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Ivan Rahman

Ivan Rahman

Founder & CEO building machine identity security, product leader

avistar
Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Joined January 2025
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Northwestern Mutual Leadership
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Summary

Product leader who moves between enterprise innovation and startups: Ivan led product and design teams at Northwestern Mutual—running internal startups, shipping design systems, and bringing in collaboration tools—and has co‑founded startups too. He mixes hands‑on product work with team building and design thinking. northwesternmutual+2
Founder & CEO building tools to manage machine identity risk: At Avistar.AI, Ivan focuses on finding, scoring, and fixing risks from service accounts, API keys, and agentic AI, and explaining the financial impact to execs and boards. avistar+1
Community-focused mentor and ecosystem builder: Ivan mentors founders, works with local founder showcases and tech programs, and helps build entrepreneurial pipelines in Milwaukee and nearby areas. mkestartup+1
Cross-disciplinary background in design, marketing, and engineering: Ivan's experience spans digital marketing, web development, product design, and software engineering, so he can work across technical and non-technical teams to ship customer-focused products. webflow+1

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Personal resume / bio (PDF)

January 1, 2021

Full resume and bio covering product and design leadership, community work, and education.

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Adapting to Our New Normal: An Innovative Mindset Helps

April 1, 2020

A blog post about how collaborative tools and an experimental mindset helped teams adapt to remote work and scale collaboration.

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Hobbies

Community-building, mentoring founders, and getting involved in the local tech scene (FOR‑M, MKE Tech Hub, Summerfest Tech). mkestartup+1

Public speaking and running workshops for founders and product teams. summerfest-tech