Okta Welcomes Steve Rowland as Chief Revenue Officer
March 16 2021 - 12:00PM
Business Wire
Senior Technology Executive to Join Okta’s
Global Field Operations
Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent identity
provider, welcomes Steve Rowland as Chief Revenue Officer,
effective March 15, 2021. Rowland is reporting to Susan St. Ledger,
President of Worldwide Field Operations.
“Okta is proud to welcome Steve Rowland as our new Chief Revenue
Officer,” said Susan St. Ledger, President of Worldwide Field
Operations, Okta. “Steve brings deep business and go-to-market
expertise to Okta and adding him in this net-new role will only
bolster our focus on operational rigor and data-driven decision
making within worldwide field operations. As customers continue to
look to Okta to provide a platform to address every identity use
case, Steve will play an integral role supporting our go-to-market
strategy, driving predictable revenue, and ensuring we deliver
delightful customer experiences.”
“Okta is well positioned to address trends currently impacting
customers: moving to the cloud and navigating hybrid IT,
developer-centricity and the need to build seamless customer
experiences, and Zero Trust security,” said Steve Rowland. “I
believe that Okta has the power to be the identity standard for the
internet and I’m humbled by the opportunity to join Okta through
this next phase of growth. I look forward to working directly with
Okta’s forward-looking customers, and to drive scale, innovation
and operational rigor across the go-to-market organization.”
About Steve Rowland
Rowland brings 20+ years of experience spanning technology
organizations in various high-growth stages across the globe. He
most recently was the Vice President of Americas Sales at Splunk.
Prior to joining Splunk, he served as President at DataStax,
leading all go-to-market functions. Before DataStax, Steve served
as Senior Vice President of worldwide Sales at Apigee, the leader
in API Management, where he led the company through a successful
IPO and later acquisition by Google. He was the Vice President of
Field Operations for the Americas and Asia Pacific at Blue Coat
Systems and served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales at
Workbrain Corporation. He held various leadership roles at BMC
Software. Steve holds a B.S. from Texas A&M University and
lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his family.
About Okta
Okta is the leading independent identity provider. The Okta
Identity Cloud enables organizations to securely connect the right
people to the right technologies at the right time. With more than
7,000 pre-built integrations to applications and infrastructure
providers, Okta provides simple and secure access to people and
organizations everywhere, giving them the confidence to reach their
full potential. More than 10,000 organizations, including JetBlue,
Nordstrom, Siemens, Slack, T-Mobile, Takeda, Teach for America, and
Twilio, trust Okta to help protect the identities of their
workforces and customers.
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