# Co-founder and CEO, SailPoint

Source: https://startwithidentity.com/experts/mark-mcclain/
Last updated: 2026-09-20
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## Bio

Mark McClain has founded two identity companies. Waveset Technologies, started in 2000, was an early identity-management pioneer and was acquired by Sun Microsystems in 2003. He co-founded SailPoint in 2005 and serves as its CEO.

Profile built from public company and investor records.

## Where their work shows up

Provisioning answered "give this person an account." [Identity governance](https://startwithidentity.com/guides/fundamentals/what-is-iga/) asks the harder question, whether they should still have it, and turns the answer into evidence an auditor will accept. Access certification campaigns, segregation-of-duties policy, and role mining all trace to the governance wave [SailPoint](https://startwithidentity.com/vendors/iga/sailpoint/) led. See the [best IGA platforms](https://startwithidentity.com/rankings/best-iga-tools/) ranking and the [identity security guides](https://startwithidentity.com/guides/security/) for how the practice runs today.