Executive Team
The Okta team has built, deployed, and supported market leading, on-demand and enterprise software from companies including Salesforce.com, SuccessFactors, PeopleSoft, Microsoft, Sun, and HP.
Todd McKinnon
CEO & Co-Founder
Todd's experience focuses on software development and design of web-scale services.
Todd founded Okta in 2009. From 2003 to 2009, Todd served as SVP of Engineering at salesforce.com, responsible for engineering, user interface design, documentation, and localization teams. He grew the team grew from 15 to over 250 engineers. In this capacity, Todd was responsible for building the salesforce.com architecture that grew support from 2M to 200M transactions per day.
In addition, under his leadership, salesforce.com expanded from a single product around sales automation to become the market leader around service and support services, marketing automation, mobile platform, the creation of the industry’s first application exchange, and the establishment of the platform as a service model.
In 2005, Todd’s team introduced AppExchange, the industry’s first open exchange for cloud computing applications built for the salesforce.com community and delivered by partners or by third-party developers, which users can purchase and add to their salesforce.com environment. It currently supports 900 applications available from over 450 independent software vendors.
In 2007, his team announced Force.com, the industry’s first platform-as-a-service product, allowing external developers to create add-on applications that integrate into salesforce.com products and hosted on salesforce.com's infrastructure.
Prior to Salesforce.com, Todd worked at PeopleSoft in the PeopleTools group building the underlying platform for the PeopleSoft applications. He worked as an engineer, technical lead and engineering manager for various areas of the product.
Todd earned a BS in Business from Brigham Young University and an MS in Computer Science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo.
Todd currently serves on the Board of Directors of Family House, a not-for-profit organization providing temporary housing to families of seriously ill children receiving treatment at the University of California San Francisco Children's Hospital.
Frederic Kerrest
Vice President, Operations & Co-Founder
Frederic is passionate about enterprise technology and has spent the last 15 years helping companies improve their operations by embracing software solutions. In early 2009, Frederic joined Todd to start Okta with the vision of empowering enterprise customers to realize the benefits of their web-based applications.
Prior to co-founding Okta, Frederic worked at Hummer Winblad Venture Partners, where he evaluated enterprise software investment opportunities and worked with existing portfolio companies to strengthen their offerings and distribution strategies.
From 2002 to 2007, he worked at Salesforce.com in a variety of Sales and Business Development roles, where he started and built the Latin America sales organization and was responsible for creating the first ever software-as-a-service OEM/Reseller and mobile distribution channels. Frederic helped Salesforce.com grow from $30M to $750M+ in sales while personally delivering over $20M in subscriber revenue, and was a two-time Peak Performer Sales Award recipient.
Prior to Salesforce.com, Frederic worked in a number of enterprise software development and management roles, where he wrote enterprise software for Sun Microsystems and Applied Materials, and co-founded and served as director of technology at an award-winning high-tech consulting firm in Latin America.
Frederic earned a BS in Computer Science from Stanford University and an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Innovation from the MIT Sloan School of Management where he was the 2008 MIT Patrick J. McGovern, Jr. Entrepreneurship Award recipient.Frederic is passionate about enterprise technology and has spent the last 15 years helping companies improve their operations by embracing software solutions. In early 2009, Frederic joined Todd to start Okta with the vision of empowering enterprise customers to realize the benefits of their web-based applications.
Eric Berg
Vice President, Products
Eric is a seasoned product and marketing leader with over 18 years of experience across engineering, marketing and business development. He has successfully driven product, business, and marketing for both early stage SaaS companies and high growth software businesses within larger organizations.
Eric joined Okta in early 2010 to lead product and marketing efforts to build an easy to use, enterprise class product, effectively position Okta in the market, and execute on a marketing strategy to support rapid customer acquisition.
Most recently Eric was the VP of Product Management and Marketing for Apptio, the market leading SaaS provider of IT Financial Management Solutions. As the first business hire, Eric drove inbound product strategy and outbound go to market efforts to define the product, acquire marquee enterprise customers, position the company as the leading vendor of IT Financial Management software, and deliver the sales enablement, lead gen, PR, and AR efforts necessary to rapidly ramp revenue.
