Concentric AI, a leading provider of AI and data security governance solutions, today announced the appointments of Gary Olson as Chief Revenue Officer and Will Saso as Vice President of Sales, Americas. The appointments reflect company's continued investment in go-to-market leadership as it expands reach and builds on growing momentum in AI and data security governance market. The announcement was made from San Jose, California.
As Chief Revenue Officer, Mr. Olson leads company's global go-to-market strategy for AI and data security governance solutions. He focuses on scaling go-to-market organization, deepening relationships with enterprise and strategic accounts, and positioning Concentric AI as category leader in AI and data security governance.
Olson has 30+ years experience leading and scaling category-defining security companies across every layer of modern security stack. Before Concentric AI, served as CRO at Sysdig and previously CRO at Snyk where led global team of over 300 to reach $300M ARR milestone. Following AT&T acquisition of AlienVault, as VP Global Sales at AT&T Cybersecurity, led more than 500 sellers. Part of executive team that took Zscaler public in 2018 as VP and GM Worldwide Sales.
"What drew me to the company isn't just the technology; it's the chance to continue building something category-defining alongside an experienced team and with a clear vision for where the market is headed," said Mr. Olson. "That's the kind of inflection point I've gravitated toward throughout my career, and it's exactly what I see at Concentric AI. The company is uniquely poised to help organizations address the evolving data security challenges created by AI, and I couldn't be more excited to help drive its next phase of growth."
As Vice President of Sales, Americas, Mr. Saso leads Concentric AI sales organization across US, Canada, and Latin America with focus on increasing revenue and expanding customer base throughout region. Most recently served as VP Sales, Americas at Sysdig, previously spent six years at Duo Security as VP Sales West helping build one of fastest-growing SaaS security companies contributing to $2.35B acquisition by Cisco. Has also led worldwide sales at Censys and Cyberhaven.
"What excites me about this opportunity is the chance to bring transformative technology to more organizations while building the team and go-to-market engine needed to support long-term growth," said Mr. Saso. "Concentric AI has a compelling technology and significant market opportunity and I'm excited to help build on that momentum and expand the company's presence across the Americas."
"It is a pleasure to welcome Gary and Will to Concentric AI's executive team," said Karthik Krishnan, Founder and CEO of Concentric AI. "Every company reaches a moment when the right additions to the leadership team can accelerate its momentum, and this is ours. Gary and Will bring deep experience that will sharpen our focus as we continue to scale and meet the growing demand for AI and data security governance."
About Concentric AI
Concentric AI enables organizations to accelerate safe AI adoption through its unified AI and data security governance platform. Powered by the Semantic Intelligence Engine's patented language models, the platform discovers, governs, and protects business-critical and compliance-sensitive data at rest, in motion, and used by AI through a consistent policy framework.
