Ivan Melia

Senior Director of Product Marketing, is a strategic leader who translates complex technology into clear, business-focused results. As a Senior Director of Product Marketing at StrongDM and a twenty-year veteran of the tech industry across organizations such as Palo Alto Networks and Cisco, he has a proven track record of successfully leading products from incubation to market scale. Ivan is passionate about creating a concise, engaging story that directly impacts the bottom line, using deep expertise in product management, sales enablement, and high-growth areas like cloud security.

StrongDM has been featured in Forbes, The New Stack, VentureBeat, DevOps.com, TechCrunch, and Fortune.

Expertise

Security, Access, Privileged Access Management

Education

École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, HEC Lausanne - The Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Lausanne, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Chalmers University of Technology, University of Belgrade

Latest blog posts from Ivan

The End of “Verify Once, Trust Forever”

The modern cloud is fast, dynamic, and complex. But legacy security tools can’t keep up. As containers and ephemeral resources constantly change, and access requests surge, security teams are left scrambling. Entitlements pile up, visibility fades, and audits become a nightmare.

Managing Access Drift: Introducing Entitlement Visibility, Resource Discovery, and JIT for Microsoft Cloud

Why Legacy PAM Fails in the Cloud (And the Cloud-Native Fix)

Legacy PAM stalls cloud adoption with cost, complexity, and risk. Discover the cloud-native fix: just-in-time access with StrongDM.