Rita Gurevich is the CEO and founder of SPHERE, a leading identity hygiene company redefining how organizations achieve access controls across their environment. 

Rita began her career at Lehman Brothers where she oversaw the distribution of technology assets after the organization’s bankruptcy in 2008. From this, Rita gained a deep understanding of analyzing identities, data platforms, and the overall application and system landscape distributed across buying entities. The enhanced regulatory environment aimed at protecting data from misuse concurrently forced large enterprises to more proactively manage and control access across their on-premises and cloud environments. 

With this knowledge, Gurevich founded SPHERE, an organization that provides critical governance, security, and compliance solutions centered around the expanding access control issues plaguing organizations. The company has developed a repeatable and effective approach to assessing, remediating, and managing access controls across any scope. Rita has driven the growth of SPHERE through its evolution to a cutting-edge software company that also provides services to clients with the only end-to-end access management solution available today. 

Gurevich is the recipient of multiple honors and awards including recognition from Ernst & Young for her entrepreneurial skills, SmartCEO, 40 Under 40, and many more. 

Rosario Mastrogiacomo is the Vice President of Strategy and Solution Engineering for SPHERE, where he focuses on solving complex security and infrastructure problems involving the processing and analysis of large data sets to find creative and out-of-box thinking solutions. 

Rosario has been working as a technology leader for over 25 years at financial organizations such as Neuberger Berman, Lehman Brothers, and Barclays. He has held various senior leadership positions including Global Head of Core Software Engineering, Head of Mac Platform Engineering, Global Head of Windows Engineering, and Windows Support Manager. Rosario has built and managed several teams within these positions, some with multi-million-dollar budgets. 

For the last eight years at SPHERE, Rosario has built the team and methodologies for the development of SPHEREboard. Rosario holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Baruch College (CUNY).