About the Author: Reed McGinley-Stempel
Reed McGinley-Stempel is the co-founder and CEO of Stytch, a developer-first identity and access management platform that makes it easy for companies to uplevel their security and build authentication – all while saving valuable engineering resources. Before Stytch, Reed worked with fellow co-founder Julianna Lamb at Plaid, where they first encountered the dearth of developer- or user-friendly auth solutions on the market. In 2020, they started Stytch with one product offering (email magic links) and a commitment to advancing passwordless solutions.
Since then, they have raised over $100M in funding and have grown the product suite into a full-spectrum identity and access management solution, complete with B2B and B2C offerings, breach-resistant password and passwordless auth factors, multi-factor authentication and fraud and risk protection.
As a CEO in cybersecurity, Reed combines the skepticism and rigorous market analytics he honed while a consultant at Bain and Co. with the optimism and obsession with eliminating user friction he honed at Plaid. Reed’s expertise lies at the intersection of cybersecurity and the larger ecosystem of how people live their lives online. Most recently, he’s been asked to contribute his thoughts on the impact AI will have on identity and access management, and how companies can best prepare. His writing has been featured in TechCrunch, RTInsights, Security Boulevard, and he has spoken at conferences like Web Summit and the Montgomery Conference. In the spring of 2023, Reed was named one of Business Journal’s 40 under 40.
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