
The ARMO co-founder took a winding route from compression code to the boardroom, then bet that cloud security would work better if developers could inspect it, try it and shape it themselves.

After one startup crossed continents and closed, the information systems engineer returned with a quieter proposition: in finance, the most useful AI may be the one checking everyone else’s work.
Tomer Weingarten is the co-founder, chairman, president, and CEO of SentinelOne, the publicly traded cybersecurity company he started in 2013 to replace signature-based antivirus with autonomous, AI-driven endpoint protection. An engineer by trade, Israeli outsider by background, he scaled the company from a Tel Aviv kitchen-table idea to a NYSE-listed business crossing $1B in ARR, betting the platform on agentic AI through Purple AI and Wayfinder.