Your data can do more.

Innovation is happening faster than ever and it’s essential that data access is given to the people who need it most. Yet, understanding who is using it and how it is being used is always of critical concern.

With Okera, agility and governance doesn’t have to be an “either–or” decision. With greater visibility and control, you can unlock the potential that data has to drive innovation. Because when data becomes your greatest asset, you can can change the way your business and the world works.

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Executive Team

Amandeep Khurana

CEO and Co-founder

Amandeep founded Okera in 2016 with CTO and co-founder Nong Li. While supporting customer initiatives at Cloudera and involved in product development at AWS, Amandeep witnessed first-hand the challenges companies faced in adopting big data and cloud technologies. This experience, along with the goal to empower people and businesses through easy data access, led him to start Okera.

Amandeep is also the co-author of HBase in Action, a book on building applications on HBase. He is passionate about distributed systems, big data, and helping customers get value out of new technology.

Nong Li

CTO and Co-founder

Nong founded Okera in 2016 with CEO and co-founder Amandeep Khurana. Prior to Okera, he was on the engineering team at Databricks, where he led performance engineering for Spark core and SparkSQL. Prior to Databricks, Nong was the tech lead for the Impala project at Cloudera and also the author of the Record Service project. Nong is also one of the original authors of the Apache Parquet project and mentors several Apache projects, including Apache Arrow. Nong has a degree in computer science from Brown University.

Board Members

Ethan Kurzweil

Partner, Bessemer Venture Partners

Board Member

Ethan Kurzweil is a partner at Bessemer Venture Partners where he invests in developer platforms and consumer tech startups. Ethan has served on the board of leading platform companies including Intercom, PagerDuty, Periscope Data, Applitools, Twitch (acq. by Amazon), and Periscope (acq. by Twitter) and was actively involved in Bessemer’s investments in public companies Twilio and Sendgrid.

Wesley Chan

Managing Partner, Felicis Ventures

Board Member

Wesley Chan is a Managing Director at Felicis Ventures. He has led investment rounds and holds board or observer seats in Canva, CultureAmp, and Dialpad. As an early employee at Google, he founded and launched Google Analytics and Google Voice, which reach tens of millions of users worldwide.

News

Forbes
How Okera Distills The Beauty Of Spreadsheets And SQL
September 13, 2018
Information Management
GDPR compliance the perfect opportunity to modernize data architecture
August 13, 2018
Information Management
GDPR presents perfect opportunity to rethink data architecture
June 6, 2018
Medium
Unifying Data Across Large Enterprises: Our investment in Okera
May 30, 2018
Datanami
Okera Emerges from Stealth with Big Data Fabric
May 23, 2018
TechCrunch
Okera raises $12M to simplify data governance with companies
May 22, 2018
SiliconANGLE
Okera launches from stealth mode to solve enterprises' data governance problem
May 22, 2018
Database Trends & Applications
Data Management Startup Okera Emerges from Stealth with $14.6 Million in Funding
May 22, 2018