Security News > 2021 > August > Shopping for execs: ID management biz Okta poaches Google's veep of engineering to run product dev activities

Identity-as-a-service slinger Okta has poached Google veep of engineering Sagnik Nandy to become its president and chief tech officer.

Nandy will run his new employer's engineering and business technology functions, including the planning of product development activities.

During 15 years at the Chocolate Factory, Nandy was distinguished engineer and senior director of analytics and measurements, and veep of display advertising.

Most recently he ran engineering for search ads, as well as the in-house advertising unit.

Prior to landing at Mountain View, the exec worked on a PhD in Computer Science and Engineering from UC San Diego.

Google previously named Okta as its "Preferred identity and access management partner" in the large enterprise segment in 2016 but then a little over a year later bought single sign-on vendor Bitium.

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