Okta Welcomes John Zissimos as Chief Digital Officer
July 15 2021 - 12:12PM
Business Wire
Senior Brand, Creative, and Digital Executive
Joins Okta’s Global Marketing Organization
Okta, Inc. (NASDAQ:OKTA), the leading independent identity
provider, welcomes industry veteran John Zissimos as its first
Chief Digital Officer. Zissimos will report to Kendall Collins,
Chief Marketing Officer, and will be responsible for the holistic
creative, campaign, digital, and brand strategy for the
company.
Zissimos joins Okta’s executive team with extensive brand and
leadership expertise. He most recently served as Vice President of
Creative, Brand, Media, and Customer Programs at Google and led the
team responsible for marketing the Google Cloud Platform globally.
Prior to joining Google, Zissimos was Salesforce’s Chief Design
Officer, where he worked closely with CEO Marc Benioff to reinvent
the company’s brand and story, inspire a data-driven, design-led
culture, and help drive tremendous growth. Zissimos’s experience
also includes two decades as an award-winning advertising and
design executive, film director, and photographer, with top
creative positions at McCann Erickson and J. Walter Thompson.
“Okta has the incredible potential to become an iconic brand,
and we are so excited to have John lead this effort and creatively
influence our next phase of growth,” said Collins, Chief Marketing
Officer. “The Okta Identity Cloud touches tens of millions of
knowledge workers and customers every day and John has the ideal
skill set to evolve Okta’s brand strategy and deliver the
delightful digital experiences that our users have come to expect.
Okta will benefit tremendously from John’s pedigree in building the
most recognizable software brands in the world. His brand vision,
award-winning creative expertise, and empathetic approach to
leadership and culture are unmatched. We are thrilled to welcome
him to the team.”
“Okta is a remarkable company and I was immediately drawn to the
people, purpose, and product,” said Zissimos. “I’m a storyteller
and teambuilder at heart and am humbled to play a role in telling
the Okta story and leading the creative brand strategy in the next
phase of the company’s journey. I’ve long admired the company’s
culture, values, and effective method of empowering people and
teams. In doing so, Okta has become the most trusted platform to
secure every identity and I look forward to building on its strong
brand foundation to create work that inspires and drives value for
customers and workforces worldwide.”
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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