Based on a recent announcement, Coinbase’s president and Chief Operating Officer Emilie Choi has joined the board of directors of identity company Okta.
Choi will be officially appointed from August 19 onwards. She has spent more than eight years on LinkedIn before she joined Coinbase, originally as vice president of business and data before becoming COO in 2018.
Okta, an identity management firm based in San Francisco, was founded in 2009 and went public on the Nasdaq in mid-2017. It currently has a market capitalization of almost $15 billion. Its solution is utilized by 15,800 companies to help staff members’ securely access software items.
Todd McKinnon, CEO and co-founder of Okta, stated Emilie’s passion for entrepreneurship, technology, and the scaling of mission-oriented businesses has assisted the growth of many significant tech firms for the last two decades.
As Okta “executes on its mission of freeing anyone to safely use any technology and creating a world where your identity belongs to you”, Choi stated that she is looking forward to working with the identity management firm.
Choi previously served on the boards of ZipRecruiter, Naspers, and Naspers subsidiary Prosus N.V.
