Eric Kelleher

Chief Customer Officer

Eric Kelleher serves as Okta’s Chief Customer Officer. In his role, he is responsible for leading our Customer First and Marketing teams, who together ensure we consistently deliver on our #1 corporate value: Love Our Customers. Eric’s teams are responsible for building an incredible brand, providing an unmatched customer experience, and ensuring customers win with Okta and grow with us for a lifetime.

Eric has spent over 25 years leading software companies through growth, and has led SaaS customer teams for more than 20 years. During his 11 years at Salesforce.com, he helped shape the SaaS playbook for cultivating a successful enterprise subscriber base, and helped grow from $50M to $4B in revenue. He also spent 2 years at LinkedIn where he built their first Customer Success organization, growing success for their $2B Talent Solutions business. In his 6+ years at Okta, he has helped grow the company from $150M to over $1.8B in revenue.

Eric has a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Economics from Georgetown University and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from Stanford.

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