California’s artificial intelligence industry includes security leaders working across frontier model development, enterprise AI platforms, data infrastructure, observability, and AI-native software products. The executives in this feature bring experience from high-growth startups, major technology companies, cloud-native environments, offensive security, incident response, compliance, and product security. Their backgrounds reflect how AI security leadership now spans not only traditional cybersecurity functions, but also the technical and operational demands of securing data pipelines, model-driven platforms, cloud environments, and fast-scaling AI businesses.
Alex Levinson — Head of Security, Scale AI
Alex Levinson is head of security at Scale AI, where he oversees all aspects of security for the company. His background combines technical depth across security, software, and infrastructure, along with experience in incident response, forensics, infrastructure security, DevOps, automation, offensive security, red teaming, and large-scale engineering. Before joining Scale AI in 2020, he spent nearly five years at Uber, where he was the founding engineer of the Security Response Team and later held leadership responsibilities spanning incident response, investigations, detection, detection platforms, red team, cloud security, and enterprise security. Earlier roles at Lares, Bluebox Security, Zynga, and Katana Forensics reflect a career that includes consultancy, tool development, infrastructure security, application security, and security engineering in complex technical environments.
Remi Cattiau — Chief Information Security Officer, Arize AI
Remi Cattiau is chief information security officer at Arize AI, where he leads security across compliance, application security, contract negotiation, cloud security, risk management, and third-party assessments. His current remit includes programs tied to PCI, HiTrust, and SOC 2, as well as penetration testing, bug bounty initiatives, and cloud security controls. Before joining Arize AI in 2021, he was chief information security officer at Nuxeo, where he achieved PCI DSS, HiTrust, and SOC 2 compliance and scaled the team and processes alongside company growth. His earlier background includes leadership in security program development, implementation of identity and internal security measures, SaaS product management, cloud product development, and secure electronic exchange solutions.
Pablo Vega — Head of Security, Julius AI
Pablo Vega is head of security at Julius AI, where he is the company’s first security hire and owns end-to-end security and compliance strategy. He is based in San Francisco and brings more than 15 years of experience across application security, cloud security, corporate security, incident response, infrastructure security, and vulnerability management. Before joining Julius AI in 2025, he led security at PathAI, overseeing application security, business continuity and disaster recovery, cloud security, data loss prevention, data privacy and governance, incident response, infrastructure security, ISO 27001, vendor risk management, and vulnerability management. Earlier roles at Blackhawk Network, Recurly, Fitbit, Twitter, the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, and Banco Sabadell show a long record in vulnerability management, penetration testing, SIEM operations, cloud security, security architecture reviews, and compliance-focused security work.
Khash Kiani — Vice President and Head of Security, Trust, and IT, ASAPP
Khash Kiani is vice president and head of security, trust, and IT at ASAPP, where he leads efforts to secure the company’s AI technology, SaaS products, and infrastructure. His focus is on building and maintaining enterprise customer trust through security and integrity measures tied to AI products and global infrastructure. Before joining ASAPP in 2024, he served as chief information security officer at Business Wire, global head of cybersecurity at Juul Labs, and executive director of product security at both Micro Focus and Hewlett Packard Enterprise. His background also includes work as principal of cyber security at Kaiser Permanente and earlier software and engineering roles, giving him experience across product security, enterprise security, and the broader trust and security requirements of technology platforms.
Devin Ertel — Chief Information Security Officer, Moloco
Devin Ertel is chief information security officer at Moloco, bringing more than 20 years of information security leadership experience across fintech, federal government, consulting, retail, and SaaS. Before joining Moloco in 2025, he served as chief information security officer at Menlo Security and Blackhawk Network, and earlier led security and information technology at Guidebook. His background also includes consulting leadership at Mandiant and security leadership roles tied to the Federal Reserve System, where he managed vulnerability assessments, penetration tests, and NIST 800-53 risk assessments. Across those roles, his work has included application testing, source code reviews, network penetration, red team development, incident response planning, product security advocacy, privacy and regulatory coordination, and customer-facing security support.
Henry Levin — Acting Chief Information Security Officer, Aisera
Henry Levin is head of security, compliance, and information technology, serving as acting chief information security officer at Aisera. His career spans more than 25 years across enterprise architecture, cloud transformation, infrastructure security, and executive security leadership. At Aisera, he leads security, compliance, and information technology for a company focused on generative AI, conversational AI, and automation for enterprise customer and employee experience. Before joining Aisera in 2024, he was head of infrastructure security at Instacart and previously held architecture and security roles at Autodesk. Earlier positions at PACE Anti-Piracy, Avid Technology, Contact Networks, and NVIDIA reflect a long background in systems architecture, online services, infrastructure, and engineering.
AI Security Leadership in California Is Expanding Fast
The leaders in this feature show how cybersecurity in California’s artificial intelligence industry now reaches far beyond baseline enterprise protection. Their work covers incident response, product and platform security, cloud architecture, compliance, trust, infrastructure, and security strategy inside companies building or enabling AI systems at scale. As the industry continues to evolve, these are the kinds of leaders shaping how security operates inside some of the most important AI businesses in California.
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