
The Salt Security executive started in engineering, learned marketing through mentorship, and now turns APIs, AI agents, and invisible attack surfaces into problems a boardroom can understand.

After scaling clouds for tens of millions of users, Abhay Kulkarni returned to cybersecurity with a stubborn question: why do defenses stop watching at the moment an identity gets in? WideField followed the session instead - all the way back to Cisco.

A career spent selling security taught Brooke Motta to listen for the gap between a new technology and the tools meant to protect it. RAD Security began on a Flagstaff trail and now follows behavior across cloud workloads and AI agents.

After helping scale cloud security into a platform, Ankur Shah saw the next boundary move again. At Straiker, he is designing defenses for AI agents that can reason, reach into company systems and act on their own.