Tyler Shields

Tyler Shields is a leading expert on mobile and application security topics, having researched a diverse set of topics including creating a BYOD policy, the mobile security stack, the impact of mobile malware on privacy, reverse engineering binary applications, rootkits and anti-debugging technologies, and, most recently, a programmatic approach to securing your mobile application ecosystem. Tyler focuses his research time and energy around both corporate business strategy and the technologies used in securing the rapidly converging mobile and application threat landscape. He is based in Raleigh, N.C.Previous Work ExperienceBefore joining Forrester, Tyler was product owner and manager for mobile solutions at Veracode.

He was responsible for or contributed to global go-to-market strategy, mergers and acquisitions, technology due diligence, competitive intelligence, and product research and design. Previously, he was a security consultant for the boutique consulting firm @Stake, which was acquired by Symantec in 2006. In that role, he assessed the security of Fortune 500 customers, financial firms, educational institutions, and segments of the US government.EducationTyler has a bachelor's degree in information technology from Rochester Institute of Technology, a master's degree in computer science from James Madison University, and an MBA from the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina.

David Baker

David Baker is the Chief Security Officer at Okta. As CSO, David is responsible for the security of Okta’s service, helping the company focus on customer success by solving the security challenges enterprises face as they evolve operations into the cloud.Prior to Okta, David served as the Vice President of Services at IOActive, the Security Architect at Webex Communications, and a Network Engineer at Loudcloud. David also has experience as a research scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, bringing to Okta over 15 years of experience in enterprise data security, information technology and government computer research industries.David earned his bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering at California State Polytechnic University-Pomona and his master’s degree in aeronautical engineering at California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo. David also enjoys competitive cycling and running.

Clark Ardern

Clark Ardern is responsible for the creation and maintenance of Jones-Lang LaSalle's global technology strategy in support of revenue generating, client facing web and mobile applications and core productivity applications and services for JLL employees, clients, and partners.  Interface with business and technical teams around the world to enable the execution of global technology strategies at the regional and country level.  Also accountable for the firm’s Information Security and Digital Risk Management strategy and operations.

Clark is a technology and business leader with fifteen years of experience in the Information Technology industry with specific focus in the application, security, and infrastructure architecture areas.

Mike LaTouf

Mike Latouf is Okta’s Director of Professional Services for the Central US and Eastern Canada. Mike joined Okta in April of 2012 with over 20 years of experience in enterprise software with an emphasis on Identity and Access Management. His past experience has been focused on growing and leading professional services teams as well as architecting, scoping and implementing solutions at companies such as Oracle, Sun Microsystems, Netscape and EDS.

Mike and his team are focused on ensuring our customers are wildly successful with the Okta service from the initial planning and deployment stages through long term operations. Customer Success is the core focus of the Professional Services team and Mike is passionate about partnering with our customers to make this happen.

Outside of Okta, he enjoys participating in the many activities his wife and three daughters are involved with in the Metro Detroit area.  Mike is an active runner and enjoys living near the Great Lakes in Michigan.

Sam Dresser

I started my professional career working for Apple Retail, while finishing up my undergraduate music degree at DePaul University in Chicago. While I initially started in sales at Apple, I quickly moved to technical support. Throughout my over nine years of time at Apple, most of my time was spent managing technical support teams at various stores, and delivering training for "Geniuses" from various stores across the globe. I started at School of Rock in January of 2013 overseeing the Help Desk and IT systems training. Today, as IT Director, I help to oversee the IT team and am responsible for the selection, implementation, training, and support of all the technology systems that our schools use.

Adam Steed

Working with hundreds of companies over the years Adam Steed has found common threads that we all can learn from. Being in the industry for over 15 years is just the right amount of time to see history repeat its self. Possessing a Masters in Information Technology and a CISSP creates just enough credibility in the industry to not be taken a complete fool at first glance (that comes later).

Clint Sorensen

Clint has worked in the industry for +10 years coming from a traditional Network Administrator background.  He currently works at Overstock.com in their management team and is tasked with solving hard problems and making new ideas into reality. Clint is a glutton for punishment and shows it by actively participating in running races including relays and marathons.  He also liked to chase four kids around the soccer field and dance recitals.

