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Michael Graves is the CEO of JanRain whose mission is to provide identity services that help users securely manage, control and innovate with their own digital identities based on the emerging OpenID protocol - one username, one password for all of the sites you go to on the Internet.
In 1998 Michael founded Signio, Inc., an e-commerce provider of payment services for internet merchants. The company was seeded by Eric Di Benedetto and Robb Wilmot as the sole Series A investors. Signio was sold to VeriSign for $1.5 billion a few years later where it grew to be the dominant provider for online payment services on the web. After the acquisition of Signio, Michael worked in a variety of technical and business development roles at VeriSign. As the CTO of VeriSign's Labs, he was engaged in VeriSign's research and development efforts that focused on universal identity systems for Internet applications.
Michael abandoned college at the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1988 to work for Guy Kawasaki in what became ACIUS, Inc, a spinout from Apple Computer. Michael's focus on compilers, cryptography and distributed systems led to development and architectural positions at a number of Silicon Valley software leaders, including Symantec, NeXT, IBM and Forte Software, prior to a sabbatical which led to the founding of Signio.Michael is the co-author of 4 patents related to PKI, digital identity and network commerce | 