Semperis is an enterprise identity protection company that enables organizations to quickly recover from accidental or malicious changes and disasters that compromise Active Directory, on-premises and on cloud. Our Directory Services Protection Platform™ provides enterprises with the capabilities to automatically restore an entire Active Directory forest, quickly recover thousands of objects or a single crucial attribute, and instantly revert to a previous Active Directory state. Guy Teverovsky (our CTO), Matan Liberman (our VP of R&D), and I founded Semperis in 2013. Guy served as a lead for identity and access management at Microsoft, and we met when we were both working on a project to implement an Active Directory Disaster Recovery solution at a large bank. We saw the need to automate the Disaster Recovery process and thus, Semperis was born.
I am the CEO of Semperis. I used to work in the IT department at large enterprises, both as an internal employee and as a consultant, so what I enjoy most about my role is knowing that our company helps IT teams in their identity protection challenges, especially with all of the cyberattacks we are seeing in the news these days. I also appreciate the speed of innovation at Semperis. Disaster Recovery is a term that makes most IT teams groan because it's traditionally been a long and complex process, so to be able to take the pain out of that process makes me feel like we have done our job.
Our biggest challenge at the moment is gaining market share and raising awareness of the value that Semperis brings to large enterprises. There is a better and simpler way to protect your enterprise Active Directory, and we've got it. 2017 was an exciting year where Fortune 100 companies and government agencies became early adopters of our products, and we experienced triple-digit sales growth. This year we are focusing on building greater awareness of our brand and continued expansion and growth.
If I could go back in time, I would have started the entrepreneur journey at an earlier age. It's a bit daunting to leave the corporate world and work on a startup, but it's been an incredibly exciting and rewarding journey. I wish I could go back and tell the younger me to go for it. That being said, better late than never! And right now is a very interesting time to be working on solutions that help enterprises protect their IT environments.