Gartner Expert

Mr. Farahmand led the Gartner Identity and Access Management consulting practice globally as well as the Security and Risk Management consulting practice in the financial services industry. He has worked in multiple commercial industries and public-sector organizations across North America, Europe and Japan. His IAM engagements during the last decade have spanned strategy and roadmap development, current architecture assessment, future architecture development, governance and organization development, risk and control management, technology and vendor evaluation, implementation oversight, and benchmarking and sourcing.

Before joining Gartner, Mr. Farahmand held consulting and leadership positions at Burton Group, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Meta Group and GE Capital IT solutions. Prior to that, he was involved in hands-on application development and system engineering.

Burton Group, Principal Consultant, 4 years

GE Capital IT Solutions, Enterprise Planning and Strategy Consultant, 4 years

Meta Group, Vice President, Strategic Solutions, 5 years