About us | Ory

Building the future of identity and access management

Our values

01
Customer first
Our customers are at the heart of everything we do. Their ideas and feedback guide us and inspire us to push greater boundaries.

02
Integrity
Security, transparency, and trust are our foundation. Guided by our Open Source roots, we stay true to our principles in everything we do.

03
Collaboration
Together, we achieve more. By working closely with ourselves, our customers, partners, and community, we turn shared goals into reality.

04
Determination
We are driven to make a difference. Relentless in our pursuit of progress, we are committed to improvement without compromise.

We operate around the clock to make sure your IAM runs the way you need it to — our stats speak for themselves

Leadership

Jeff Kukowski
CEO
Scales high-growth cybersecurity companies and Zero Trust identity infrastructure, previously as CEO of CloudBolt and SecureAuth and CRO at Yubico.

Aeneas Rekkas
Founder & CTO
Architect of Ory Hydra and Ory Kratos, championing security-by-design and Zero Trust as a Go developer and speaker.

Leonie Habermann
Chief of Operations
Oversees Ory’s strategic growth, with 20+ years in business development, marketing, and operations and an MBA from St. Galler Business School.

Justin Dolly
Chief Customer and Security Officer
Leads Ory’s security strategy and customer success, as a Certified CISO (CCISO) with 20+ years building security cultures in global organizations.

Greg Vesper
Chief Product Officer
Focused on securing human and AI agent identities at scale, after work in NASA e-commerce, cloud medical imaging, and as CTO of Smarsh.

Rob Murray
Chief Revenue Officer
Scales Ory’s go-to-market across B2B, Customer, and Agent IAM, with leadership roles at Ping Identity, PagerDuty, Anaplan, and HP.

Colleen Shannon
Chief Financial Officer
A seasoned tech startup finance executive, previously CFO at CampusLogic and Lumension, and most recently at equipifi.

Andreas Bucksteeg
Cloud & Infrastructure Director
Leads technical strategy for Ory’s open-source identity tools, drawing on 25+ years in cloud-native architecture. Co-founded hybris (acquired by SAP).

Board of directors

Jeff Kukowski
CEO

Aeneas Rekkas
Founder & CTO

Colin Hanna
Partner at Balderton Capital

Paul Wahl
Independent Board Member

George Mathew
Managing Director at Insight

Our investors

Years of innovation and growth

Ory & EMA launch global survey on agentic: "Agentic AI Identities – Is Your Organization Prepared?" Agentic survey finds 79% of organizations lack policies to govern agents. Ory achieves PCI DSS compliance. Ory launches Ory Agent Security and Ory Talos, driving a new wave of Agent IAM innovation.