Cybersecurity
10 Okta product leaders
These ten product leaders hold or have held chief product officer, president, senior vice president and vice president roles at Okta, across customer identity, Auth0, identity governance and AI agent security. A reader can learn from them how an identity company sets product strategy and runs several product lines at once.
Professionals to explore
01—10Akshay Sehgal
LinkedInExperience: Vice President, Head of Product Strategy & Operations, Chief of Staff · Okta
Vice President, Head of Product Strategy & Operations, Chief of Staff at Okta since April 2026; his profile says he runs the strategy and operations function for Okta's Products and Technology organization, covering engineering, product management and design for both the Okta and Auth0 product lines. He was Director, Product Strategy at Okta from 2022 to 2024.
Diya Jolly
LinkedInExperience: Chief Product Officer · Okta
Former Chief Product Officer at Okta (February 2019 to April 2023); her profile says she was responsible for Okta's product roadmap and innovation and led a team of 400 spanning product management, design, product marketing, competitive intelligence and pricing. She was Vice President Of Product Management at Google from 2011 to 2019 and has been Chief Product & Technology Officer at Xero since 2023.
Ely Kahn
LinkedInExperience: Chief Product Officer · Okta
Chief Product Officer at Okta since January 2026, a role listed at C-Level in the Product department. Kahn's profile also lists the role Chief Product Officer at SentinelOne, where he says he led all product lines, and he has been a member of the CNBC Technology Executive Council since August 2026.
Gareth Davies
LinkedInExperience: Chief Product Officer, Auth0 · Okta
Chief Product Officer, Auth0 at Okta since April 2025, a role listed at C-Level in the Product department; his profile headline reads CPO at Auth0 (Okta). Davies was SVP Product at TransUnion (2022–2025) and SVP Product at Neustar, Inc. (2022–2025), and Chief Product Officer at Crisp from 2021 to 2022.
Ian Hassard
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Product Management · Okta
Vice President of Product Management at Okta since August 2024; his profile says he leads the Identity and Access Management product teams for Customer Identity at Okta. He was Senior Director of Product Management (2023–2024) and Director of Product Management (2022–2023) at Okta, and Director of Product Management at Auth0 from 2021 to 2022.
Jack Hirsch
LinkedInExperience: SVP of Product Management · Okta
Former SVP of Product Management at Okta (December 2020 to May 2026); his profile describes the role as leading the evolution of Okta's products into the AI era. Hirsch was Senior Director of Product Management at Box from 2018 to 2020, CEO and Co-Founder of Butter.ai (acquired by Box) from 2016 to 2018, and Vice President of Product and Engineering at Evernote from 2012 to 2016.
Karl McGuinness
LinkedInExperience: SVP & Chief Product Architect · Okta
Former SVP & Chief Product Architect at Okta (2021–2024); his profile says he was the Chief Product Architect for Okta and played a pivotal role in building a vendor-neutral identity cloud. McGuinness has held advisor roles at Natoma (Acquired by Snowflake) since 2024, Orchid Security since 2025, Keycard since 2025 and C1 since 2026.
Nick Davis
LinkedInExperience: Vice President of Product Management · Okta
Vice President of Product Management at Okta since May 2026; his profile headline reads VP of Product, Okta for AI Agents, Identity Security. Davis was Vice President of Product Management at SentinelOne in 2026, Senior Director of Product Management (Cloud Security & Exposure Management) at SentinelOne from 2024 to 2026, and Group Product Manager at Datadog from 2022 to 2023.
Ric Smith
LinkedInExperience: President of Products and Technology · Okta
President of Products and Technology at Okta since October 2025; his profile says he leads global product, engineering and technology strategy, focused on securing human and AI identity and protecting the AI agent lifecycle. At SentinelOne he was President - Product, Technology, and Operations (2024–2025), Chief Product & Technology Officer (2022–2024) and Chief Technology Officer (2021–2022).
Tal Herman
LinkedInExperience: VP of Product - Identity, Governance and Privileged Access · Okta
Former VP of Product - Identity, Governance and Privileged Access at Okta (February 2023 to October 2024) and Senior Director of Product Management at Okta from 2021 to 2023. Herman was Sr. Director, Product Management-IDM & Governance at ForgeRock (Now Ping Identity) from 2017 to 2021 and has been Head of Product at Orchid Security since October 2024.
Choose the right perspective
Match the person's product area to your question, since customer identity, governance and AI agent security serve different buyers. For long-run strategy, start with a current or former chief product officer, and for a specific product line, pick the vice president who runs or ran it.
Questions to take into the conversation
- 01How should an identity company extend its products to secure AI agents as well as people?
- 02How do product teams run two product lines, such as a workforce product and a developer product, without duplicating work?
- 03What does a product strategy and operations team do to help a large product organization plan and ship?
About this directory
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