Summary
Clayton Donley is a seasoned technology executive and product leader with over two decades building and managing identity, access, and security software at scale. He founded and scaled OctetString from scratch to acquisition by Oracle, then led global engineering and product teams at Oracle, CA Technologies, and Broadcom driving directory services, IAM, PAM, API management and AIOps portfolios. As VP and General Manager of Broadcom’s IMS division he oversees a diverse set of security and IT operations businesses, combining R&D, product management and go-to-market leadership. He is equally comfortable in hands-on engineering and strategic M&A/integration work, having led multiple acquisitions and product integrations across enterprise and cloud security lines. Based in Beijing with a background that includes early international IT architecture work at Motorola, he brings a global perspective to product strategy and customer engagement. Colleagues know him for entrepreneurial grit—writing the first version of his company’s product himself—and for sustaining long-term relationships with customers, analysts and partners.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Business, BA, Business at DePaul University
Chinese, English