San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States, January 2026 — Okta has appointed Rebecca Port as its new Chief People Officer. In this role, Rebecca Port will lead the company’s people agenda across talent, culture, organization design, leadership capability, and the broader employee experience as Okta continues to strengthen its position as The World’s Identity Company focused on securing AI and enabling safe technology use across devices and applications.
With a career spanning people leadership in high-growth technology, financial services, healthcare, and advisory ecosystems, Port brings deep expertise in scaling HR functions, building performance-driven cultures, and partnering with senior leadership teams through transformation and growth.
Before joining Okta, Rebecca Port served as Chief Human Resources Officer at Sequoia for close to a year, supporting investor-backed companies through smarter people spend with integrated total comp and benefits solutions that combine advisory, outsourcing, and platform capabilities. Alongside this, she has also been an HR Venture Advisor with SemperVirens Venture Capital for nearly two years, engaging with an ecosystem of workplace, healthcare, and fintech innovators that sell to and through employers.
Prior to Sequoia, Port spent about four years as Chief People Officer at 10x Genomics, where she led the People function and supported the organization’s growth trajectory with a focus on building a world-class HR capability and talent agenda.
Earlier, she served for around two years as Vice President, Human Resources at Netflix, leading HR for the Finance and Operations organization supporting approximately 1,500 employees. Her remit covered enterprise-wide HR strategy across scaling and structuring for growth, organization design, hiring, learning, talent management, compensation, people analytics, employee relations, and inclusion and diversity—partnering closely with senior leaders during rapid growth.
Port also held significant leadership responsibilities at Standard Chartered Bank, including nearly four years as Managing Director, Global Head of HR Risk and Compliance & Head of HR, Europe and Americas, and earlier roles spanning about five years across Wholesale Banking as Global Head of Talent and Learning & Talent Director. She also worked as HR Director at Allergan, contributing to the talent and learning agenda and supporting post-merger integration work. Earlier in her career, she led consulting growth and capability building as Head of Consulting, DDI India & Managing Partner, DDI UK at Development Dimensions International (DDI), and also held an academic leadership role as Lecturer and Course Director, MSc Occupational Psychology at City, University of London.
Rebecca Port holds a PhD in Occupational Psychology from The University of Sheffield and an MSc in Occupational Psychology from Nottingham University Business School.
About Okta
Okta secures AI. Okta is The World’s Identity Company, freeing everyone to safely use any technology—anywhere, on any device or app.
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