Senior Vice President, Product Management
Keyfactor
Mark Thompson

Mark is currently Senior Vice President of Product Management at Keyfactor where he is responsible for strategic management of the company’s global Machine Identity Management product portfolio including product roadmaps, packaging and pricing.  Mark regularly participates in industry consortia events and was invited to a White House roundtable on Quantum Safe Cryptography. Mark has been a member of the Keyfactor team since 2017.

Before joining Keyfactor, Mark was Sr. Director of New Product Introduction for Aclara Technologies, and the product manager for Aclara’s Metrum line of LTE products and ran product management for wireless communication solutions in the gas, water, and electric utility market.  While at Aclara, Mark founded the Wi-Fi Alliance Smart Grid Task Group, which is responsible for the certification program for Smart Energy Profile 2.0 running on Wi-Fi devices.  Mark is the former chair the group and member of the ZigBee Smart Energy and Consortium for SEP Interoperability.  Mark also founded the IEEE 802.11ah standards group devoted to the development of Sub-GHz Wi-Fi for Smart Grid and sensor networks, and was its first chair.


Mark Thompson
Senior Vice President, Product Management
Keyfactor