Chris Niggel

As the lead Cloud Security & IAM resource for security at LinkedIn, Chris has spent the last 5 years enabling adoption of cloud technology as LinkedIn grew from 500 employees to over 5,000.   Previously, Chris worked as an Enterprise Content Management consultant for a Documentum partner, designing, developing, and delivering solutions for customers such as Nestle, Cisco, AMD, Telus, and the US Department of Defense. When he’s not writing security policy, he teaches Mountaineering, Search & Rescue, and outdoor survival for the Tahoe Backcountry Ski Patrol in Truckee, California.

Charles Nwatu

Charles joined LinkedIn from the US Department of Defense in 2013.  He now manages the Incident Response team, and drives threat detection and response policy for cloud applications.  Previously, Charles worked as a security analyst for the US Department of Defense, developing perimeter security tools.Charles also serves as a Co-Chair on the Fellows Program Council at Code2040, a nonprofit organization dedicated to closing the skills gap and opportunity divide in engineering and technology in the United States. CODE2040 provides opportunities, networks, and support for top minority engineering talent to ensure their leadership in the innovation economy.

Shawn Drape

Shawn Drape is an Application Developer for Delta Hotels and Resorts. For the past 5 years he has been championing a user-centric design philosophy to IT services, building SSO integrations into SaaS Cloud apps and management tools that give end-users and HR managers the ability to be self sufficient. Founded in 1962 in Richmond, British Columbia, Delta Hotels has grown from a single 62-room motor inn to become Canada's leading first-class hotel management company. Today, they boast a diversified portfolio of over 40 city-centre, airport and resort properties, and distinguish ourselves as the brand of choice for discerning owners and guests, an exemplary employer to more than 7,000 people and an active corporate citizen.

Omar Keblawi

Omar Keblawi is an Enterprise Architect at Informatica Corporation, the world’s number one independent provider of data integration software.  He provides guidance to Informatica's business and technology leaders. Omar evaluates cloud vendors that the business is considering to adopt. He researches companies that will help simplify and make the enterprise more agile. He casts vision and influences strategy roadmaps for IT. Omar holds a CISSP certification and always takes security into consideration when architecting solutions.

Assaf Rappaport

Assaf Rappaport is co-founder and CEO at Adallom. Previously, Assaf worked at McKinsey & Company overseeing project strategy management in both Israel and Australia. Prior to McKinsey & Company, he served as a Captain and project manager in the Israeli Intelligence Corps. Assaf is a Talpiot military academy graduate, with an M.Sc. in Computer Science from the Technion, where he has been recognized by both Cisco and Intel for innovations in CDN.

Ed Sawma

Ed Sawma is Sr. Product Marketing Manager at Okta, focused on Microsoft integrations and identifying Okta use cases.  After starting his career in IT consulting, with a focus on system integration and security, Ed led product marketing globally for several mobile infrastructure, applications and services businesses at Motorola.  Prior to Okta, he worked on Microsoft’s IPTV platform.  Ed has a BS in Electrical Engineering and an MBA, both from Northwestern University.

Bob Stephan

Bob Stephan's experience includes 25 years in the world of IT. The journey began as field technician for large restaurant company, during my final 5 years with that organization I managed the technical services department. In that capacity oversaw a group of field technicians supporting well over 400 restaurants. My tenure the also included the selection and implementation of anew POS of sale system. After a stint with a finance company in an IT services management role, I switched gears and went to work with a consulting company as a developer. In my final assignment as a consultant I was for SMC, eventually accepting a position as an application developer. While as SMC I moved into a system integrator role, then took on the team lead role, eventually stepping up to manager of applications services.

Jeff Nester

Jeff is currently Okta's Cloud Enterprise Architect for the Central Region. In this role Jeff provides architectural recommendations for large complex Okta deployments.  He began his time at Okta as a Senior Technical Consultant, where he assisted some of Okta’s largest customers in their deployments. He comes with over three decades of experience in the computer software industry and more than 15 years experience in the Security space. Jeff has designed, architected and deployed security-based solutions for numerous customers ranging from commercial retail to the Department of Defense.

