Okta’s 2020 Tech Up-and-Comers

Meet the next generation of leaders driving today’s most innovative technology.

These are the people behind your favorite apps, services, and software, and they’re driving innovation by pushing past traditional perimeters. The following list of innovators are the up-and-coming leaders in product management, IT, development, and security; and they’re creating lasting impact.

The winners

Arup Chakrabarti

Arup Chakrabarti
Senior Director, Engineering
PagerDuty

Sheryl Soo

Sheryl Soo
Senior Director, Product Design
Hootsuite

Ellie Fields

Ellie Fields
Vice President, Product Development
Tableau Software

Scott Willeke

Scott Willeke
Director, Product Management
Smartsheet

Brad Menezes

Brad Menezes
Director, Product Management 
Datadog

Mike Chan

Mike Chan
Vice President, Engineering
Envoy

Virginia Murdoch

Virginia Murdoch
Director, Product - Engagement
Culture Amp

Jesse Chor

Jesse Chor
Head of Mobile Engineering
Splunk

Laura Marino

Laura Marino
Senior Vice President, Product
Lever

Jocey Karlan

Jocey Karlan
Product Lead, New Customer Experience
Asana

How were these winners selected?

In our second-annual Tech Up-and-Comers awards program, we surveyed the most current top 200 apps from the Okta Integration Network—which includes over 6,500 integrations with cloud, mobile and web apps, and IT infrastructure providers. From this list, we asked the tech leaders driving product growth to submit to this year’s program. These submissions were evaluated and scored by a judging committee that considered each nominee’s experience, innovation, business impact, and problem-solving skills on a 1-5 scale. The ranking was determined by the cumulative final scores. Judges include: Hector Aguilar, President of Technology at Okta; J.R. Jasperson, Chief Architect at Twilio Inc.; and Paayal Zaveri, Senior Tech Reporter at Business Insider.