Senior Product Strategist
Thales Digital Identity and Security
Ward Duchamps, who brings over two decades of experience in Identity and Access Management, currently serves as the Director of Strategy & Innovation for the Identity & Access Management (IAM) product line at Thales.
Prior to joining Thales, Ward was the founder and CEO of Scaled Access, a specialist in fine-grained and policy-based authorization, which became an integral part of the Thales OneWelcome Identity Platform since early 2022. Additionally, Ward co-founded cloud authorization broker miaa Guard, and served as the company’s CTO for over a decade. During his tenure there, he led a dedicated team in integrating CIAM technology for numerous corporate customers. Before these ventures, Ward served as the Director of security and privacy services at Deloitte.