Indranil Sanyal

Indranil brings 20+ years of experience in multiplatform environments in several technology companies with special focus on cutting edge industry trends in security and identity management solutions, both in product development and IT arenas. During this phase, for about 15 years he has focused on the different aspects of enterprise and cloud identity management, bringing proactive solutions to security, identity and access control problems leveraging existing technologies and industry standards. Before joining SRI, he worked as the Identity Architect at NetApp for over five years, taking a fledgling user management tool suite to an enterprise-wide identity program with multiyear roadmaps. This included the automated workflow of user identity life cycle as well integrations with cloud. With his technical leadership, NetApp IT won the technology innovation award at the Oracle Open World 2010 for the web service based framework, integrating cloud vendors like Service-Now and Salesforce.com with the NetApp identity stack. Prior to that Indranil was the product architect of identity management tools suite at Oracle Corporation in Redwood City, CA, enhancing the identity integration framework within Oracle Fusion stack. Before that, as a tech lead in the iPlanet and Solaris 10 security groups in Sun Microsystems, he led the development of several directory services utilities. He has also led the identity architecture and deliverables at other companies like Intuit and Solectron (now Flextronics). He holds a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, India.

Harold Byun

IT leaders are seeking for ways to better enable employees in the new cloud and mobile world. At the same time, their information security requirements remain stringent. The good news is that these objectives don’t have to be at odds with each other. They can have the cake and eat it too. This session will highlight how Western Union successfully utilized technologies from Okta and Skyhigh together in flip Shadow IT from Concern to Opportunity, enabling their employees to use cloud services they needed without sacrificing data security and compliance. IT leaders from Western Union will share practical guidance on how visibility into cloud usage elucidated users’ needs, helped identify services that should be managed through Okta, and informed more intelligent security practices. Finally, they will also share how they are expanding Okta beyond corporate only services to offer worker’s convenience and improve their own corporate security profile.

Mike Bartholomy

Mike Bartholomy has nearly 15 years of experience in IT and information security and is currently responsible for Cloud Security and Identity and Access Management for Western Union. Prior to joining Western Union, Mike spent his career consulting to fortune 500 companies and working in professional services for cloud SaaS companies. Mike has a JD from Chicago-Kent College of Law and is passionate about the intersection of law and technology.

Krishna Narayanaswamy

Krishna has 24 years of experience in the areas of security and data networking and is an expert in deep packet inspection and behavioral anomaly detection technologies. Prior to Netskope, Krishna was a Distinguished Engineer in the Security business unit at Juniper Networks leading the next-generation firewall architecture. Before that, he was a co-founder and system architect at Top Layer Networks where he was instrumental in delivering multiple products in the areas of security and load balancing to the market. He has also held senior engineering roles at Fore Systems and Digital Equipment Corporation. He has been awarded 20 patents covering a broad set of technologies and has a dozen more pending patent applications. Krishna has spoken at many conferences including RSA conference, SynerComm, CloudSlam, CSA Summit, CSA Congress, and Government Innovation Center, and is a frequent contributor to Dark Reading and the Cloud Security Alliance blog.

Rajesh Ram 

Rajesh is a co-founder of Egnyte. He leads the product management and customer support teams. Rajesh's strength in defining, delivering and supporting software solutions was developed while at Oracle, KPMG consulting and Valdero Corporation. Rajesh holds a BS in Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology-Madras and received an MS in Industrial Engineering from the University of Minnesota.

Ryan Carlson

Ryan Carlson runs product marketing for Okta. Ryan’s been working in technology and startups for 15 years; prior to Okta, he ran product for smart building company Redwood Systems, and held leadership roles at semiconductor companies Xilinx, Velio and Cypress. He has an MBA from Columbia University and a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Colorado.

Cody Suders

Experienced IT professional with a passion for solving difficult problems and automating processes.  I started my career as a help desk technician and worked my way up through the ranks in IT infrastructure.  I first encountered Okta as a customer, at Vera Bradley, where my team and I implemented the second Workday driven IT provisioning that Okta had done.  After spending a year and a half as the Okta admin, I had an opportunity early this year to join the Okta professional services team and focus on Workday driven IT provisioning implementations.  Since joining the Okta team I’ve had the privilege of helping a great group of customers find the same success as I had.  

Katie Hahn

Katie joined Okta's Product Marketing team in January 2014; she focuses on the business value assessment (i.e. helping customers quantify the value that Okta provides). Katie’s background is in finance – she spent 2 years in technology investment banking at Lehman Brothers and 3 years in venture capital. She has a BA in English from USC and an MBA from Berkeley.

