Executive Team

Paul has over 15 years of experience in senior leadership roles in identity and access management. Most recently, Paul was the Chief Product Officer at SailPoint Technologies. Paul joined SailPoint in 2007 as head of product, driving the product strategy, roadmap and messaging for SailPoint’s market leading identity management portfolio. He played a key role in taking SailPoint from its early days as a pioneer in identity to its successful IPO in 2017, and beyond. Before joining SailPoint, Paul gained extensive experience in formulating innovative product strategies, launching new products in early-stage ventures, and growing products into category leaders at a variety of technology companies including Newgistics, Sabre, Inc. and Pervasive Software. He holds BBA and MBA degrees from TCU.

Karan Dua is the Chief Financial Officer at SecureAuth, where he is responsible for the company’s global general and administrative function which includes accounting, finance, treasury, tax, and legal. Dua is an accomplished finance executive and brings over 20 years of corporate and operational finance experience across the technology industry. During his career, Dua has worked with public, venture capital-backed, and private equity-backed high-growth technology companies. Prior to SecureAuth, Dua worked at PlanGrid (acquired by Autodesk) where he scaled the finance function to support the Company’s hyper revenue growth. He also worked at YuMe ($170M revenue public company) where he focused on transforming operations in a number of key business functions. Karan also brings valuable experience working for Big 4 accounting firms PwC and Ernst & Young, where he focused on publicly traded and start-up technology companies. Karan has an MBA from UC Berkeley and is a Certified Public Accountant, licensed in the state of California.

Mandeep Khera is the Chief Marketing Officer at SecureAuth . He has been a senior global executive in marketing, channels, and business development for over twenty five years in companies of various sizes offering enterprise Software/SaaS including HP, VeriSign, Gigamon, Cenzic, LogLogic, Arxan, and others. His experience includes about two decades in cybersecurity including access management, web application security, network security, mobile security, cloud security, and email security. In addition, he has held key executive positions in Big Data, and IoT companies. He has been a contributing editor for online security publications and was a chapter leader for the OWASP Bay Area chapter for a number of years. He is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Leading Product Development program and Northwestern University’s Executive Development Program. He holds an MBA from Santa Clara University.

Ernie Tkac is the Chief Revenue Officer at SecureAuth where he leads the global sales organization and solution engineering team. He brings a wealth of experience with over two decades in IAM and cybersecurity at companies such as SailPoint, Netegrity, Computer Associates and Centrify where he successfully led and built sales organizations from the ground up to help drive three liquidity events in the past 7 years. Under Ernie’s leadership, these organizations have achieved great success, earning many accolades for their growth in the market and successful customer relationships. Most recently Ernie led the sales organization as CRO at DNSFilter. Ernie earned his BS from Penn State University.

Kelly Wenzel is the Chief Customer Officer and leads the global strategy that defines customer success and customer centricity at SecureAuth. As a member of the executive leadership team, Kelly and her Customer Success, Professional Services and Customer Support teams partner closely with the entire SecureAuth organization to deliver an unwavering focus on making it easy for customers to succeed  in their next-generation authentication and access management journey.

She has successfully led and created dramatic market growth by focusing on the customer experience and culture with her human-centric approach. Prior to joining SecureAuth, Kelly held several senior management positions at LinkedIn, Jobvite, Simply Hired and Odyssey Information Services.

For the last six years, she grew through the ranks and was instrumental at Cornerstone OnDemand, in helping to scale the business to $1B in revenue and founded the Women @ Cornerstone employee resource group. Kelly holds a B.B.A, in Business, Management and Marketing from M.J. Neeley School of Business at Texas Christian University (TCU) where she was a member of Kappa Kappa Gamma.

As SecureAuth’s Chief Technology Officer, Shahrokh leads a team of technologists driving a paradigm shift in cybersecurity through SecureAuth’s Passwordless Continuous Authentication and Identity Platform for hundreds of global enterprises. He is driving the innovation for SecureAuth’s identity security delivered as a service to tie and deployed across cloud, hybrid and on-premises environments. Previously, Shahrokh was the CEO of Acceptto Corporation, a transformative company with AI/ML powered Passwordless Continuous Authentication technology. SecureAuth acquired Acceptto in November 2021. Shahrokh is a veteran technologist and leader with 30 years of contribution to modern computer architecture, device identity, platform trust elevation, large IoT initiatives and ambient intelligence research with more than 42 issued and pending patents. Prior to Acceptto, Shahrokh was a senior principal technologist contributing to Intel Corporation for 25 years in a variety of leadership positions where he architected and led multiple billion-dollar product initiatives.

Alan Lipton is the Senior Vice President of Engineering at SecureAuth. With more than 20 years of experience leading world-class enterprise software and product delivery, Alan is responsible for the delivery of the company’s product vision.  He will accelerate the mission and vision of the company’s development teams including Security Operations and DevSec Operations. He has extensive experience executing transformative product development strategies. Most recently, Alan was the CTO of Tenfold, a VC funded, market-leading company in the Computer Telephony Integration (CTI space), where he created a product that drove strong double-digit revenue growth that culminated in a successful acquisition by LivePerson. Previously, Alan was the engineering leader for the Metasploit suite of products at Rapid7, where he was responsible for making Offensive Security tools accessible to IT professionals with limited experience. For more than eight years he was the CTO at ObjectVideo and was the CTO of Enterprise Software at General Electric (GE). Alan earned his BSc and BE degrees as well as a PhD in from Monash University in Australia. He conducted his Post Doctorate in Robotics at Carnegie Mellon University. He currently resides in Austin, TX with his family.

Kristy Miller is SecureAuth’s VP of Human Resources to lead SecureAuth’s people strategy which includes talent acquisition and management,  talent development, and new initiatives to help drive market presence. As a SPHR and SHRM-SCP and HR leader, she brings more than 25 years global human resources experience in Fortune 500 and start-up organizations. She led global HR management efforts and strategy at Lennar, Experian and Broadcom to scale for growth, and developed and implemented highly successful initiatives around talent acquisition, development, and retention. Previously, she managed a team at Raytheon and directed HR at EDMC/The Art Institutes as well as directed a team at Crave Entertainment Group. She is a collaborative leader who builds empowered, high performing teams that exceed objectives. Kristy holds an MBA from the University of La Verne and a B.A. in Business Administration from California State University, Fullerton.