Phil Turner

Vice President, EMEA Sales

Philip Turner is the Vice President of Europe, the Middle East and Africa at Okta. He is responsible for building and managing a dynamic local team to enable Okta's expansion plans in Europe. Prior to Okta, Phil served as the EMEA Sales Director at Nimble Storage, the Backup and Recovery Solutions division country manager for the United Kingdom and Ireland at EMC, and the EMEA Regional Director at Acopia Networks. He also has experience as Sales Executive and District Manager at Network Appliance, where he was also one of the first European employees, bringing 20 years of experience in building and scaling enterprise businesses across the UK and mainland Europe to Okta.

Phil earned his bachelor's degree in European history and German from Thames Valley University in London. Philip loves anything with an engine and is an avid motorsport fan, he also enjoys cycling.

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Celebrating Our New London Office

When we opened our first Okta office in London, nearly three years ago, it was a 100-square-foot room with eight desks. But times they are a changin’. We recently moved into our brand new office in the centre of London, which seats up to 100 people — a clear sign of our continued growth in EMEA. Because we could not have reached this milestone…

MFA 101: Leaving Passwords Behind

Cloud technology is growing at unprecedented levels — and as a result businesses are changing the way they work, seeing an increasing number of employees use mobile devices to access both personal and work related information. While these changes enable workers to be more productive, they also bring security concerns for IT departments tasked with…

EMEA Events Season: Cloud, Mobile, Security, Oh My!

At Okta, we’re firm believers in the value of getting out and getting to know our customers. Our success depends on their success. Luckily, there’s barely a week that goes by without an exciting IT event that gives us the chance to do so. In Europe, the next couple of months is all about underpinning our expansion into the continent by attending…

UK Businesses: It’s Time to Ban Your Mother’s Maiden Name

Last month we released our first ever “Businesses @ Work” Report, which shares findings from our network of 4,000 applications, thousands of custom integrations and millions of daily authentications and verifications around the world. Our dataset identifies several fascinating industry trends for those making or considering significant investment…

Instead Of Banning BYOD, Enable It Securely

In a document released this year by British intelligence and security organisation, GCHQ, it was revealed that the firm has called for firms to ban BYOD. In the report, the organisation claims staff represent the “weakest link in the security chain” and can, whether it is intentional or not, be responsible for leaking data to foreign espionage…

Bringing Town Hall to the Cloud: How Okta Helped Peterborough City Council Make the Move

The structure of your local town hall meetings – attendees presenting ideas, voicing opinions and airing grievances to elected officials – may not have changed much over the past decade, but it’s likely the structure of your local council’s IT has. Peterborough City Council’s certainly has. Peterborough City Council, the local authority of…

#EUCloudSummit – The View from the Top

Readers of the Okta blog and our social channels will know that last week was a big one for the European Okta team as we hosted our inaugural European Cloud Summit. Over 120 delegates packed into the Churchill War Rooms in London to hear panel discussions with some of the formative thinkers and decision makers in IT. (You can see the full lineup…