One Identity appoints Randy Menon as product chief

One Identity has appointed Randy Menon as chief product and marketing officer, adding another senior executive to the identity security company's leadership team.

Based at the Cork-headquartered business, Menon will oversee product management and marketing, with responsibility for its identity and access management and privileged access management products. The role comes as customers face a growing need to govern machine identities and agentic AI alongside human users.

His appointment follows a series of leadership hires at One Identity. Earlier this year, the company named Gihan Munasinghe chief technology officer and Mike Henricks chief financial officer, after appointing Praerit Garg chief executive last year.

Menon joins from Tanium, where he was senior vice president of product and led product strategy and development across the company's endpoint management and security platform. Earlier in his career, he held senior vice president and general manager roles at TIBCO and Cloud Software Group, overseeing global product, engineering and operations teams during platform modernisation efforts.

One Identity is positioning the hire as part of a broader effort to reshape its product portfolio around demand for software-as-a-service delivery. Organisations are moving away from network-centred security models and toward approaches that place identity controls at the centre of security operations.

That shift is being driven in part by the rise of non-human identities across corporate systems, including software agents and AI-based tools that can take actions inside business applications. These identities are increasing quickly across customer environments, creating new governance and access control challenges.

"Randy is a product leader with decades of operational experience and has developed a strong instinct and mechanism to deeply understand what customers want," said Praerit Garg, chief executive of One Identity.

"The way enterprises manage both human and non-human identities is changing faster than at any point in the last decade. It is critical that our products continue to grow in step with those challenges. Randy will play a central role in aligning our product innovation and go-to-market strategy to help customers simplify and strengthen their identity security posture," Garg said.

One Identity is investing in products that allow customers to monitor and govern activity across environments where machine and agentic identities are becoming more common. It is also aiming to strengthen a SaaS-first portfolio while continuing to serve organisations that have historically used on-premise deployments.

One Identity serves more than 11,000 organisations managing more than 500 million identities. Its core areas include identity governance and administration, as well as privileged access management, which focuses on controlling and auditing access to sensitive systems and accounts.

Menon linked his move to the broader changes taking place in enterprise security.

"The scope of what enterprises are being asked to secure has changed enormously in the last few years," said Randy Menon, chief product and marketing officer at One Identity.

"AI is now taking real actions inside core business systems, and non-human identities have come to outnumber employees on most networks. The traditional perimeter no longer offers much protection. Identity is the layer that ties all of it together, and One Identity has the platform and the customer base to lead through this shift. That's why I am here," Menon said.

He also pointed to changing customer demand for managed delivery models rather than systems that require in-house operation.

"Customer expectations are shifting toward fully managed, SaaS-delivered solutions that remove operational burden and allow organisations to focus on their core business priorities. One Identity is going deeper on its SaaS-first approach to meet this demand, offering the technical depth customers have historically expected from on-prem without asking them to run it themselves. By bringing product and marketing under a single leader, One Identity is shortening the distance between what customers want and what we deliver," Menon said.