# James Pham

> James Pham is the co-founder and CEO of Opsin, a San Francisco-area startup securing how enterprises adopt generative AI. After validating the problem through more than 300 conversations with industry leaders, he built Opsin to detect and remediate data oversharing in tools like Microsoft Copilot and Google Gemini, and has since expanded it into a full enterprise agent security platform. An immigrant from Vietnam with an MIT MBA and a machine-learning product background from Abnormal Security, Pham now leads a company in production at regulated healthcare, manufacturing, and financial-services organizations.

- **Role:** Co-Founder and CEO at Opsin
- **Organizations:** Opsin, Abnormal Security, MIT
- **Nationality:** Vietnamese-American
- **Education:** MBA, focus on Data Analytics & Machine Learning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- **Known for:** Co-founded and leads Opsin, a SOC 2 Type II certified enterprise GenAI security platform, Validated the company's problem through 300+ conversations with industry leaders, Deployed Opsin in production at regulated organizations including Wellstar Health System, Barry-Wehmiller, Culligan, Encore Technologies, UiPath, Cascade, and Thryv

## Career timeline

- **~2017** — Began working in AI/ML; taught Advanced Data Analytics and Machine Learning in Finance as a Teaching Assistant at MIT
- **pre-2024** — Senior Product Manager, Machine Learning at Abnormal Security, building ML models to protect customers
- **2024** — Co-founded Opsin with Oz Wasserman and Jeremy Mailen; became CEO
- **2024-11** — Opsin raised seed funding
- **2026-06** — Opsin announced expansion into a full Enterprise Agent Security platform

## Achievements

- Co-founded and leads Opsin, a SOC 2 Type II certified enterprise GenAI security platform
- Validated the company's problem through 300+ conversations with industry leaders
- Deployed Opsin in production at regulated organizations including Wellstar Health System, Barry-Wehmiller, Culligan, Encore Technologies, UiPath, Cascade, and Thryv
- At Barry-Wehmiller, reduced AI prompts referencing overshared data from over 70% to under 20%
- Helped Culligan reduce AI data exposure by roughly 80%
- Previously built world-class ML models as Senior PM at Abnormal Security

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Opsin announced it is leading the 'second generation' of enterprise AI security, expanding from data oversharing into a full Enterprise Agent Security platform as agents move from saying to doing.

## Links

- Website: https://opsinsecurity.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamesopsin/
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFvXcjHSyNs

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Last updated: 2026-06-24