Summary
Erik Wahlström is a seasoned identity and access management leader with 11 years in senior research and product roles and a career spanning hands‑on engineering to strategic leadership. Now VP and Key Initiative Leader for GTP IAM at Gartner, he combines deep technical expertise in authentication, SSO, PKI and endpoint protection with market‑facing research that shapes enterprise IAM strategy. Previously he led product and development teams at PortWise and Nexus following entrepreneurial stints founding small consultancies, giving him a rare blend of vendor, consultancy and analyst perspectives. Based in Stockholm and educated at KTH, he is known for translating complex security protocols into practical, auditable implementations and for guiding CIOs and vendors through technology adoption decisions.
11 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
1999, Computer, 1999, Computer at KTH Royal Institute of Technology