Prab Kalra

Prab is Director of Technical Marketing at Okta , responsible for driving Product adoption and Technical Sales Enablement for various market and industry verticals. Prior to joining Okta , Prab spent 12+ years at Cisco driving Solutions & Technical Marketing for various enterprise products and technologies such as Virtulization , Application Delivery and Cloud Security.In his spare time Prab enjoys hiking and coaching a Junior Soccer team.

Cathy Tanimura

Cathy is Director of Analytics and Big Data at Okta. Prior to joining Okta, she built and ran analytics organizations at gaming company Zynga, and StubHub, a ticket marketplace acquired by eBay. Cathy has also worked with organizations in real estate, microfinance, and investment banking.

Tim Gu

Tim is a Product Manager at Okta and focuses on the Okta Application Network and Reporting product areas. Prior to joining Okta, Tim did management consulting at Bain & Company, and built energy-efficient lighting systems at Redwood Systems. Tim earned a BS in Electrical/Computer Engineering and Economics from Duke University.

Stephen Lee

Stephen Lee is Director of Platform Solutions at Okta who serves as an evangelist for the Okta Platform.  He is responsible for architecting solutions for strategic ISV & SI partnerships and customers. Prior to joining Okta, Stephen spent 10+ years at Oracle serving multiple roles from engineering to product management in the area of Identity Management. 

Hassen Karaa

Hassen Karaa is a Director of Product Management at Okta. He manages various areas including the end user experience, admin experience and key integrations such as Office 365. Hassen has worked in the cloud and mobile enterprise space for the past 8 years. Prior to joining Okta, he spent 6 years at Microsoft working on various enterprise IT products and solutions.

Travis Morrow

Travis Morrow is a Sr. Penetration Testing Engineer at Okta focused on attacking all components of our service stack, on premise agents, browser plugins, and mobile infrastructure. He has over nine years experience in information security and penetration testing between consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton and working for Amazon.com Information Security Team.  

Matias Brutti

Matias Brutti is a Principal Hacker at OKTA, where he brings his hardcore Argentinean love of hacking and applies it with a smooth hand. A man of class, when he’s not using his intimidating mental prowess on the job, he likes to kick back with some Ghost in the Shell, a nice Malbec, and only the finest meat argentinian meat or sushi. Matias performs penetration testing, code reviews, social engineering, web applications testing, identifies system vulnerabilities, in addition, he has experience designing custom security solutions for clients in cloud, software development, telecommunications, and financial services. Not to toot his own horn, but he’s also been a featured speaker at such prestigious events, such as Microsoft’s Bluehat Security Breifings, Baythreat, Toorcon Seattle, and various BSides conferences, among others.

Mike Dinsdale

Mike Dinsdale joined DocuSign as chief financial officer in May 2010. Mike's broad experience is highlighted by a proven track record of driving organizations to hyper growth. Most recently, he served as CFO of Lithium, a Software-as-a-Service platform and application suite provider. At Lithium, Mike raised millions in equity financing over three rounds and was also responsible for two strategic acquisitions. During his tenure Lithium's valuation increased, positioning the company as the clear leader in social CRM.  Prior to Lithium, Mike was employee #10 of Velocity11, a life sciences technology company, where he was instrumental in setting business strategy and aggressively driving revenue growth to $50M. Mike further fueled the growth of Velocity11 by dramatically increasing revenue, securing funding and playing a key role during the firm's acquisition by Agilent Technologies in 2007. Mike holds a B.E.Sc in mechanical engineering from the University of Western Ontario, an MBA from McMaster University and the designation of Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA).

Simon Thorpe

Simon Thorpe has been working with information security and identity management technologies since 1999. He was the first employee in information rights management startup, SealedMedia, who were acquired by Oracle where Simon spent another 4 years working with identity solutions. Moving to Microsoft, he continued his interests in identity and security for another 2 years before taking his current role at Okta. He has played all sorts of technical roles from developer, to support, sales engineer to product manager. At Okta he focusses on research around Microsoft technologies and drawing on his years with on premises identity solutions. Simon has written for Oracle blogs, Oracle Profit Magazine and other online publications. Most recently he contributed two chapters on unstructured data security and Information Rights Management for the revised publication of The Complete Reference, Information Security.

