
The marketer behind MuleSoft's public-market chapter has made a career of translating difficult technology into a reason to care. At Redpanda, her new assignment is trust - the stubborn gap between an impressive AI demo and software a company will actually let near its data.
Rick Caccia is CEO and co-founder of WitnessAI, the Mountain View-based AI security company that raised $85.5M total (including a $58M round from Sound Ventures and Ashton Kutcher in January 2026) and delivered 500%+ ARR growth in 12 months. A Silicon Valley native with multiple UC Berkeley degrees, Caccia spent two decades in cybersecurity product and marketing leadership at Palo Alto Networks, Google (founding CMO for Chronicle), Exabeam, Red Canary, ArcSight, and Symantec before pivoting to the CEO seat to build purpose-built security guardrails for enterprise AI.