Our Team

The Founders
	Tim Cole, born in 1950, is an experienced publicist, book author and TV moderator in the field of eBusiness and IT security. As editor of the business magazine “Net Investor” he has a proven track record for journalistic objectivity, as well as the ability to critically evaluate the impact of technology on business processes and markets. His book “Management Challenge Security” (published in German by Carl Hanser) has become a standard textbook for non-technical managers involved in IT security decision-making.
	Martin Kuppinger, born in 1965, is the author of more than 50 IT-related books, as well as a widely-read columnist and author of technical articles and reviews in some of the most prestigious IT magazines in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He is also a well-known speaker and moderator at seminars and congresses. His interest in Identity Management dates back to the 80ies, when he also gained considerable experience in software architecture development.
	Jörg Resch, born in 1959, looks back on over 15 years of experience in Identity Management projects and their implementation in both SMUs and large corporations. For a number of years he led leadership positions in software product development and published many technical articles on a wide range of IM-related subjects
Senior Analysts
	Dr. Horst Walther, born 1951 in Berlin, works as a management consultant and independent technical advisor for more than 30 years. His expertise focuses on the business to technology interface. At Kuppinger, Cole + Partner he covers the domain of IAM-processes, roles, rules & policies and the management of IAM-projects.
	Sebastian Rohr, born in 1974, carrier started in 1998 with Siemens ICN. At that time, he concentrated his activities on network security, Smartcards and strong authentication. Afterwards, he became a member of the research group SIMS at Fraunhofer-Institut SIT, focussing on the security of mobile and wireless communication as well as the secure handover within mobile networks. During the past years, he worked for CA and was significantly involved in the development of the Identity Management market throughout the German speaking area, before he changed to Microsoft to hold a position as Chief Security Advisor.
	Felix Gaehtgens, born in 1969, joined KCP coming from Symlabs, a company specialising in Identity Management Infrastructure. He brings extensive experience in access management, directory technology and identity federation. In addition to enterprise identity management, he also has a deep understanding of the specific identity management issues for Telcos and large service providers, having been involved as an architect in many projects within this space over the years. His understanding of technology is very horizontal - he has been an all-rounder, working since 1987 as a developer, system and database administrator, networker, architect and project manager.
Sales
	Thomas Steinmayer, born in 1967, is working for more than 10 years in different areas of the IT distribution. In the past 5 years Identity management has been the main topic he has been working on.

Integrated Industry knowledge

Sometimes, IT solutions can be applied in the same manner to all or at least many industries. But in many cases, industry-specific requirements and industry-knowledge is required for optimized solutions. From the very beginning we have provided industry-specific information, starting with matrixes which analyze the relevance of specific IAM technologies for different industries.

Through the personal history of every KCP analyst, through our strategic consulting projects and through or ongoing research and the discussion with customers we have assemble industry-specific knowledge for most of the leading industries. Amongst these are Automotive and Manufacturing, Finance and Insurance, Telecommunications, Healthcare, Government, and Logistics. Given that our research focuses more on general IT aspects like IAM, GRC, BSM, or SOA, we are convinced that we can provide valuable services to any of these industries, bearing in mind the industry-specific requirements.