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Meet the Founders
Our technical team has a long history in corporate security, integration and APIs. They have been designing, developing and deploying best of breed Web application firewalls, IAM and Web SSO solutions, XML/SOA gateways as well as API Management solutions for the last 15 years. Together, they bring a wealth of expertise to the 42Crunch platform.
Jacques Declas
CEO and Co-founder
Jacques Declas, founder and CEO of 42 Crunch, is an entrepreneur with more than 20 years in the Enterprise Software industry and a record of scaling international sales team. He has an extensive knowledge of the API Security market having served in senior VP roles in Forum Systems, Vordel (acquired by Axway) and Intel.
During his career Jacques has built worldwide partnership with Software vendors such as Computer Associates, Oracle and Microsoft and leading consulting firms such as Accenture, Atos and CSC.
Jacques holds a bachelor of Financial Management and European Business Law.
Isabelle Mauny
Field CTO and Co-founder
Isabelle Mauny, co-founder and CTO of 42Crunch spent most of her career at IBM, across a variety of technical roles, at the European level. She was part of the IBM WebSphere Strategy board and played a key role in the deployment in Europe of flagship products such as the WebSphere Application Server or DataPower appliances.
During her time at IBM, she worked with the largest organisations both as a solutions architect and services professional. In 2009, she joined Vordel (acquired by Axway) as head of product management to then take the responsibility of the entire WSO2 portfolio as VP of Product Strategy in 2012.
Isabelle is passionate about delivering customer-focused solutions and evangelizing the community about them. She has authored multiple books and is a regular speaker at technical conferences.
Philippe Leothaud
CTO and Co-founder
Philippe Leothaud has over 20 years of experience in Identity Management, application security and integration.
He spent 8 years at BeeWare (now acquired by DenyAll) as CTO of a company focusing on Web Application Firewall, Web SSO and Web Access Management, and 6 years at Vordel (now acquired by Axway) as Principal Architect for API Management and API security.
Philippe is a co-founder of 42Crunch and is now specializing in securing API infrastructures, using/extending existing tools and standards (OpenAPI, OAuth, OpenID Connect, JOSE) and creating new ones.
Our Design Manifesto
Secure by design, trust no-one.
> Declared Security
API Security setup is declared, not manual
> Pre-defined Policies
Our domain knowledge and standards are available as pre-defined policies
> Proactive Control
Security teams are in control
> Adaptive Security
Security is adapted to the risk involved
> Security as Code
Security Infrastructure is delivered as code
> DevSecOps Ready
Communication platform across all roles involved
Industry Recognition
42Crunch has been recognized by some of the industries top analysts as a leader.
42Crunch has been recognized by Gartner as a key vendor in both the API Security: What You Need to Do to Protect Your APIs and Hype Cycle for Application Security 2019 reports.
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Aite Group gave 42Crunch 5 out of 5 stars in 10 different categories in their report: The Gathering Storm: Securing the API Attack Surface With 42Crunch.
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KuppingerCole has named 42Crunch a Leader in categories for Product and Innovation in KuppingerCole API Management and Security Leadership Compass 2019.
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Locations
42Crunch has offices located worldwide
San Francisco
95 Third Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94193
Ireland
5 Georges Dock
Dublin 1, Ireland
England
71-75 Shelton Street, WC2h 9JQ
London, England
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Developer-first solution for delivering API security as code.
