Patrick Parker is the founder and CEO of EmpowerID, founded in June of 2004. Mr. Parker studied the intersection of role-based access control and workflow automation after extensive leadership in the development of innovative SharePoint web parts to securely delegate administration and self-service, large-scale ecommerce solutions, as well as workflow solutions for regulatory compliance. The lack of integration between these two disciplines was identified as an urgent market need and led to assembling the development team that produced EmpowerID, an innovative Business Process Automation (BPA) approach to Identity Management for heterogeneous networks. Mr. Parker holds an MBA from The Ohio State University, an MS in Biology from Pennsylvania State University, and a BS in Zoology from Ohio University.