What Happened?
San Francisco, CA-based Okta Appointed Mark Settle as Chief Information Officer
About the Company
Okta is an integrated identity management and mobility management service that securely and simply connects people to their applications from any device, anywhere, at anytime. Built from the ground up in the cloud, Okta is delivered with an unwavering commitment to customer success. Okta (pronounced AHK-tuh) gives Enterprise IT teams the ability to dramatically improve the end-user experience, while achieving the management control necessary to accelerate the secure adoption of cloud and mobile technologies. The result is greater employee and partner productivity, increased revenue and supply chain efficiency, and improved compliance. Product development teams in digital businesses and cloud service providers can leverage the Okta platform to seamlessly authenticate, federate, manage and secure their users. The result is faster time to market for their apps and products, more rapid and secure enterprise adoption and improved developer productivity. The Okta service provides a deeply integrated experience across directory services, single sign-on, strong authentication, provisioning, mobility management, and reporting. It runs in the cloud on a secure, reliable, extensively audited platform and integrates with on premises applications, directories, and identity management systems. Okta has over 2,000 customers, including Adobe, Chiquita, LinkedIn, MGM Resorts International, and Western Union. The thousands of enterprises, cloud vendors and millions of people using Okta form the foundation for the industry`s fastest growing, vendor neutral IT Network for the cloud and mobile world.
About the Person
Mark Settle is a seven time CIO with broad business experience in information services, enterprise software, consumer products, high tech distribution, financial services and oil & gas. He has led IT organizations that supported the global operations of Fortune 500 companies; maintained the R&D infrastructure required for software product development; and hosted customer-facing delivery systems for commercial products and services. He has received multiple industry awards and is a three time CIO 100 honoree. Settle sits on the advisory boards of several Silicon Valley venture capital firms and pioneered the adoption of service management and cloud computing technologies within several large enterprises. He is the author of Truth from the Trenches: A Practical Guide to the Art of IT Management which will be released in the fall of 2016. Settle’s formal training is in the Geological Sciences. He received his Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from MIT and a PhD from Brown University. Settle is a former Air Force officer and NASA Program Scientist.
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