Who are 1Password's decision-makers?

David Faugno became sole CEO in July 2025, having served as President and COO (September 2023) then co-CEO alongside Jeff Shiner (November 2024). His background is in SaaS finance and operations: he was EVP and CFO at Qualtrics, where he orchestrated the $8 billion SAP acquisition and NYSE IPO, and previously CFO at Barracuda Networks where he guided 11 acquisitions. His prior Accel partnership — he was a partner when Accel led the 1Password Series A — made him a natural choice to prepare the company for a public market debut.

CTO Nancy Wang (appointed January 2026) brings deep engineering leadership from AWS, where she ran the Data Protection business and scaled it from $0 to $1 billion ARR in five years. She holds seven patents in cloud infrastructure and is also a Felicis Ventures venture partner and founder of Advancing Women in Tech. CPO Abe Ankumah joined in March 2025 with an enterprise product background spanning Meraki (Cisco), Aruba Networks, and VMware — where he arrived via his AIOps startup Nyansa (Caltech BS, Harvard MBA).

Co-founder Jeff Shiner, who grew 1Password from 20 employees to approximately 1,400 as CEO from 2012 to 2025, transitioned to Executive Chair in July 2025 and serves as agentic AI board sponsor. Co-founders Dave Teare and Roustem Karimov founded the company in Toronto in 2005 and remain associated with 1Password; Karimov participated in the October 2025 secondary transaction, monetizing a portion of his founder stake.

For security and identity technology purchases, Jacob DePriest (CISO/CIO) owns the security operations and information security budget and is the primary technical stakeholder. His background — VP Deputy CSO at GitHub and senior NSA official — means he evaluates vendors with an unusually rigorous security bar. Infrastructure and developer tooling decisions involve Nancy Wang (CTO) and her engineering leadership team.

Enterprise SaaS procurement broadly sits with Greg Henry's finance team, with escalating sign-off thresholds at VP, SVP, and C-suite levels. For strategic partnerships, platform integrations, or large enterprise vendor contracts, the decision chain escalates to the President level and David Faugno (CEO). John Torrey (Chief Business Officer) owns channel and technology alliance relationships, making him the right entry point for reseller and platform partnership deals.

1Password's procurement process is maturing ahead of an anticipated IPO — vendors should expect formal RFP cycles, SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 security reviews, legal due diligence, and finance sign-off for any six-figure-plus annual contract. The company's internal security team will scrutinize a vendor's own security posture with the same rigor it applies to customer deployments.

1Password operates as a remote-first company with approximately 2,950 employees distributed across more than 30 countries. The company has evolved from a flat founder-led structure to a functionally divided executive team with dedicated leaders for product, engineering, finance, security, sales, and channel — a structure designed to meet public-company governance requirements.

The 2024–2026 acquisition spree (Kolide, Trelica, Apono) has added engineering hubs in Boston, London, New York, and Tel Aviv. Each acquired team retained its original culture and location rather than being assimilated into a central office, creating a multi-hub engineering organization. The channel function (under John Torrey, CBO) is scaling through a Global Partner Program launched in February 2026, indicating a deliberate shift toward indirect revenue as the company targets mid-market scale efficiently.

More than 75% of revenue is enterprise, and the enterprise sales motion is organized around dedicated account teams for Fortune 1000 accounts with defined territories, reflecting the shift away from pure product-led growth toward a hybrid PLG-plus-field model appropriate for a company at $400M+ ARR.