Founder Profile
Frederic Kerrest
Last reviewed: September 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Background
Frederic Kerrest possessed a profoundly rigorous, deeply elite background in advanced corporate strategy, complex enterprise software sales, and massive-scale business administration. Having successfully graduated from Stanford University and the MIT Sloan School of Management, and operating as a fiercely capable technology consultant and sales leader, this intensely commercial foundation provided the exact strategic leverage required to successfully co-pilot the massive Okta corporation.
Founding Story
Frederic Kerrest is a fiercely astute technology executive, highly strategic venture capitalist, and the profoundly influential commercial co-founder fundamentally responsible for the absolute operational scaling of the massive Okta cybersecurity empire. Operating as an incredibly skilled sales and business development executive alongside McKinnon at Salesforce, Kerrest aggressively spearheaded Okta's incredibly complex early go-to-market strategy. By relentlessly evangelizing the massive necessity for cloud-based identity management to highly skeptical corporate CIOs during the absolute infancy of enterprise SaaS, he fiercely secured the critical early contracts required for the startup's survival. His absolutely rigorous commercial execution and massive focus on aggressive global sales completely guaranteed the foundational growth of the company, permanently cementing his legacy in the massive enterprise software ecosystem.