Eric Kelleher

Senior Vice President, Customer First

In his role as Senior Vice President, Customer First for Okta, Eric is responsible for leading and accelerating teams and programs that deliver on Okta’s corporate value Love Our Customers. Eric has spent the last 25+ years leading software companies through growth. He’s served over 20 years in various customer-centric leadership roles at SaaS companies, including 11 years with Salesforce.com, where he learned from and helped shape their playbook for cultivating a wildly successful enterprise subscriber base.

Eric earned a B.S. in Economics and Computer Science from Georgetown University, and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford.

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