Concentric AI, a leading provider of AI and data security governance solutions, today announced the appointments of Gary Olson as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) and Will Saso as Vice President of Sales, Americas. The appointments reflect the company’s continued investment in go-to-market leadership as it expands its reach and builds on growing momentum in the AI and data security governance market.

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New Concentric AI CRO Gary Olson has 30+ years of experience leading and scaling category-defining security companies across every layer of the modern security stack—cloud, application, network, endpoint, threat intelligence, and identity.

New Concentric AI CRO Gary Olson has 30+ years of experience leading and scaling category-defining security companies across every layer of the modern security stack—cloud, application, network, endpoint, threat intelligence, and identity.

As Chief Revenue Officer, Mr. Olson leads the company’s global go-to-market strategy for its AI and data security governance solutions. He focuses on scaling the company’s go-to-market organization, deepening relationships with enterprise and strategic accounts, and positioning Concentric AI as the category leader in AI and data security governance.

“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 the Concentric AI sales organization across the U.S., Canada, and Latin America, with a focus on increasing revenue and expanding the company’s customer base throughout the region.

“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 Gary Olson

Mr. Olson has 30+ years of experience leading and scaling category-defining security companies across every layer of the modern security stack—cloud, application, network, endpoint, threat intelligence, identity, and now AI and data security governance. Before Concentric AI, Mr. Olson served as Chief Revenue Officer at Sysdig, and previously he was CRO at Snyk, where he led a global team of over 300 to reach the $300M ARR milestone. Following AT&T’s acquisition of AlienVault, as Vice President of Global Sales at AT&T Cybersecurity, Mr. Olson led more than 500 sellers across the Americas, EMEA, and APAC. Mr. Olson was also part of the executive leadership team that took Zscaler public in 2018, serving as VP & GM of Worldwide Sales for the cloud-delivered zero trust pioneer.

About Will Saso

Mr. Saso brings 25+ years of enterprise technology sales leadership, nearly all spent scaling cybersecurity companies through their highest-growth phases. Most recently, he served as VP of Sales, Americas, at Sysdig, where he rose from leading the West Region to overseeing all Americas revenue. Previously, he spent six years at Duo Security as VP of Sales, West, helping build one of the fastest-growing SaaS security companies and contributing to its $2.35B acquisition by Cisco. He has also led worldwide sales at Censys and Cyberhaven. Earlier in his career, he was promoted four times over six years at Business Objects.

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. For more information, visit https://www.concentric.ai.

Concentric AI, Semantic Intelligence™ are or may be registered trademarks of Concentric AI, Inc. All other marks and names mentioned herein may be trademarks of their respective companies.

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