- Role
- Deputy CISO
- Joined Anthropic
- 2023
- Before Anthropic
Career
- Anthropic
- Deputy CISOCurrent
- Chief Information Security Officer, Anthropic's firstApr 2023
- Google
- Led Chrome infrastructure security; earlier worked on ChromeOS and Android Paynearly 12 years
Lesser-known facts
- Wrote Ruby Phrasebook and contributed to the GNOME project.
- Was Anthropic's first CISO and now serves as its deputy CISO.
- Worked early in his career on digital coupons, Beowulf cluster computing and secure thin clients.
- Predicted in April 2025 that AI virtual employees, with their own memories and company logins, would arrive within a year.
- Told DEF CON in 2026 that an open-weights model with Mythos-level offensive cyber capabilities was "approximately three to six months away."
- Warned that security teams face "roughly 18 to 24 months of pain" as AI shifts how cybersecurity operates.
- Calls Anthropic's equity pledge program "the principal reason that I left Google for Anthropic."
Known for
- Ruby Phrasebook (author)
- Lessons from Enterprise GenAI Adoption Journeys (co-author)
Sources1databricks.com
