Founder Profile
Todd McKinnon
Last reviewed: October 2026 · By Swet Parvadiya
Who is Todd McKinnon?
Todd McKinnon is a founder of Okta, Inc., which was founded in 2009 with Frederic Kerrest.
- Company founded
- Okta, Inc.
- Founded
- 2009
- Co-founders
- Frederic Kerrest
Background
Software engineer who worked at PeopleSoft and then spent about six years at Salesforce, leaving as head of engineering in 2009.
Founding Story
Todd McKinnon co-founded Okta in 2009 and has been its CEO since the start. At Salesforce he ran engineering during its early growth, which shaped his view that SaaS adoption would make identity, not the network perimeter, the core of enterprise security. He took Okta public on the Nasdaq in April 2017, led the $6.5 billion Auth0 acquisition in 2021, and has steered the company toward GAAP profitability and AI agent security. Todd McKinnon was born in 1971.
Sources
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- Okta fiscal 2026 fourth quarter and full-year results (Okta, Inc.)
- Okta second quarter fiscal 2027 results (Okta, Inc.)