Paul Gaffney Joins Teleport’s Board of Directors to Support Growth and Innovation in Infrastructure Identity

San Francisco, CA, March 13, 2025 – Teleport, the leader in infrastructure identity, today announced that Paul Gaffney has joined its Board of Directors. A technology and operations veteran with deep expertise in digital transformation, security, and cloud infrastructure, Gaffney will help guide Teleport’s strategic growth as the company continues to redefine how enterprises manage and govern identity, access and policy across their datacenters and cloud operations.

Gaffney has spent decades driving innovation in large-scale technology organizations, previously serving as Chief Technology and Supply Chain Officer at Kohl’s, as well as holding senior technology leadership roles at Omni Logistics, DICK’S Sporting Goods, The Home Depot, Charles Schwab, AAA, and Office Depot. His deep experience in infrastructure and enterprise technology leadership positions him to support Teleport’s mission to make distributed computing trustworthy.

“We are at a turning point in how organizations manage identity and access for modern infrastructure,” said Gaffney. “The old way of handling credentials, secrets, and access policies simply doesn’t work in today’s cloud-native world, given the scale and complexity of infrastructure environments. Teleport’s approach—where unified infrastructure identity for both humans and machines is the foundation of security—solves one of the most pressing engineering security challenges. I’m excited to join the board and help shape the future of infrastructure identity.”

As the modern infrastructure that governs critical business operations scales in complexity, traditional perimeter- and credentials-based security models introduce an exponentially increasing risk of human error and compromise. By pioneering infrastructure identity, Teleport is leading the way for organizations to enforce zero-trust, least privileged access for humans and machines without passwords, VPNs, or anonymous accounts. This shift is critical for organizations seeking to transform their security posture, improve operational and engineering efficiency, and accelerate compliance for regulatory standards such as FedRAMP, SOC 2, ISO 27001, and DORA.

“Paul’s leadership in large-scale technology operations and his deep experience in digital transformation make him an invaluable addition to our board,” said Ev Kontsevoy, CEO and co-founder of Teleport. “As we continue to grow and help enterprises modernize their security architecture, Paul’s insights will help accelerate our mission to make infrastructure identity the new security standard.”

For more information about Teleport and its mission to modernize identity, access, and policy for infrastructure, visit goteleport.com.

About Teleport

Teleport is the Infrastructure Identity Company, modernizing identity, access, and policy for infrastructure, improving engineering velocity and infrastructure resiliency against human factors and compromise. The Teleport Infrastructure Identity Platform implements trusted computing at scale, with unified cryptographic identities for humans, machines and workloads, endpoints, infrastructure assets, and AI agents. Our identity-everywhere approach vertically integrates access management, zero trust networking, identity governance, and identity security into a single platform, eliminating overhead and operational silos. Headquartered in Oakland, CA, Teleport operates globally, with industry-leading customers such as Nasdaq, Moody’s, Adobe, and Elastic. For more information, visit www.goteleport.com or follow @goteleport.