Todd McKinnon

CEO and Co-Founder

Todd McKinnon is the CEO and co-founder of Okta, the leading independent Identity provider, which he co-founded in 2009 with Frederic Kerrest. Under Todd’s leadership, Okta has transformed the way millions of people access the digital world and put Identity at the forefront of security and business growth.

Todd’s experience as a leader and technology visionary spans more than 25 years, with deep roots in enterprise software and cloud transformation. Prior to Okta, he held leadership roles at Salesforce and PeopleSoft.

Todd earned his bachelor’s degree in management and information systems from Brigham Young University and his master’s in computer science from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo. He is a husband and father, an advocate for equality and inclusion, an exercise addict, and a mountain bike enthusiast.

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Oktane21: Unite

Oktane21 marks our second all-virtual Oktane conference, and just over a year since we’ve seen our employees, customers, and partners in person. While we’re eager to safely gather in-person again someday soon, we’re also excited to bring you our most creative virtual Oktane experience yet. This year, we’ve unveiled a new centerpiece for the event:…

Okta + Auth0: Powering Identity for the Internet

Okta’s vision is to safely enable everyone to use any technology. To achieve this ambitious mission, we’ve been investing heavily in customer identity — enabling organizations to build secure customer experiences — and transitioning from delivering products to building a true platform to address every identity use case. Today, we're taking a…

State of Digital Trust: How the Virtual Economy Changed Consumer Behavior

Over the past year, people around the world have moved online and now conduct most of their daily lives digitally — from classes to grocery shopping; from doctor appointments to holiday celebrations. These digital shifts have required increased trust from all of us. Employees and employers have had to trust each other to work securely and…

Businesses at Work 2021: Driving the Digital Economy Forward

Today, we announced the findings of our seventh annual Businesses at Work report, examining how organizations and people worked in a year of near-constant change. When we released last year’s report at the beginning of 2020, we never imagined the critical role technology would play as organizations adapted to the challenges of a global pandemic…

Okta Showcase 2020: The Economy Runs on Identity

We’re excited to bring to you our second Okta Showcase, our annual fall event where we give you an inside look at how we’re innovating at Okta. Constant change means that we’re all constantly adapting, and so we wanted to bring you something new today: Okta Showcase as a news show. We hope the format is enjoyable (especially since it took us two…

Every Vote Matters: Access Registration Resources Through Okta

Voter turnout has long been a problem in the United States. Our political participation trails far behind other developed countries. An estimated 93 million eligible voters did not vote in the 2012 presidential election, and almost 92 million eligible Americans did not turnout to vote in the 2016 presidential race. As the fight against COVID-19…

Our Commitment to Investing in our Black Colleagues and Communities

This afternoon, Todd sent the email below to all Okta employees, and wanted to share it with our customers and partners here. ++ Hi Everyone, In the wake of recent racial injustice and tragic violence, and the conversations they continue to spark throughout the company, Freddy and I want to thank you for your open feedback and clear desire for…

Okta’s Commitment to Social and Environmental Responsibility

At Okta, we live by our core values: love our customers, act with integrity, never stop innovating, be transparent, and empower our people. We put these into practice with our co-founder led weekly All Hands meetings and by giving back to our communities — we took the 1% Pledge prior to our IPO, offer frequent employee volunteering opportunities,…

Businesses @ Work (from Home) 2020: Enabling phase one of remote work

The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic and global shelter-in-place orders have created unprecedented challenges for businesses. Suddenly, remote work became a requirement for many businesses (and a luxury others, unfortunately, couldn’t afford), and we had to quickly figure out the best ways to stay productive, connected, and secure from our homes for…

Behind the Scenes: My Reflections on Creating Oktane20 Live

Last week, we hosted our eighth annual Oktane conference, but unlike in previous years, Oktane20 Live was a virtual event. Our theme, freedom, took on more meaning than we could have imagined as people tuned in from their homes across the world. In the opening keynote, I shared Okta’s product innovation, chatted with some of our incredible…