{"id":1006,"date":"2021-08-19T14:16:25","date_gmt":"2021-08-19T14:16:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elivebiz.com\/IAAS\/?post_type=news&#038;p=1006"},"modified":"2021-08-27T16:41:06","modified_gmt":"2021-08-27T16:41:06","slug":"identity-and-access-solutions-hires-iam-industry-veteran-richard-a-weeks-as-client-director","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/elivebiz.com\/IAAS\/news\/identity-and-access-solutions-hires-iam-industry-veteran-richard-a-weeks-as-client-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Identity and Access Solutions Hires IAM Industry Veteran Richard A. Weeks as Client Director"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"1006\" class=\"elementor elementor-1006\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<section class=\"elementor-section elementor-top-section elementor-element elementor-element-7c3a731 elementor-section-boxed elementor-section-height-default elementor-section-height-default\" data-id=\"7c3a731\" data-element_type=\"section\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-container elementor-column-gap-default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-column elementor-col-100 elementor-top-column elementor-element elementor-element-45307ec\" data-id=\"45307ec\" data-element_type=\"column\">\n\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-wrap elementor-element-populated\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-4acf42c elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"4acf42c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>ASHBURN, Va., August 26, 2021 \u2013 Identity and Access Solutions, LLC (IAAS), a leading provider of highly qualified technology talent for the Identity and Access Management (IAM) community, today announced the hiring of Richard (Ric) A. Weeks, an IAM industry channels and alliances veteran, as Client Director, effective immediately.<\/p><p>Weeks is a seasoned IAM industry executive with over 20 years of identity-related channel sales, corporate development and strategic alliances experience. His past roles included sales leadership positions with Centrify, CyberArk, Lieberman Software, BeyondTrust and Saviynt, where he successfully forged and developed monetized go-to-market partnerships with firms across the identity spectrum, including those focused on Privileged Access Management (PAM), Identity-as-a-Service (IDaas), Identity Governance and Administration (IGA), and the emerging cloud infrastructure security markets. Ric\u2019s experience also includes corporate development, where he was instrumental in the 2018 acquisition of Lieberman Software by Bomgar\/BeyondTrust.<\/p><p>Weeks will be responsible for the expansion of business with Independent Software Vendor (ISV), Global System Integrator (GSI), and Value-Add Reseller (VAR) relationships focusing on the Americas and Europe.<\/p><p>\u201cWe are very pleased to have Ric join the team at IAAS to help expand our reach and visibility within the ISV, GSI, and VAR communities,\u201d said IAAS Vice President of Sales George Miller. \u201cRic\u2019s career experience and expertise in all phases of identity, coupled with his tenacity and extensive list of industry relationships, will have an immediate impact on our current fiscal year\u2019s revenue and future success.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cIt\u2019s my honor to join IAAS to help achieve our mission of enabling \u2018Zero Cost Bench\u2019 staffing with our hard-to-find resources who are highly qualified and have the necessary experience and certifications to provide outstanding IAM presales and project delivery,\u201d said Weeks. \u201cWith a large gap between available technical subject matter experts (SME) and the exponential growth in IAM project needs and demands in the marketplace, I am excited to help enable our clients fill this void so they can be fully staffed to win, scope and deliver their projects on time and within budget.\u201d<\/p><p><strong>About Identity and Access Solutions<\/strong><\/p><p>Identity and Access Solutions (IAAS) helps enable a \u201czero cost bench\u201d for Identity and Access Management (IAM), Privileged Access Management (PAM), and Identity Governance and Administration (IGA) services talent. IAAS is a boutique staffing firm uniquely focused on providing IAM-certified architects, project managers, pre-sales, and deployment professionals with relevant expertise utilizing SailPoint, Okta, Ping, CyberArk, Thycotic-Centrify, BeyondTrust, Savyint, and Oracle technology. IAAS was founded in 2015 with a recognition of the expanding gap between the rapid growth in IAM projects and an increasingly hard to find supply of qualified and certified IAM design and deploy services personnel. IAAS has enjoyed double-digit growth each year by employing a rigorous vetting process to help fill the void and provide a quality talent pool to enable a trusted \u2018Just-In-Time\u2019 approach for some of today\u2019s leading independent software vendors (ISV), advisory firms, system integrators (SI), and security-focused value-added resellers (VAR). These companies rely on IAAS to augment their IAM services delivery capabilities and help successfully drive utilization up to 100%. IAAS is based in Ashburn, VA and has an office in New Delhi, India and Ottawa, Canada. To learn more, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.identityandaccesssolutions.com\">www.identityandaccesssolutions.com<\/a>. Follow us at <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAAS_IAMexperts\">https:\/\/twitter.com\/IAAS_IAMexperts<\/a>.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASHBURN, Va., August 26, 2021 \u2013 Identity and Access Solutions, LLC (IAAS), a leading provider of highly qualified technology talent for the Identity and Access Management (IAM) community, today announced the hiring of Richard (Ric) A. Weeks, an IAM industry channels and alliances veteran, as Client Director, effective immediately. 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