Insurtech Kin has appointed Brett Tighe, chief financial officer of Okta, to its board of directors. At Okta, Tighe oversees the financial strategy behind the company’s path from early growth through its IPO and into its current position as a multibillion-dollar public company.
The appointment signals Kin’s continued focus on building a technology-led business designed for long-term durability and operational discipline.
Before becoming Okta CFO in 2022, Tighe held senior leadership roles at Salesforce, where he worked on corporate finance and strategy during a period of rapid expansion.
Kin chief executive Sean Harper said Tighe understands how to build a company that earns trust at scale. He said moving from early traction to a durable public business depends on getting both financial systems and customer experience right.
Brett knows what it takes to build a company that earns trust at scale. He helps take businesses from early traction to durable public companies, and that requires getting both the financial systems and the customer experience right.
Sean Harper, Kin chief executive
Harper said that matches Kin’s current priorities. As the company expands across home insurance, auto insurance and home financing, he said Tighe’s experience will help strengthen products customers rely on over the long term.
“That’s exactly where we’re focused. As we continue to expand our home insurance, auto insurance, and home financing products, Brett’s experience will help us build solutions our customers can confidently rely on for the long term,” Sean Harper said.
Tighe said trust comes from doing what customers expect, consistently. He said Kin has built a simple and transparent experience, and still has room to improve it as the company grows.
Trust is earned when customers know they can rely on you to do what you say you will. Kin built a simple, transparent experience for customers, and there’s a real opportunity to keep improving it as the company grows.
Brett Tighe, chief financial officer of Okta
He added that he has seen what it takes to build systems and controls that hold up through the transition to public markets, and said he plans to bring that perspective to Kin’s board.
