows Server 2003 Active Directory. Leveraging their heritage and domain expertise in the area of Identity Assurance product development, Avaleris’ professional staff is focused on assisting enterprise organizations in the implementation of Identity Management infrastructure solutions using Microsoft technologies in a manner that supports existing management processes and security policies required by their business.

Avaleris was incorporated by founders of Alacris, the original developer of idNexus, which was acquired by Microsoft in late 2005 and subsequently released with Microsoft ILM 2007 -- providing an integrated Identity Lifecycle Management platform for Microsoft’s overall IDA solution portfolio. For more information please visit www.avaleris.com.

All trademarks are properties of their respective owners.

Back