Okta Welcomes Susan St. Ledger as President, Worldwide Field Operations
September 25 2020 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Veteran Technology Executive to Lead Okta’s
Global Field Operations
Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent provider of
identity for the enterprise, welcomes Susan St. Ledger as president
of worldwide field operations. St. Ledger will join Okta’s
executive management team and report to Todd McKinnon, CEO and
co-founder. St. Ledger will start at Okta on February 1, 2021 and
Charles Race, Okta’s current president of worldwide field
operations who is retiring, will continue to lead worldwide field
operations until that date to ensure a smooth transition, as
announced during Okta’s FY21 Q1 earnings call.
“Okta’s platform is transforming how people access technology as
the role of identity rapidly expands,” said Todd McKinnon. “Susan
embodies world-class leadership, proven talent for scaling growth
and a customer-first mindset that will bring great value to the
world’s largest organizations as they turn to Okta for their
workforce and customer identity solutions. Susan will continue to
elevate and innovate our go-to-market and customer success
organizations. We’re excited to welcome Susan to the team.”
“Every organization in the world is transforming its business to
thrive in a digital world, and Okta’s platform is primed to solve
the challenges ahead of every CEO, every product and IT leader, and
every developer,” said Susan St. Ledger. “I share Okta’s vision to
enable any organization to use any technology, and look forward to
driving global scale, growth and innovation across the
company.”
About Susan St. Ledger St. Ledger brings to Okta nearly
three decades of experience building and transforming high-growth
software and cloud businesses. Most recently, she spent four and a
half years at Splunk as the president of worldwide field operations
where she built a SaaS, multi-product go-to-market organization and
helped grow the business from nearly $700 million in revenue to
almost $2.5 billion today. She spent more than 11 years at
Salesforce in a number of leadership positions, most recently as
chief revenue officer of Marketing Cloud. Before Salesforce, St.
Ledger had over a decade of success at Sun Microsystems, starting
as a systems engineer and leaving as vice president of a global
sales organization. St. Ledger started her career in several
technical jobs, including her first role out of college as a
software engineer at the National Security Agency.
About Okta Okta is the leading independent provider of
identity for the enterprise. The Okta Identity Cloud enables
organizations to securely connect the right people to the right
technologies at the right time. With over 6,500 pre-built
integrations to applications and infrastructure providers, Okta
customers can easily and securely use the best technologies for
their business. More than 8,950 organizations, including JetBlue,
Nordstrom, Slack, Teach for America and Twilio, trust Okta to help
protect the identities of their workforces and customers.
View source
version on businesswire.com: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200925005047/en/
Jenna Kozel press@okta.com
Okta (NASDAQ:OKTA)
Historical Stock Chart
From Mar 2024 to Apr 2024
Okta (NASDAQ:OKTA)
Historical Stock Chart
From Apr 2023 to Apr 2024