BetterCloud Appoints Matt Young as Vice President of Sales

Former Okta sales director joins to drive the company's global go-to-market strategy and execution

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Mar 28, 2019, 09:00 ET

NEW YORK, March 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- BetterCloud, the leading SaaS Operations Management platform, announced today it has appointed former Okta sales director Matt Young as Vice President of Sales to lead sales and revenue operations for the company. In his role, Young will help accelerate the company's global go-to-market strategy to meet the surging demand for BetterCloud's leading SaaS Operations Management platform.

"Matt's experience driving sales initiatives at a leading security company like Okta is precisely what we need to take our go-to-market strategy to new heights," said David Politis, CEO of BetterCloud. "His proven track record of building, inspecting, and driving results will help fuel our plans to put BetterCloud in the hands of IT and security teams at every major enterprise."

Young brings more than 20 years of experience in direct sales and sales team management in the CRM, Human Resource Management, and Identity & Access Management spaces, with extensive experience in cloud computing in particular. Most recently, he served as Senior Director, Strategic Accounts at Okta where he led the team responsible for acquiring and growing Fortune 500 and Global 2000 customers across the entire eastern region of the United States. He also held previous roles at the company as a Regional Sales Director and Senior Account Executive. Prior to Okta, Young was a Senior Account Executive at Salesforce where he was responsible for winning new cloud business revenue within enterprise accounts.

"When BetterCloud partnered with Okta last year, it became clear to me they were poised to become the next big security company," said Young. "The synergy between the two companies painted a clear picture of a new ecosystem that would protect business data in today's digital workplace, with BetterCloud as the first and only platform with the ability to monitor and manage user interactions within SaaS applications. Everything from David's vision to their technology made joining the company an easy choice. I am excited to join BetterCloud at this stage of hyper growth and look forward to playing a role in the company's continued success."

About BetterCloud
BetterCloud is the first SaaS Operations Management platform, empowering IT and security teams to define, remediate, and enforce management and security policies for SaaS applications. Over 2,500 customers in 60+ countries rely on BetterCloud for continuous event monitoring, threat remediation, and fully-automated policy enforcement. To further guide customers on their SaaS strategy, the company established the first-ever "SaaS Application Management and Security Framework" in its newly published book, Controlling Your SaaS Environment. BetterCloud is headquartered in New York City with an engineering office in Atlanta, GA. For more information, please visit www.bettercloud.com.

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