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Bitwarden equips enterprises and individuals with the power to securely manage and share sensitive information online with trusted open source security solutions. With Password Manager for everyone, users can easily manage their entire online identity anywhere. Bitwarden Secrets Manager and Passwordless.dev enhance developer secrets security and streamline passkey development for end users and workforce authentication. Founded in 2016, Bitwarden serves tens of thousands of businesses and millions of users worldwide. The company is headquartered in Santa Barbara, California. Learn more at bitwarden.com.

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Bitwarden is a trusted security leader for millions of users worldwide, empowering enterprises, developers, and individuals to securely manage and share sensitive information anywhere. Bitwarden makes it easy for all users to extend robust security across their devices with password management, secrets management, and passwordless and passkey innovations.

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Bitwarden empowers everyone to securely manage online identities and share sensitive information online with trusted security solutions for passwords, secrets, and passkey management.

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Bitwarden empowers everyone with trusted security solutions to manage sensitive information online. Explore Password Manager, Secrets Manager, and passkey innovations.

Bitwarden Password Manager

Bitwarden Password Manager for organizations and individuals requiring password security to reduce the risk of breaches, boost productivity, and achieve compliance.

Bitwarden Secrets Manager

Bitwarden Secrets Manager for developers and DevOps teams to securely centralize and manage machine credentials across the development lifecycle.

Bitwarden Passwordless.dev

Bitwarden Passwordless.dev for developers building FIDO2 WebAuthn-based passkey authentication for websites and applications.

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Michael Crandell, CEO

Michael Crandell is the chief executive officer at Bitwarden, driving overall company strategy and growth. Before Bitwarden, Michael was the CEO and co-founder of RightScale where he led the vision and direction for the company as a cloud management platform during the first decade of cloud computing. He grew the company to 250 employees and a successful exit to Flexera in 2018. Prior to RightScale, Michael served as chief executive officer at several Internet software-as-a-service (SaaS) companies and as vice president of software and executive vice president at eFax.com, where he was part of the executive team that took the company public. Michael received his bachelor’s degree from Stanford University and completed graduate studies at Harvard University. He began his career as a software engineer, self-taught, coding in assembly language.

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Gary Orenstein, CCO

Gary Orenstein is the chief customer officer at Bitwarden, leading the go to market efforts across customer success, marketing, and sales. Before Bitwarden, Gary served in executive marketing and product roles at enterprise infrastructure companies Yellowbrick Data and SingleStore, and flash memory pioneer Fusion-io, which went public during his tenure there. Earlier in his career, he led marketing at Compellent, which after its IPO, was acquired by Dell. Gary holds a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College and a master’s in business administration from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Anders Aberg, Director of Passwordless

Anders Åberg is the Director of Passwordless at Bitwarden, where he leads the company's work on passkeys and passwordless authentication. He brings over a decade of engineering and leadership experience to this role. Anders is a member of the W3C and FIDO Alliance working groups, contributing his expertise in areas such as passkeys, open source, technology and code, and developer experience.

Prior to Bitwarden, Anders founded passwordless.dev, which was later acquired by the company. As an experienced engineer and former startup founder, he brings a deep technical background and leadership skills to his current role, driving innovation in the passwordless authentication space. Anders is passionate about improving security and developer experience through open standards and modern authentication methods. He is also a maintainer of several open source projects and member of the .net foundation.

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Matt Bishop, Principal Architect

Matt Bishop is the principal architect at Bitwarden, investing in technology initiatives for core company operations, security, deployment, and infrastructure. Before Bitwarden, Matt was a senior engineering leader at Olo, where he managed online and mobile ordering software delivery. Olo grew from 150 to over 700 employees and went public during his time there. Before Olo, he was the CTO and co-founder of iMobile3, where he managed technology strategy for 10 years before the company was acquired by TSYS, now Global Payments. Matt holds a bachelor’s degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology.

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The Bitwarden logo has two approved compositions: horizontal and vertical. When using the Bitwarden logo, the primary and preferred composition will be the horizontal lockup. In some cases, when the horizontal logo doesn’t work, a vertical lockup can be used for those unique needs.

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“Bitwarden provides one of the best free password managers on the market.” - CNBC

“The book of Bitwarden: How the best free password manager is fending off tech giants.” - FastCompany

“‘If a password is frequently reused or easy to guess, bad actors can more easily gain access to email, banking and social media accounts, resulting in identity theft and financial loss,’ says Gary Orenstein of Bitwarden, a popular password manager.” - Reader’s Digest 

“I picked Bitwarden as the best overall open source password manager for its high level mix of security, ease of use and reliability. It regularly undergoes independent security audits and has a sterling reputation among its current users. Whether you have a big or small team, Bitwarden will serve you well.” - TechRepublic

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