---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001660134-25-000024"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "OKTA"
cik: "0001660134"
company_name: "Okta, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-02-10T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-27T00:06:26.629761+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "neutral"
materiality_score: 0.55
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Okta names Eric Kelleher COO; President Eugenio Pace retiring end of March 2025

## Summary
- Eric Kelleher appointed President and COO effective Feb 1, 2025; previously President Customer Experience & Communication.
- Kelleher receives $500K base salary, 65% target bonus, and $12M in RSUs/PSUs from upcoming merit cycle.
- Eugenio Pace, President Business Operations, to retire at end of March 2025 after leading Auth0 acquisition integration.
- Kelleher will oversee Marketing, Customer First, Company Operations, GTM Strategy & Ops, and more.
- Kelleher has been at Okta since 2016; prior roles at Salesforce and LinkedIn.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001660134-25-000024
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: OKTA
- cik: 0001660134
- company_name: Okta, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-02-10T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: neutral
- materiality_score: 0.55
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.55
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1660134/000166013425000024/0001660134-25-000024-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1660134/000166013425000024/okta-20250210.htm

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- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001660134-25-000024.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Eric Kelleher was appointed as President and Chief Operating Officer at Okta, Inc..
  - Action: appointed
  - Role: President and Chief Operating Officer
  source text: On February 10, 2025, Okta, Inc. (the “Company”) announced that Eric Kelleher, age 53, became the Company’s President and Chief Operating Officer (“COO”) on February 1, 2025.
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1660134/000166013425000024/0001660134-25-000024-index.htm

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