Levent Besik is the VP of Product for External Identities & Identity Developer and Platform business unit. In that capacity, he’s responsible for business and product strategy for Microsoft Entra External Identities, Entra’s Customer Identity and Access Management solution, Identity Developer and App Platform, as well as powering the world’s largest Enterprise API platform - MS Graph. Levent’s career has revolved around his long-time professional curiosities in identity, ML and building platforms. Prior to Microsoft, he served as a product executive at Okta, Google and his own startups for various Identity and ML-based products. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science with minors in Math & Physics, and an MBA from Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley.