Hanno Ekdahl

Hanno is the founder of Idenhaus, which has clients in financial services, CPG, healthcare, retail, manufacturing and local and federal governments. Hanno and the Idenhaus team excel at helping organizations design and implement effective Identity Management and Cybersecurity programs by focusing on the importance of leadership and the linkage between business strategy and the organization’s security goals.

Hanno began his career at Novell Consulting, initially working as a strategist and later as a services principal. His focus on generating meaningful and measurable client successes at Novell earned him the prestigious President’s Award, an honor reserved for the top 2% of performers in the company.

Prior to Idenhaus, Hanno was the co-founder of a management consulting firm where he received the U.S Army Commander’s Award for Public Service in recognition of his efforts that revolutionized and transformed the Army’s security clearance process. As a result of this project, the Army was able to reduce the time required to obtain a security clearance by 80% via a centralized, standardized and automated process for these clearance requests.

Hanno received his Masters in International Business from the Moore School of Business and an undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill. He was also a Fulbright Scholar at ETH Zurich, one of the world’s top 5 universities in engineering, science and technology.