Cameron Burks is the Vice President for Global Workplace and Safety at Okta, where he leads enterprise physical security, health and safety, corporate real estate and workplace operations. Before Okta, Cameron held corporate security and workplace vice president roles at Roku and Adobe, and was Deputy Chief Security Officer at Chevron Corporation.

Cameron transitioned to corporate security executive leadership from the U.S. Department of State. He was a career member of the Foreign Service and a Special Agent with the Diplomatic Security Service.

While serving abroad at U.S. embassies as the Regional Security Officer (RSO), Cameron was the senior American diplomat responsible for leading the protection of people and facilities; the U.S. Government’s counterintelligence, cybersecurity and counterterrorism programs; bilateral law enforcement and security service liaison programs, and more. He was appointed as RSO in Bangladesh, Moldova and Japan.

Cameron worked in Washington, DC, as the Chief of Staff to the Bureau of Diplomatic Security and liaison to the National Security Council. He was also the State Department’s international senior security assistant to the Speaker of the House of Representatives. Early in his career, Cameron served on the U.S. Secretary of State’s protective detail and led federal criminal investigations around the world.

Cameron holds an appointment as a Network Affiliate at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. He currently maintains a U.S. government security clearance and regularly engages across the U.S. intelligence community. Cameron was elected as Mayor, Vice Mayor and Council Member of his city of Lafayette, California from 2016 to 2020.

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