Tom Malta’s extensive career in Financial Services Technology and Cyber Security started 30+ years ago as a hands-on developer building and supporting front office trading systems for many of the top Wall St. Brokerages and Investment Banks. Shortly after moving to Goldman Sachs in 2000, he landed in Cyber Security and has been there ever since focused on building and executing Identity and Access Management Solutions. He’s led many successful Global IAM Programs as a C-level leader utilizing custom build as well as off the shelf technology supporting internal, external, customer, and 3rd party/cloud identities alike.

Tom is a Senior Principal, Industries at Okta where he is currently helping to build out our GTM strategy across all Industries, but his specialty is in Financial Services space where he spent the majority of his career in IT and the last 23+ years as a practitioner leading global IAM programs at F100 companies.

As a recognized Subject Matter Expert in IAM and winner of the 2021 IAM Evangelist of the Year award, Tom spends a lot of his time giving back to the industry through board representations, speaking engagements, and contributing to blogs and research papers.

Prior to Okta, Tom held similar Managing Director / Executive C-Level IT roles at Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, BNYMellon, Wells Fargo, Navy Federal Credit Union, Ally Financial, Synchrony Financial, and Brown Brothers Harriman. Mr. Malta is also an active participant of various IAM Advisory Board’s and a distinguished fellow of the Ponemon Institute.