Leadership
With a combined 150+ years of experience, SPHERE’s leadership is comprised of the best and brightest experts in technology, infrastructure, finance, security, and compliance.

Rita Gurevich
CEO & Founder
Rita Gurevich is the CEO and founder of SPHERE, a leading identity hygiene company redefining how organizations achieve access controls across their environment.
Rita began her career at Lehman Brothers where she oversaw the distribution of technology assets after the organization’s bankruptcy in 2008. From this, Rita gained a deep understanding of analyzing identities, data platforms, and the overall application and system landscape distributed across buying entities. The enhanced regulatory environment aimed at protecting data from misuse concurrently forced large enterprises to more proactively manage and control access across their on-premises and cloud environments.
With this knowledge, Gurevich founded SPHERE, an organization that provides critical governance, security, and compliance solutions centered around the expanding access control issues plaguing organizations. The company has developed a repeatable and effective approach to assessing, remediating, and managing access controls across any scope. Rita has driven the growth of SPHERE through its evolution to a cutting-edge software company that also provides services to clients with the only end-to-end access management solution available today.
Gurevich is the recipient of multiple honors and awards including recognition from Ernst & Young for her entrepreneurial skills, SmartCEO, 40 Under 40, and many more.

Rosario Mastrogiacomo
Vice President, Engineering
Rosario Mastrogiacomo is the Vice President of Engineering for SPHERE, where he focuses on solving complex security and infrastructure problems involving the processing and analysis of large data sets to find creative and out-of-box thinking solutions.
Rosario has been working as a technology leader for over 25 years at financial organizations such as Neuberger Berman, Lehman Brothers, and Barclays. He has held various senior leadership positions including Global Head of Core Software Engineering, Head of Mac Platform Engineering, Global Head of Windows Engineering, and Windows Support Manager. Rosario has built and managed several teams within these positions, some with multi-million-dollar budgets.
For the last eight years at SPHERE, Rosario has built the team and methodologies for the development of SPHEREboard. Rosario holds a B.S. in Business Administration from Baruch College (CUNY).

Joseph Llano
Vice President, Service Delivery
Joseph Llano is the Executive VP of Service Deliver at SPHERE, where he is responsible for the strategic direction, solutions portfolio, service delivery lifecycle execution, and organizational performance.
Joe was formerly the Executive Vice President, Advanced Solutions Group at ITsavvy, where he managed the overall solutions portfolio with emphasis on financial metrics and delivering exceptional value to the client. Joe built the service delivery organization structure and processes to scale and support rapidly growing business with nation-wide service delivery capabilities.
Joe also previously managed large program delivery functions at EMC which spanned 600+ customers and generated $30M annually in professional services revenue. During his tenure, Joe authored several white papers on implementing IT transformation.
Joe holds a B.E. in Mechanical Engineering as well as M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Technology Management from Stevens Institute of Technology. Joe is also a credentialed Project Management Professional (PMP).

John Klinck
Vice President, Sales and Marketing
John Klinck is the Vice President of Sales and Marketing at SPHERE, where he is responsible for developing the go-to-market strategy, driving global sales, and managing and building technical alliances for the SPHERE ecosystem.
With a 20-year record of success propelling new revenue through sales activities, process improvements, and new product launches, John is a growth driven sales leader and business development manager. He is a technology professional with a proven ability to identify, analyze, and solve problems to increase customer satisfaction and drive revenue.
John formerly worked at EMC and IBM selling cutting-edge technology solutions to Fortune 100 companies. He has held various senior leadership positions including Northeast Flash Sales Director and NY/NJ Enterprise Sales Director. John holds an M.B.A. from Stevens Institute of Technology.

Douglas Bayne
Director, Information Technology and Cloud
Douglas Bayne is the Director of IT and Cloud for SPHERE, where he’s responsible for the lifecycle delivery of strategic, global data protection and governance solutions from gathering business requirements, architecting the target state, and socializing to executive management through development of projects, resource optimization, project and financial management, and stakeholder relationship management.
Doug brings to the table 25 years of experience managing global infrastructure as well as designing and deploying innovative compliance solutions for financial firms such as Lehman Brothers and Barclays.
Doug is an accomplished IT professional with success architecting delivery of enterprise-scale solutions that address business problems with re-engineering and technology across the Cybersecurity, Information Security, Data Governance, Collaboration, Mobility, and Identity & Access Management domains. Given his success, he’s a credible thought–leader and innovator with a deep understanding of technology, security, compliance, and risk. Douglas holds a B.S. in Mathematics from State University of New York at Oneonta.

Erich White
Director, Finance
As the Director of Finance and Administration, Erich oversees the finance and accounting teams who focus on financial planning and fiscal activity, including budgeting, reporting, and auditing.
Erich spent 25 years working in corporate finance at large organizations. His tenure includes ten years at Goldman Sachs where he held positions both running the Operations division, CFO team, and managing partner compensation, and eight years at Bristol-Myers Squibb where he helped implement SAP financials in the U.S. and Europe.
Most recently, Erich spent three years building a fractional CFO and finance advisory firm where he worked with many start-ups and small businesses as his company grew from two to twenty-five employees. Erich holds an M.B.A from New York University, and a B.S. in Finance from Seton Hall University.

Alexis DeGenaro
Manager, Human Resources
Alexis is an experienced HR lead facilitating M&A, benefits administration, and talent development for organizations such as Dell/EMC, Atos IT Services & Solutions, and NYU Langone Health.
Alexis holds an M.S. in Human Resources Management and Development from New York University, and a B.S. from The University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Alexis also possesses a Human Resources Management certificate from Cornell University.
In addition to her HR functions, Alexis also acts as SPHERE’s Culture Ambassador to strengthen and promote the organization’s values, ethics, vision, behaviors, and work environment.

James Wilde
Head of Security Strategy
In this role, James works with SPHERE’s clients to advise on IT Security strategies and how to best implement them into their current business procedures.
James brings over 20 years of IT and security experience with some of the largest financial institutions where he ran global security programs and services for enterprises. James was the Director of Data Protection and Insider Risk for Forcepoint, and also spent over a decade at Barclays where he was accountable for the implementation and operation of security technologies.

Fredy Martinez-Pardo
Head of Customer Success
As our Head of Customer Success, Fredy is responsible for delivering best user experience supporting four main areas - Pre-Sales, Product Implementation, Customer Support sessions as well as Product roadmap contributing to the direction of the (SAAS) Product.
He has 14 years of experience on Information Security large scale transformations programs and Global Banking Modernization, for two of major financial institutions worldwide (Santander Bank – MUFG Financial Group).
Fredy He is a technology expert with profound leadership in technical implementation, strategic roadmap, execution, and delivery. Fredy holds bachelor’s in Computer Science from Bosque University and Business Administration from College of Florida..