Prior to Apptio Eric spent 6 years at Microsoft where he most recently built and ran the product management and marketing organization for Microsoft's System Center family of systems management products. There he played a key role in growing revenue and share to surpass CA and become the fourth largest systems management business in the world. Earlier Eric worked in the Windows Server business where he was responsible for the cross company product and marketing strategy for Microsoft's Dynamic Systems Initiative. Before Microsoft Eric held a variety of engineering, marketing and business development roles at Intel and Ensim, an NEA backed infrastructure software company.
Eric earned a BS in Electrical Engineering from University of Washington and an MBA from The Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.
Roger Goulart
Vice President, Business Development & Strategic Accounts
Roger is a software industry veteran with over 20 years of Sales, Alliance, Business Development, Support and Professional Services management experience. He has a proven track record of helping leading SaaS and Software companies build meaningful, long-lasting relationships with customers and partners by helping them overcome the challenges that they face in deploying cloud services.
Roger joined Okta in early 2010 to help build a world class sales and partner organization and ensure that Okta customers are happy and successful.
For the past eight years, Roger helped two major Software-as-a-Service companies, SuccessFactors and Salesforce.com, grow from start-ups to successful public companies. From late 2004 through 2009, Roger was responsible for driving all partnership, alliance, channel and business development at SuccessFactors. He helped grow SuccessFactors from $10M to over $150M in revenue. From 2002 to 2004, Roger was VP of Alliances at Salesforce.com, where he created many of the company's early partnerships and programs and helped grow the company from $7M in revenue to a public company with over $85M in revenue.
Previously, Roger was a key member of the senior management team at BroadVision, where he held various positions, including Vice President of Worldwide Alliances, Vice President of Western Sales and Senior Vice President of Global Services and Alliances. In this position, he was responsible for over 350 services, support and alliance personnel and drove over 65% of the company's revenue. Roger started his career in product and program management at Hewlett-Packard and Amdahl.
Roger earned both a BS and an MBA from Santa Clara University.
Adam Aarons
Senior Vice President, World Wide Sales
Adam brings more than 15 years of enterprise software sales experience. Prior to joining Okta, he served as Area Vice President of sales for BMC Software from May 2008 to January 2012; during which revenues under his responsibility increased more than 300%.
Adam led the #1 team in sales of software as a service solutions in FY 2010 and FY 2011 at BMC. Adam joined BladeLogic in March of 2007 as a Vice President of Sales; BladeLogic delivered an initial public offering in October of 2007 and was then bought by BMC Software for more than $800 million in April of 2008. Adam has served as a Vice President of Sales at OpenPages where he built the western region into the #1 Region globally; producing over $15 million in annual revenue. Adam served as Director of WW Sales for Arena Solutions, a SaaS company where he built the customer base to from less than 30 to over 300, and with an annual re-occurring revenue model from $250 thousand to $4 Million. As a Global Accounts Manager for Agile Software, Adam was responsible for closing over $18 million in revenues and achieved 700% of quota in in FY 2000. Prior to Agile, Adam was a Sales Representative at PTC where he was a consistent top revenue producer and over-achiever. With deep experience in sales and deployment of cloud infrastructure, SaaS and enterprise solutions, his goal is to build a world class sales team.
Adam has a Bachelor of Science from the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.
Hector Aguilar
Vice President, Engineering
Hector has over 16 years of networking, security, and software development experience. Before joining Okta, Hector was CTO and VP of Software Development at ArcSight, an HP Company, where he joined from its inception and until its dramatic growth and acquisition by HP.
Before ArcSight, Hector held several engineering and operations management positions in large communications companies and technology startups. Hector holds several US patents in networking, security and software architecture, a Masters in Computer Science with a Minor in Network Security and a Bachelors Degree in Electronic Systems and Engineering.
Hector joined Okta to run engineering and technology and to continue his outstanding record of delivering high-quality, robust and scalable products to support the largest organizations in the planet.
Board of Directors
Todd McKinnon
CEO & Co-Founder
Okta, Inc.
Frederic Kerrest
Vice President, Operations & Co-Founder
Okta, Inc.
Ben Horowitz
General Partner
Andreessen Horowitz
Aneel Bhusri
Co-Founder, Co-CEO
Workday, Inc.
