Company adds New Customers including Drobo and WhitePages and Taps SuccessFactors Sales Executive to Capitalize on Overwhelming Demand
SAN FRANCISCO – March 30, 2011 – Okta, the leading on-demand identity and access management service, today announced the addition of several new customers, including AppDynamics, Drobo, Farm Credit Services of Mid-America, Rypple, and WhitePages. Okta also announced the appointment of Perry Germain as Vice President of Sales. Germain brings more than 15 years of high technology and SaaS experience to the company, most recently from SuccessFactors, and will lead the company’s sales efforts.
“The market demand this year has outpaced our initial expectations, and we are thrilled to have the opportunity to work with such great companies,” said Todd McKinnon, CEO, Okta. “With this increase in demand, we needed a senior executive who really understands the needs of small and midmarket customers and how to help them address the security and management challenges they face when deploying their cloud applications. I am very pleased to have Perry join the team and look forward to his leadership as we accelerate our sales strategy.”
WhitePages, the leading provider of contact information for people and businesses on the Internet and mobile phones, and Drobo, Inc., the maker of award-winning storage products that combine data protection, affordable capacity and ease-of-use, are just two of the recent cus