iPass was founded in January 1996 by Chris Moore, Moore was later replaced by Michael H. Mansouri, who took the position of chairman, President and CEO in 1999, serving until 2001. Kenneth Denman succeeded Mansouri as president and CEO in 2001, later assuming the position of chairman in 2003. In July 2003, the firm successfully issued its IPO, raising over $100 million. In 2004, the firm launched a policy orchestration initiative to integrate patch management, assessment and remediation of remote and mobile computers into its connectivity platform. In pursuing this initiative, iPass acquired two companies in 2004:
Safe3w, which developed patented dynamic device “fingerprinting” technology, and
Mobile Automation, which specialized in mobile device management. Two years later, iPass acquired GoRemote Internet Communications, a former rival in the corporate remote access market. In the midst of these acquisitions, iPass recorded year-end revenue growth, despite declining revenues from the company's traditional dial-up business. Overall, total revenues grew to $192 million by the end of 2007. Evan Kaplan succeeded Denman as CEO and President in 2008. During Kaplan's tenure, the firm began to build a service delivery platform for its new enterprise mobility services. By January 2010, the company delivered the first version of its cloud-based platform, iPass Open Mobile. 2015 there were changes in the firm's executive team, beginning with the appointment of Gary Griffiths to the position of CEO and President. Griffiths and his newly appointed Chief Commercial Officer, Patricia Hume, pursued a new growth strategy for mobile services, launching iPass Unlimited, a per-user, per-month, fixed fee subscription for unlimited Wi-Fi usage. The firm also expanded its network of global hotspots by 2015 from 18 million to 50 million. In November 2015, the firm announced iPass SmartConnect. In February 2019,
Pareteum closed its acquisition of iPass in an all-stock transaction. == Products and services ==