# Ché Wijesinghe

> Ché Wijesinghe is the CEO of Cape.ai (formerly Cape Privacy), a New York and Halifax based company that builds AI for confidentially processing sensitive data across vision, voice and language models. A 25-year veteran of the enterprise software industry, he has led field operations and revenue at data and analytics companies including Cisco, Composite Software, OmniSci/HEAVY.ai and Neokami before taking the helm at Cape, where he has steered the company from an encrypted machine learning platform toward AI tools for document validation, compliance and financial services.

- **Role:** CEO at Cape.ai
- **Organizations:** Cape.ai (Cape Privacy), boldstart ventures (advisor)
- **Education:** Bachelor of Engineering, Design Engineering, London South Bank University
- **Known for:** Named CEO of Cape by its board for his track record bringing deep tech products to market, Led Cape's $20M Series A, part of roughly $27M raised from investors including Evolution Equity Partners, Tiger Global and boldstart ventures, Built and led global field operations at multiple data and analytics companies acquired by larger players (Composite Software by Cisco, Neokami by Relayr/Munich Re)

## Career timeline

- **2008** — Joined Composite Software as EVP of Worldwide Field Operations (acquired by Cisco in 2013)
- **2013** — Led global sales for Cisco's Data and Analytics Group following the Composite Software acquisition
- **2017** — Became SVP of Global Field Operations at OmniSci (now HEAVY.ai)
- **2018** — Cape Privacy founded by Gavin Uhma, Ben DeCoste and Morten Dahl
- **2019** — Served as President and COO at Neokami (acquired by Relayr/Munich Re) and CRO at Datalogue
- **2020** — Appointed CEO of Cape Privacy
- **2021** — Led Cape Privacy's $20M Series A round in April
- **2024** — Steered the company's evolution into Cape.ai, focused on AI for document validation and compliance

## Achievements

- Named CEO of Cape by its board for his track record bringing deep tech products to market
- Led Cape's $20M Series A, part of roughly $27M raised from investors including Evolution Equity Partners, Tiger Global and boldstart ventures
- Built and led global field operations at multiple data and analytics companies acquired by larger players (Composite Software by Cisco, Neokami by Relayr/Munich Re)
- Repositioned Cape from an encrypted machine learning research platform into an applied AI company for financial services and compliance

## Latest updates

- **2024** — Cape rebranded toward Cape.ai, focusing on AI for document validation, fraud detection, due diligence and regulatory reporting using private LLMs deployable on-premise or in the cloud.

## Links

- Website: https://cape.ai
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cwijesinghe
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/CheWijesinghe

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Last updated: 2026-07-22