Frederic Kerrest

Frederic Kerrest is a board member at JupiterOne and has over 20 years of experience in the tech industry. Frederic was previously the Executive Vice Chairman, Board Member, Chief Operating Officer & Co-Founder at Okta, Inc., where they worked for 13 years. Frederic is also the author of Zero to IPO, a book about their experience taking Okta from a startup to a publicly traded company. In addition, they have been the Chairman & Co-Founder of Herophilus, a healthcare startup, for 5 years, and a Partner & Founder at The Operator Network, a venture capital firm, for 3 years. Frederic has also served on the Executive Advisory Board at the Martin Trust Center for MIT Entrepreneurship for 4 years. Kerrest is also a co-host and co-founder of the Zero to IPO podcast, which they have been hosting for 4 years. Prior to their work in the tech industry, Kerrest worked in sales and business development at Salesforce.com for 5 years and as a software engineer at Moai Technologies, Sun Microsystems, WebTV Networks & Applied Materials for 3 years.

Frederic Kerrest has a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - Sloan School of Management, which they completed in 2009. Frederic also has a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) from Stanford University, which they completed in 2000. Prior to that, they attended the Lycee International de St. Germain-en-Laye, where they completed the French Baccalaureat in 1994.