Frederic Luddy

Frederic B. Luddy founded ServiceNow in June 2004 and currently serves as ServiceNow’s Chief Product Officer and as a director. After having founded ServiceNow, he served as President and Chief Executive Officer from that time until May 2011. Luddy has been a director since June 2004. Prior to this, Luddy served as Chief Technology Officer of Peregrine Systems, Inc. from April 1990 to October 2003. Prior to that role, Luddy founded Enterprise Software Associates, and held positions at Boole and Babbage, Inc., and the Amdahl Corporation.

Bray Coleman

For FICO, moving to the cloud was part of a larger business transformation. FICO was undergoing changes that would require new ways of working  and new ways of thinking  -  the whole company needed to become more “cloud-like”.  FICO’s transformation required people to connect, collaborate and communicate much more than ever before.  To support this FICO used Okta to bring together FICO’s evolving cloud infrastructure, but also a powerful, but often neglected aspect – workstyle - enabled by Jive.   Kathryn Everest of Jive and Bray Coleman of FICO will talk about FICO’s transformation journey and how to leverage your employees’ workstyle to achieve success.

Kathryn Everest

Kathryn Everest is Jive’s Strategist for Communication and Collaboration Solutions. Jive empowers people and organizations to work better together, and Kathryn has helped leading organization do just that for over 20 years.  Learn from her experience in the trenches with companies that have transformed the way people connect, collaborate and communicate.  Increased revenue, cost reduction, increased productivity, improved customer and employee satisfaction, innovation and scalable growth happen when people come together to do their best work.  Kathryn knows what it takes to help employees, partners and customers work better together, across industries, in both public and private sectors, in organization of every size.  Prior to Jive, Kathryn was a Senior Managing Consultant with IBM focusing on social collaboration.  Kathryn's workstyle is open, candid, fun, and finds inspiration everywhere.  You can contact Kathryn on Twitter at @everestk. 

Ben Haines

Ben Haines is CIO and VP of IT at Box, where he is responsible for building out Box's enterprise IT function, utilizing an existing suite of cloud based solutions and enhancing where needed. Previously, Ben was the CIO for Pabst Brewing Co. where he transformed the traditional IT infrastructure and application environment into a service orientated organization delivering business value. Prior to Pabst, Ben spent 9 years with Red Bull leading teams across Asia Pacific, Europe and Americas. With grounding in ITSM Ben quickly moved into the application and BI space delivering mobile applications, BI solutions and a global portal and a collaboration platform.

Kevin Huang

Ben Haines is CIO and VP of IT at Box, where he is responsible for building out Box's enterprise IT function, utilizing an existing suite of cloud based solutions and enhancing where needed. Previously, Ben was the CIO for Pabst Brewing Co. where he transformed the traditional IT infrastructure and application environment into a service orientated organization delivering business value. Prior to Pabst, Ben spent 9 years with Red Bull leading teams across Asia Pacific, Europe and Americas. With grounding in ITSM Ben quickly moved into the application and BI space delivering mobile applications, BI solutions and a global portal and a collaboration platform.

Jeff Margolies

Jeff Margolies is a Principal in Deloitte & Touche’s Cyber Risk Services practice, based out of Orange County. He has nearly 20 years of experience in advising clients on complex security challenges across a variety of industries.

Jeff has held a series of practice leadership roles, and is currently focused on leading the cloud security practice.

In this practice, Jeff is helping both cloud consumers and cloud providers solve the key challenge of maintaining security in the public cloud.  His specialties include cloud security, identity and access management, and security transformation.

Gerard Beaulieu

As Senior Product Marketing Manager at ServiceNow, Gerald Beaulieu is responsible for the strategic positioning and messaging of the ServiceNow Express solution. With over 20 years marketing technology solutions at Epicor, Sage, Kaseya and now ServiceNow, Gerald has experienced the transition from early networking systems to today’s world of cloud computing. Gerald states that at each reflection point there has always been one constant and that being the use of technology to help drive customer efficiency and automation within their business. 

Greg McClellan

Greg manages Advent's Identity Management team, which develops authentication and user management solutions for Advent's Cloud platform.  Greg graduated from UC San Diego and has been at Advent for over 13 years.  Greg's is experienced in developing in the Microsoft framework and managing teams using the Agile software development methodology.  Previously at Advent, Greg worked on APX, Advent's best-of-breed portfolio management platform.

