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About
Ken Grohe has enjoyed being a rainmaker business entrepreneur for over 35 years. Grohe's experience includes a 25-year career at EMC, where he was VP & GM of the company’s flash, software, and partner business units. He was with Barracuda as they went public as SVP & GM, CRO of Virident and its acquirer, Western Digital, and President of SignNow. Additionally, he was the CRO of Samsung's Stellus and President, CRO at AI leader WekaIO, CRO/SVP of Taos/subsequent Partner, Platform Engineering at IBM, and fractional CMO of SPHERE. An International Bestselling Author, and Rockland, Mass Hall Of Fame inductee ('22), Grohe has served as a board advisor/investor to several technology companies, including: Zoom, SecurityScorecard, Evisort/WorkDay, LeverageGTM, Boston Red Sox, Santa Cruz Warriors, Multiple Sclerosis Society, Pasatiempo, Modigie, SalesCommunity, Boston College, Stanford GSB, Breezeway, CoPilot, Cohesity, ServIQ/ServiceExpress, Taos, Mettalic.io/Commvault, SantaCruzWhatever.com, & www.SPHERECO.com
Ken Grohe
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AI can supercharge your marketing, but without human guidance, it won’t resonate. These strategies help your business keep both. Artificial intelligence has helped many businesses move faster, work smarter, and reach broader audiences with their marketing and publicity efforts. But as use of this technology grows, so does the risk of losing the very thing that makes your brand stand out: the human connection. Luckily, you don't have to choose between AI and humanity; in fact, the most successful leaders and businesses are finding ways to blend both. To help, 11 members of Fast Company Executive Board discuss how you can use AI to amplify your reach without sacrificing authenticity.
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As organizations continue to improve their security at the identity perimeter, machine identities become the security frontier.
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CEO’s faith in AI's potential speaks volumes about its role in shaping the future of business. However, executive-level disconnects could throw its adoption off track.
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Platform engineering is able to fill critical gaps in organizational processes and enable the cross-department collaboration that DevOps adopters set out to achieve.
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SPHERE
Company bio
SPHERE is the leader in Identity Intelligence. We help companies maintain real-time visibility, achieve least privilege, and automate identity risk mitigation. Organizations often struggle with Non Human Identity (aka NHI), AgenticAI, ServiceAccounts, and excessive, unmonitored privileges, historical blind spots, and compliance gaps—creating significant security and audit risks. SPHERE solves this with SPHEREboard, an AI-driven platform that continuously discovers, analyzes, and remediates identity security risks with minimal manual effort. By augmenting the foundational capabilities of PAM, IGA, and other identity solutions, SPHERE enforces identity hygiene—enabling security teams to identify excessive access, protect privileged assets from external threats, and meet compliance mandates faster and more effectively than ever before.