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David Sakamoto Joins Veza as Senior Vice President of Global Customer Success to Help Customers Modernize Identity Security Across the Enterprise

Veza, a leading provider of identity and cybersecurity solutions, announced the appointment of David Sakamoto as the Senior Vice President of Global Customer Success. In this role, David will spearhea...

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PALO ALTO, Calif.: Veza, a leading provider of identity and cybersecurity solutions, announced the appointment of David Sakamoto as the Senior Vice President of Global Customer Success. In this role, David will spearhead Veza's global customer success initiatives across both pre-sales and post-sales initiatives, and play a pivotal role in helping customers achieve their business outcomes with a modern and comprehensive approach to identity security. With his extensive experience scaling company-wide customer success strategies, David will be instrumental in optimizing rapid value and outcome delivery with the Veza platform.

"Veza's innovative approach to identity security presents an opportunity to fundamentally transform how organizations visualize, manage, and control access across the enterprise,” said Sakamoto. “Our focus on customer success, including solutions engineering, ensures that we not only meet our customers' current needs but also help them realize long-term value. As enterprises are ready to embrace the next-gen identity platform, we will help them to architect future identity security requirements to fit their unique business journey.”

David brings over 25 years of experience in leadership roles in customer success, sales, product engineering, services, and global operations. Most recently, he served as the Global Head of Customer Success at GitLab, where he supported GitLab’s growth from $50 million to over $650 million quarterly run rate. Before his impactful tenure at GitLab, David led Cisco's Americas Customer Success organization for their subscription security and networking software products. He has also served in various roles at EVault, Genentech, and SGI.

“David’s proven track record in scaling customer success organizations and helping customers achieve their business outcomes makes him an invaluable asset to Veza,” said Kane Lightowler, COO and President of Veza. “His deep passion for customer outcomes and his ability to drive measurable business growth aligns perfectly with our mission to transform identity security.”

David’s combination of customer passion, technical expertise, and operational leadership will propel Veza’s vision forward as the company continues to grow and innovate the next-generation identity platform for organizations worldwide.

About Veza

Veza is the leader in identity security, helping organizations secure access across the enterprise. Veza’s Access Platform goes beyond identity governance and administration (IGA) tools to visualize, monitor, and control entitlements so that organizations can stay compliant, achieve least privilege, and de-risk the breach. Global enterprises like Wynn Resorts, Expedia, and Blackstone trust Veza to manage identity security use cases, including privileged access monitoring, non-human identity (NHI) security, access entitlement management, data system access, SaaS access security, IAM hygiene, identity security posture management (ISPM), and next-generation IGA. Founded in 2020, Veza is headquartered in Los Gatos, California, and is funded by Accel, Bain Capital, Ballistic Ventures, Google Ventures (GV), Norwest Venture Partners, and True Ventures. Visit us at www.veza.com and follow us on LinkedIn, X, and YouTube.

Fonte: Business Wire

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