Dan Mellen

In 1999, Dan joined Accenture's security technologies organization.  During his tenure with Accenture, he has worked with customers in Public Service, Retail, Financial Services, Utilities, Pharmaceuticals, and Communications & High Tech to find security solutions to meet their business needs.  Dan holds patents around unqiquely integrating security and identity assurance technologies.

Dan has knowledge and experience in a variety of information security disciplines including Security Assessments, Enterprise Security Architecture, Compliance Management, Threat and Vulnerability Management and Industrial Control System Security.

For the past several years, Dan has focused his experiences in the extended enterprise security space helping Accenture strategy and client organizations integrate cloud, mobile and social platform security.  Dan was responsible for the development of the Accenture Cloud & Mobile Security Ecosystem - offering a use case-based environment for client demonstrations, proof of concepts and product integration prototyping.

Dan is a graduate of The University of Virginia, with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.  He specialized in the emerging Computer Engineering discipline, blending hardware, software integration and customized development.  Dan is the co-author of several SANS Information Security books and holds multiple security certifications, including SABSA, CCSK, GSEC, CSSA and CISSP.

Dillon Boyer

Dillon is a Senior Manager in Accenture’s Security Transformation Services practice, based in Sacramento, California.  Since 2001, he has been developing security solutions for state & national governments, financial institutions, high-tech companies and the resources industry.

Throughout his career, Dillon has designed and managed the delivery of complex identity & authentication, data protection, infrastructure security and security monitoring solutions.  Recently, he has been applying his technical and functional expertise to develop Accenture’s offerings, strategies and assets for securing the enterprise.

Prior to joining Accenture, Dillon graduated from Bradley University in Peoria, Illinois, with a degree in multimedia programming by blending the fields of computer science, graphic design, media production and usability.

Daniel Chiang

Daniel Chiang currently leads Slalom Security Services (S3) in the Bay Area. He is a recognized Security, Risk and Compliance SME and trusted advisor in the private sector and US Federal space.

Daniel’s experiences include leading successful Information Security and Privacy programs and projects across emerging organizations, public US Federal departments, and private Fortune 500 companies. He has a passion and enthusiasm to bring a new way of thinking towards Security beginning with S3’s ACT methodology and is interested in future developments in the Cybersecurity industry.

John Sewall

John Sewall is the Manager of Security Engineering at Cox Automotive where his responsibilities span over the areas of Intrusion Detection, Firewalls, Fraud, Scraping Defense, Information Security Awareness, and Identity and Access Management. John has nearly 15 years of experience in Information Technology, across both the higher education and corporate landscape. The last 6 of these years include specialization in Identity and Access Management, and solving unique and complex Identity challenges with elegant, robust, and innovative solutions.

John graduated from James Madison University with a B.S. in Computer Science, and an MBA with a concentration in Information Security.

Christian Mayoros

Christian Mayoros, CISSP, ITILF is a Senior Technical Consultant for Okta’s Professional Services team, responsible for the scoping and implementation of large, complex customer deployments in the United States. In addition, Christian serves as one the Customer Success Organization’s primary knowledge resource and implementer on Workday as a Master and Universal Directory integrated solutions. Before Okta, Christian worked as an Solutions Architect, Senior Security Solutions Architect and Engineer at HP, EDS, Xerox & Blue Cross Blueshield where he was a leader in the areas of Microsoft Windows security, SSL VPN solutions and public sector security. Starting his career in the United States Air Force in Cryptographic,  security has always been on of his major interests. Since coming to Okta, Christian has been the recipient of the the “Going Above and Beyond” award and recently “Top Contributor of the Quarter.

Gary Burpo

Gary Burpo is an Enterprise Solutions Architect at Cox Automotive, a leading provider of products and services that span the automotive ecosystem worldwide. During his 20+ years in IT, Gary has held many positions ranging from engineering to architecture, in diverse market segments spanning the public sector, consulting, retail, and most recently, automotive. Throughout the journey his focus has remained consistent: design and deliver innovative solutions that add genuine value with an eye to the future.

