Praerit Garg

Customer-obsessed business builder, product innovator, and organization coach, Praerit Garg has spent much of his career working at the center of identity, access, and cloud technologies. He and his family have lived in Seattle for three decades. He joined Microsoft in 1995 after leaving a PhD program at Purdue University to work on the Windows NT Security team, where he helped design core components including Active Directory, Kerberos, PKI, EFS, permissions, and Group Policy. He later led identity, directory, and access services at AWS and served on the board of Radiant Logic.

Before becoming Chief Executive Officer of One Identity, Praerit spent six years at Smartsheet, where he guided multi-year product and technology evolution. This included the transition from data center to cloud-native architecture, multi-region scale, DevOps and CI/CD adoption, a shift toward customer-outcomes product innovation, the introduction of AI-first experiences, and a modernization of pricing and packaging aligned to customer ROI. During this period, Smartsheet grew from under $200 million to $1.2 billion in revenue and completed an $8.4 billion private equity transaction.

At One Identity, Praerit brings a people-first, systems-driven approach. He focuses on setting a clear playbook, moving with speed, and making progress visible. He is known for building durable products, scaling teams and leaders, and translating complex problems into reliable, enterprise-grade software that customers trust.

Praerit believes technology should serve people. His focus is straightforward: deliver dependable, easy-to-use capabilities, learn quickly with customers and partners, and win together.