# Casey Bleeker

> Casey Bleeker is the co-founder and CEO of SurePath AI, a Denver-based startup that helps enterprises adopt generative AI without leaking their secrets to it. He built the company in 2023 around a simple bet: companies will not choose between banning AI and losing control of their data, so SurePath sits at the network edge, governing what employees send to public models and redacting what they should not. Before founding SurePath, Casey ran CDW's $2B+ Cloud and Cloud Native business and held senior roles at Cisco in AI/ML, IoT, and developer advocacy. He is a computational-biology major turned go-to-market operator who codes his own prototypes, and online he is better known as 'geekbleek.'

- **Role:** Co-Founder & CEO at SurePath AI
- **Organizations:** SurePath AI, CDW, IGNW, Cisco, Microsoft ecosystem
- **From:** Kansas, United States
- **Nationality:** American
- **Education:** Bachelor's degree in Computational Biology, University of Colorado, Certificate in Big Data & Social Analytics, MIT
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads SurePath AI, a GenAI governance platform used by enterprises to secure AI adoption, Raised $5.2M seed funding (Nov 2024) led by Uncork Capital with Operator Collective, bringing total funding to ~$6.3M, Ran CDW's $2B+ Cloud & Cloud Native business unit as VP & GM

## Career timeline

- **1980s-90s** — Grows up in central Kansas; gains early hands-on IT experience supporting local businesses with infrastructure and networking
- **2000s** — Consults for over a decade across the Microsoft, public sector, and VAR ecosystems
- **2016** — Delivers keynote on the evolution of natural language understanding at the Chatbot Summit
- **2018** — Builds Cisco's AI/ML Center of Excellence; holds senior roles in M&A, business development, and solutions architecture
- **2020** — Develops an automated contact-center assistant during the Oregon wildfires that identified callers' evacuation zones
- **2020-2023** — Director of Cloud Advocacy and Enablement at IGNW, then VP & GM of CDW's $2B+ Cloud & Cloud Native business after IGNW's acquisition
- **2023** — Co-founds SurePath AI with Randy Birdsall (August 2023) to govern enterprise GenAI usage
- **2024** — Launches the SurePath platform at AWS re:Inforce; announces $5.2M seed round led by Uncork Capital with Operator Collective

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads SurePath AI, a GenAI governance platform used by enterprises to secure AI adoption
- Raised $5.2M seed funding (Nov 2024) led by Uncork Capital with Operator Collective, bringing total funding to ~$6.3M
- Ran CDW's $2B+ Cloud & Cloud Native business unit as VP & GM
- Built Cisco's AI/ML Center of Excellence in 2018
- Keynote speaker at the 2016 Chatbot Summit on natural language understanding
- Launched SurePath's platform at AWS re:Inforce 2024 with partnerships including AWS and Optiv

## Latest updates

- **2024-11** — SurePath AI announced a $5.2M seed round led by Uncork Capital with Operator Collective
- **2025-01** — Featured on CyberScoop's Safe Mode and CyberWire's Caveat podcasts discussing the future of US GenAI regulation
- **2026-02** — Appeared in Channel Insider's Partner POV on accelerating GenAI adoption with zero-trust principles and AWS guardrails

## Links

- Website: https://geekbleek.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geekbleek/
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/geekbleek
- GitHub: https://github.com/geekbleek

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Last updated: 2026-06-25