Mike Brophy

Since 1998, Mike Brophy has served Fortune 500 clients in a range of roles including: software development, solution architecture, product management, and technical sales leadership. In 2006, he founded IntegraLearn, an enterprise e-learning solutions company, which was acquired two years later by Sysgain, an ISV. At Sysgain, in the role of Vice President - Sales & Product Strategy, Mike quickly cultivated a strategic vendor relationship with Microsoft, where his team developed and maintained several line-of-business web and mobile apps supporting Microsoft’s Worldwide Field Sales & Marketing team. In 2010, Mike took the helm as CEO where he continued to grow the business, expand his team, and transitioned their focus to the cloud. In 2013, he joined Okta where, as Director of Customer Success, his concentration has been on building a world-class Customer Success organization — ensuring customers are successful with Okta, realizing the most from their investment, and influencing Okta’s product direction.

Karl McGuinness

Karl McGuinness is Director of Platform Product Management at Okta where he is responsible for the core identity services and APIs that provide the foundation of Okta identity layer.  He has over 15 years of experience building and scaling mission critical identity infrastructure as a developer, software architect, and product owner.  He is passionate about identity and you can always find him chatting about some deep identity problem.

Gaston Zilleruelo

Gaston is a lead at Amway Corporation's headquarters serving as a Principal IT Business Analyst. In the last seven years Amway has embarked on a strategy it calls Growth Through Innovation, in which the company has doubled its size. Currently, Gaston is contributing to this growth by focusing on the delivery of digital technologies to enhance the experience that satisfies the entrepreneurial needs of its 3 million Amway Business Owners (ABOs). Along the way, Gaston also played a key role as program and project manager in Amway's global Business Intelligence and ERP strategic initiatives.

Gaston also has experience working in the software industry at J.D. Edwards / Peoplesoft headquarters (currently Oracle Corp.), where he held a variety of lead and management positions in software engineering, consulting services, and global customer support. Gaston earned his M.S. Degree in Computer Information Systems at the University of Miami's international school of business.

Andy Nallappan

Andy Nallappan has served as Vice President and Chief Information Officer (CIO) of Avago's Global Information Services Division since 2012. In this role, he is responsible for the continuous improvement of Avago's business processes through cost-effective utilization of information technology.  Throughout Nallappan's long and distinguished career with Hewlett-Packard/Agilent/Avago, he has held a variety of key management positions overseeing Enterprise Applications, Enterprise Infrastructure and R&D Computing. He has been a pioneer in deploying cloud solutions and instrumental in evolving Avago's IT function into the industry leader it is today.

Jon Todd

Jon leads the Core team at Okta responsible for building software that keeps the service running and scaling. Prior to Okta, Jon was the lead architect at Structural Investment Management responsible for overall system design, security and scalability of a platform which managed over $2BN in assets. Before Structural, Jon founded Adventex Design which developed a cloud CRM and front office solution for residential real estate companies. Jon has a B.A. in Computer Science and Economics from Bowdoin College where he graduated with highest honors.

Adam D'Amico

Adam has been building and scaling web services since 1996. He currently runs the Technical Operations team at Okta. Before joining, he held similar roles at several lead-generation and advertising startups, and also co-founded a security strategy consultancy with a team of classmates and colleagues from MIT.

Hector Aguilar 

Hector Aguilar is the Senior Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer at Okta. As SVP of Engineering and CTO, Hector is responsible for running engineering and technology for Okta, developing strategic planning for the direction of product development activities and managing the engineering team.

Prior to Okta, Hector served in a variety of roles at ArcSight since its inception, driving technology development as the CTO and Vice President of Software Development for the company during its successful IPO in 2008 and after its acquisition by Hewlett Packard. Hector also has experience in software engineering and management at Impresse, ICA, Grupo Televisa and Ericsson, bringing over eighteen years of networking, security and software development experience to Okta.

Hector earned his bachelor’s degree in electronic systems engineering as well as his master’s degree in computer science from the Instituto Tecnológico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey. Hector also enjoys running and taking bike rides with his family.

Lee Murray

Lee Murray has over a decade of experience implementing Identity Management solutions for large enterprises and has been consulting in IT for more than 20 years. Lee is certified in both Okta and Workday integrations and is responsible for the Identity Management Practice at CPSG. Lee is an experienced developer and technical architect in software development and application integration, starting with Client-Server and on to  N-Tier Architecture, Java Enterprise Edition, Web Applications, Mobile Applications, and Service-Oriented Architecture. He is passionate about client success and leading high-caliber implementation teams.

