{"id":234283,"date":"2026-04-22T07:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-22T11:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/protegrity-expands-team-to-advance-ai-innovation-and-data-protection\/"},"modified":"2026-04-22T08:20:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-22T12:20:13","slug":"protegrity-expands-team-to-advance-ai-innovation-and-data-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/22\/protegrity-expands-team-to-advance-ai-innovation-and-data-protection\/","title":{"rendered":"Protegrity Expands Team to Advance AI Innovation and Data Protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecurity-insiders.com\/protegrity-expands-team-to-advance-ai-innovation-and-data-protection\/\">Protegrity Expands Team to Advance AI Innovation and Data Protection<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecurity-insiders.com\/protegrity-expands-team-to-advance-ai-innovation-and-data-protection\/\">https:\/\/www.cybersecurity-insiders.com\/protegrity-expands-team-to-advance-ai-innovation-and-data-protection\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-04-22 07:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.cybersecurity-insiders.com\">www.cybersecurity-insiders.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Protegrity, building on its global leadership in data protection and privacy, today announced a series of strategic hires to accelerate its expansion into AI security. The company is investing in top talent across AI, cybersecurity and emerging technologies, bringing deep expertise in areas including AI and quantum computing to strengthen its ability to deliver trusted, privacy-first solutions at scale.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe difference between being an AI security company and being a fake AI security company comes down core competence, opportunity to explore new use cases, and most important, AI talent.\u201d said Michael Howard, CEO of Protegrity. \u201cWith these new experts onboard, on top of our core competence in data security, plus working on bleeding edge use case, like semantic tokenization on Knowledge Graphs, we are ahead of the pack, with an audacious future before us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new team additions are as follows:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Sameer Tiwari, Chief Technology Officer (CTO)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Sameer is a veteran technology leader with 30 years of experience across distributed systems, big data, cloud, and large-scale databases. He has held senior roles at Meta, MariaDB, and Salesforce. At Protegrity, he brings a record of delivering resilient technology platforms at a global scale, combined with expertise in data governance and compliance. His ability to align complex technical architectures with evolving business and regulatory demands strengthens Protegrity\u2019s GenAI infrastructure with trust, scalability and long-term resilience.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u2022 <strong>Saravana (SK) Krishnamurthy, Senior Vice President (SVP) of Product Management<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>SK is a seasoned product and technology leader with more than 30 years of experience building and scaling data-driven platforms across Big Data, AI\/ML, databases, data security and cloud technologies. He has held senior product leadership roles at SkySQL, MariaDB, BlueData (acquired by HPE), Xplain.io (acquired by Cloudera) and Pivotal\/Greenplum, as well as at Cisco&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecurity-insiders.com\/protegrity-expands-team-to-advance-ai-innovation-and-data-protection\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Protegrity Expands Team to Advance AI Innovation and Data Protection https:\/\/www.cybersecurity-insiders.com\/protegrity-expands-team-to-advance-ai-innovation-and-data-protection\/ Publish Date: 2026-04-22 07:43:00&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":234284,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.cybersecurity-insiders.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/data-security-3-1.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[20,28,57],"class_list":["post-234283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cybersecurity","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-data-security","tag-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=234283"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234285,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/234283\/revisions\/234285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/234284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=234283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=234283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=234283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}