Apttus co-founder and category creator joins Avatier board to define and dominate Trusted Conversational AI for Identity across global enterprises.
Avatier Corporation, a provider of Identity and Access Management (IAM) and Conversational AI for identity, today announced the appointment of Kirk Krappe, co-founder and former CEO of Apttus, to its Board of Directors.
I have built my career on one belief — that the companies which define the category own the market”
— Kirk Krappe
Krappe co-founded Apttus and led it as CEO from inception through its growth into the defining company of the Quote-to-Cash category, backed by investors including Salesforce Ventures, ICONIQ Capital, and K1, and serving more than 350 enterprise customers worldwide before its acquisition by Thoma Bravo. His appointment brings deep category-creation and enterprise go-to-market experience to Avatier as it scales its Trusted Conversational AI for Identity platform and passwordless-first strategy across global markets. An EY Entrepreneur of the Year finalist, Krappe brings more than two decades of enterprise software experience, spanning early cloud pioneer Corio and executive roles at Oracle and Siebel Systems.
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“Kirk has done something few executives have: he built a category from scratch and made the market
adopt its language,” said Nelson Cicchitto, Chairman and CEO of Avatier. “We believe conversational
AI for identity is at a similar inflection point. Kirk’s experience scaling Apttus globally will help us
define this category and bring it to enterprises worldwide.”
“Companies that define a category tend to lead it,” said Kirk Krappe. “Avatier is applying
conversational AI to one of the hardest problems in enterprise software — identity — at exactly the
moment enterprises are rethinking security for an AI-driven world. I’m looking forward to helping the
team scale globally.”
