He joined a pre-IPO Salesforce in 2002, and rose to prominence by leading an effort turn its software into a platform by making it possible to connect it with outside applications.

Most recently, Weissman was chief technology officer and founder of hotel management app startup Duetto.īefore that, Weissman was instrumental in helping to build Salesforce into the behemoth it is today. He's been in the enterprise software business for 25 years, with a specialty in helping young companies get off the ground. Weissman will actually be Okta's third chief architect, joining Jon Todd and Karl McGuinness in the role. Okta just announced that it has hired former Salesforce CTO Craig Weissman to be its new chief architect - putting him in a crucial position for the company's next phase of growth. 'To me platforms are all about flexibility and robustness and scale, and Okta has plenty of that now, but I think a lot of promise ahead is handling ever more partners and ever more larger companies and more interesting use cases,' Weismann told Business Insider.Okta CEO Todd McKinnon said Weissman's expertise is key to the company's plan to make its product a full-fledged security and identity management platform that can work with any type of workplace app.Weissman was previously CTO of Salesforce, where he helped establish the cloud software giant's developer platform, allowing for integration with outside apps.Veteran software executive Craig Weissman is joining identity management startup Okta as its new chief architect to help the $15 billion security company through its next phase of growth.Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders.

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