Babak Sadighi

Chief Executive Officer

Founder and CEO, Babak Sadighi earned his PhD in Computer Science from Imperial College, London. Prior to Axiomatics, Babak lead the Security, Policy and Trust research laboratory at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science. Babak has several years of experience in the fields of access control and authorization management. Babak led several R&D projects in collaboration with industry leading organizations and he has a number of international publications in his specified field. He is also a program committee member of several international workshops and conferences in the security and policy management field.

Erik Rissanen

Chief Technology Officer

Founder and chairman of the board, Erik Rissanen has an M.Sc in computer science from the Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm and an M.Sc in economics from Stockholm School of Economics. Erik has many years of research and development experience and several international publications in the field of access control and authorization management. Erik has been a member of the XACML Technical Committee since 2004, where he is the editor of the XACML 3.0 specification.

Finn Frisch

Business Development

Finn Frisch is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM) with more than 20 years of experience in the field of information security. At Axiomatics, Finn heads strategic planning and business development efforts. Prior to joining Axiomatics, he held management positions in companies such as RSA Security, FoxT and Deloitte Enterprise Risk Services. Finn has completed his Masters at the Freie Universitat Berlin and Gothenburg University, Sweden

Gerry Gebel

President, Axiomatics Americas

As president, Gerry Gebel is responsible for sales, customer support, marketing, and business development for the Americas region. In addition, he will contribute to product strategy and manage partner relationships for Axiomatics. Prior to joining Axiomatics, Gerry was vice president and service director for Burton Group’s identity management practice. He covered topics such as authorization, federation, identity and access governance, user provisioning and other IdM topics. In 2007, he facilitated the first ever XACML interoperability demonstration at the Catalyst conference. In addition, Gerry has nearly 15 years experience in the financial services industry including architecture development, engineering, integration, and support of Internet, distributed, and mainframe systems.

Pablo Giambiagi

Strategic Research & Product Manager

Pablo Giambiagi joined Axiomatics in August, 2008 and is managing the development of the Axiomatics Policy Auditor, a tool for governance, risk and compliance management (GRCM) involving the formal analysis of policies. Pablo earned his M.Phil in Computer Science from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm. Pablo has previously worked as a researcher and project manager at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS) in areas such as formal models of security, information flow, and formal verification of access control policies. Pablo has several international publications in the field of security.

Ludwig Seitz

Customer Training and Development

Ludwig Seitz joined Axiomatics in June 2008. He is currently managing customer training as well as working on the design and development of Axiomatics products. Ludwig has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA) in Lyon, France. Prior to joining Axiomatics, he was a researcher at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science (SICS). His research areas include access control, information security, usable security, and privacy. Ludwig is a member of the XACML Technical Committee, he has been actively contributing to the XACML 3.0 specification since 2004.

Andreas Sjöholm

Product Development and Management

Andreas Sjöholm joined Axiomatics in 2007 as a product developer. He is currently managing the development of Axiomatics products. Andreas completed his M.Sc in communication technology, security and software design from the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Stockholm.