Alex Simons
- Leads product management for Microsoft Entra identity
- Drove Azure AD's evolution into the Entra family
- Public advocate for passwordless and verifiable credentials
Bio
Alex Simons leads product management for Microsoft's identity platform, Microsoft Entra. He has been a public face of the platform's evolution from Azure Active Directory into the Entra family, and a consistent advocate for passwordless authentication and verifiable credentials at scale, given Microsoft's enormous identity footprint.
Profile built from public Microsoft and conference records.
Where their work shows up
The platform he leads is the default identity provider for most organizations that buy Microsoft 365, which makes decisions about conditional access defaults and passkey support consequential far beyond one vendor. See Okta vs Microsoft Entra and Microsoft Entra vs Ping Identity.
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