Hungry? We talk Smoked Meat, Poutine, and Bagel – also, Identiverse Interviews! – François Proulx, John Pritchard, Cassie Christensen, Jaime Lewis-Gross, Kim Brown – ESW #467

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Guests
VP of Security Research at Boost Security

François is the VP of Security Research at Boost Security and co-creator of the poutine Open Source CI/CD scanner. He co-founded the Living Off The Pipeline (LOTP) project to describe the abuse of build tools for lateral movement. After spending years teaching defenders how to secure their workflows, he is now demonstrating how attackers are dismantling them.

CEO at Radiant Logic

Dr. John Pritchard is Chief Executive Officer of Radiant Logic, the identity security platform trusted by 30% of the Fortune 500 and 60% of U.S. Cabinet-level agencies. He stepped into the CEO role in January 2025 after joining Radiant Logic in 2022 as Chief Product Officer, where he led the company’s evolution from a virtual directory provider into an AI-driven Identity Security Posture Management platform that unifies, observes, and acts on human, non-human, and agentic AI identities.

John is the architect of the Three Identity Problem framework, the uncontrolled inheritance chain that forms across human, non-human, and agentic AI identities in the modern enterprise. His work reframes identity security as an observability problem and is shifting the center of gravity from authentication to authorization, governance, and lifecycle across the full identity chain.
Prior to Radiant Logic, John held senior product and engineering roles at Okta, Adobe, and IBM. Under his leadership, Radiant Logic was recognized in three Gartner categories in 2025, including Identity Visibility and Intelligence Platforms and AI for Access Administration, and earned Gold in the 2026 Globee Cybersecurity Awards (IAM) and Silver in the 2026 Cybersecurity Excellence Awards (ISPM). He holds a Ph.D. in Innovation Management from the University of Denver and is a frequent Forbes contributor on identity security and zero trust architecture.

Field CTO at Saviynt

Cassie Christensen is a seasoned identity security practitioner who specializes in revitalizing broken programs by prioritizing people and processes over technology. Known for turning complex strategy into executable action, she excels at building stakeholder trust and navigating organizational ambiguity to align business needs with security goals. Beyond solving technical challenges, Cassie is dedicated to empowering other practitioners, using her hands-on experience to help teams overcome operational hurdles and drive meaningful, community-wide change in the identity space.

Senior Vice President of Solutions Engineering at Saviynt

Jaime Lewis-Gross is the Senior Vice President of Solutions Engineering at Saviynt, where she leads technical strategy and the Solutions Engineering organization supporting enterprise identity security initiatives. She partners with customers and executive leadership to help organizations modernize identity governance while advancing AI-driven approaches to identity governance, risk & security.

Vice President, Product Management at LexisNexis Risk Solutions

Kim Brown is VP of Product Management and has been with LexisNexis Risk Solutions since 2015. She currently leads teams responsible for the identity solutions focused on identity verification, authentication and risk assessment, the prefill solutions focused on improving consumer experience and the product performance group focused on setting best practices and standards for our insurance and healthcare product management organization.

Previously, Kim held analyst roles at a top P&C carrier focused on customer acquisition and the online customer experience. Kim earned her bachelor’s degree in math and statistics from Morgan State University, has a master’s in financial mathematics from Purdue University and earned her master’s in business administration from Emory University’s Goizueta Business School.

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