NEW YORK, March 23, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- On the heels of
record growth in 2020, mParticle, the largest independent Customer
Data Platform, today announced that Eric
Kelleher, the Chief Customer Officer of Okta (NASDAQ: OKTA)
has joined its board of directors. Kelleher's experience scaling
some of the industry's most successful and highest growth
enterprise SaaS companies will provide expert guidance to mParticle
as it builds upon a record growth year.
Eric has spent the past 18 years in leadership roles building
successful, hypergrowth SaaS companies. In his current role as
Chief Customer Officer of Okta, Kelleher oversees all of Okta's
customer relationships and is responsible for building its global
teams and businesses for professional services, education services,
success management, customer support, and subscription renewals. He
has helped Okta grow ARR from under $200
million to over $900 million
during his tenure.
"The market for data infrastructure to help teams leverage their
customer data to drive personalized customer experiences is
exploding," said Kelleher. "The opportunity is enormous and they've
built a great company with incredible momentum. I look forward to
working with the team to help them continue to scale."
Prior to Okta, Eric spent 11 years in customer leadership roles
at Salesforce.com, where he scaled programs and teams to accelerate
customer time-to-value, and to grow adoption and return on
investment. During his tenure, he helped shape the industry's first
SaaS playbook for customer success, loyalty, renewals, and growth,
and helped the company grow ARR from $50
million to $4 billion. He has
also served as the first global head of Customer Success at
LinkedIn Talent Solutions.
"Eric's experience leading customer teams and companies through
hyper growth will be key to mParticle as we continue along our
trajectory," said Michael Katz, CEO
and Co-founder of mParticle. "His track record of scaling some of
the most successful software companies ever is truly impressive and
his guidance as we scale our ability to help our customers
accelerate their digital transformation initiatives has been so
valuable to myself, and the team."
mParticle makes it easy to holistically manage customer data
along the entire product and customer lifecycle. mParticle's
customer data infrastructure helps teams at some of the biggest and
fastest growing companies establish the foundation for scalable
success by improving customer data quality, governance, and
connectivity.
About mParticle
mParticle enables businesses to easily manage the immense growth
of data volumes moving to and from sources, systems, API's and
applications. With a single API, developers, product managers and
marketers can holistically manage customer data along the entire
product and customer life cycle while also improving data quality
and governance. Additionally, mParticle takes the pain out of
deploying and managing integrations by syncing customer data to
over 300 analytics and marketing tools in real-time. Founded in
2013, mParticle is headquartered in New
York City with remote employees around the world. For more
information, please visit www.mparticle.com.
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