Justin Stanford

Justin Stanford is a Senior Systems Engineer at the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, a large charitable organization which funds lifesaving blood cancer research and provides resources and advice to blood cancer patients.  Justin acts as practice lead in the areas of storage and virtualization and has driven varied technology projects including storage migrations, desktop deployments and application integrations.  Justin has been active in the area of infrastructure engineering and technology management for over fifteen years and previously in his career served in the capacity of Director of Information Technology at SERINO/COYNE, an advertising agency and subsidiary of the Fortune 500 advertising conglomerate Omnicom Group, Inc.  Justin holds a B.S. degree in Information Systems from Fordham University and various industry certifications.

Eric Karlinsky

Eric Karlinsky is a Senior Manager on Okta’s Technical Marketing team. Eric performs competitive analysis, supports and trains the sales team and channel partners on Okta’s capabilities, and helps to integrate customer feedback into the product roadmap. Prior to joining Okta, Eric was an Identity Management consultant for over 6 years at Booz Allen Hamilton in Virginia.

Rand Wacker

Rand Wacker runs the Enterprise Product team at Box, where his team is responsible for Box’s leading content management and security features.  Rand joined Box after leading product development in the areas of collaboration, security, and infrastructure at companies such as Cisco, IronPort, Sendmail, and CloudPassage.  Rand holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley and an MBA from the Haas School of Business, also at Berkeley.

Chris Morace

As Chief Strategy Officer, Chris Morace is responsible for turning Jive's vision for Social Business into tightly aligned execution across departments. Additionally, he leads Jive's thought leadership platform, analyst relations, and partner ecosystem.

Chris joined Jive Software in October 2007 and led Jive's product strategy and delivery for several years. Under his direction the company became the industry-recognized leader in Social Business Software by all of the major analysts. He has an 18-year track record for building high-growth, high-value businesses in the technology sector. Prior to joining Jive, Chris held executive positions including Vice President of Research & Development at Mercury Interactive, (acquired by Hewlett Packard) and Vice President of Product Development at Kintana.

Chris is a recognized thought leader on social business topics and is frequently called upon as a speaker and advisor. He holds a B.S. in Biological Sciences from Stanford University. He currently lives in the Bay Area with his wife and two children.

Bill Miller

Bill is a Senior Technical Instructor for Okta’s Training and Enablement team and is committed to his customer’s success.  He has over 15 years experience in technical enablement from his stints with Peoplesoft, Oracle and Global Knowledge Software.  Bill is the ultimate SF Giants fan and often finds himself at AT&T Park after work.

Matthew Travers

Matthew joined Okta Training after working as a Senior Technical Customer Support Engineer for the Okta Support Team. Having delivered outstanding customer support to Okta customers in a reactive capacity, Matthew is now using that experience to proactively prepare Okta customers for the Admin challenges associated with Identity Management. Matthew brings over 10 years of IT support experience and over six years managing technology support teams. Born in Washington DC and well traveled across the USA and South Korea, Matthew speaks Korean fluently and enjoys learning more about Korean culture. In his spare time, he enjoys singing and playing Folk and Bluegrass.

Ona Allison

Ona is a Technical Instructor at Okta. She has 10 years of experience in technical instruction. Prior to joining Okta she was the Director of Technology for a school district where she over saw all the on-premise and cloud integrations for the entire district. In her spare time, she enjoys running 5ks and half-marathons.

James Garvin

James is a Senior Technical Instructor at Okta, and he is also the most senior member of the instructor team. He has over 10 years of experience in technical instruction and is experienced in Identity Management, ITIL, and various technologies. He was born in Austin, TX and is a seasoned world traveler. In his spare time, James is slowly restoring an old VW Bug and toying with how Raspberry Pi can automate his home.

Shyam Rangaratnam

Shyam is a Senior Instructor at Okta with over 15 years of technical training and education consulting experience. Previously, he has been responsible for the design and delivery of enterprise-level learning programs focused on business process automation, role management, and web services integration.  He is a big fan of puns, palindromes, and alliteration.

Annie Pearl

Candida Rodriguez

Candida Rodriguez is a seasoned IT professional with hands-on experience in social technologies focusing on online community management, program development, product management and customer support both internally and B2B markets.