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Abhay Kulkarni
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Abhay Kulkarni is Senior Vice President and General Manager of AI Trust for Cisco. He leads the engineering and product organization responsible for defining the AI Trust category, extending Cisco’s leadership in identity security, and delivering the platform architecture that secures and governs AI across the modern enterprise.
Abhay returned to Cisco following the acquisition of WideField Security, a cybersecurity company he co-founded. The startup was recognized for leveraging identity telemetry to secure identity lifecycle across AI agents, non-human identities, and human identities.
Before founding WideField, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager at Cisco, leading the Webex App business and platform. Prior to Cisco, he was an early executive and VP of Engineering at Netskope, where he helped pioneer the SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) market.
A technologist at heart with over 20 years of experience, Abhay has a proven track record of building and scaling world-class SaaS and cloud security platforms. Abhay holds a B.E. in Computer Engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University.
Abhay Kulkarni is Senior Vice President and General Manager of AI Trust for Cisco. He leads the engineering and product organization responsible for defining the AI Trust category, extending Cisco’s leadership in identity security, and delivering the platform architecture that secures and governs AI across the modern enterprise.
Abhay returned to Cisco following the acquisition of WideField Security, a cybersecurity company he co-founded. The startup was recognized for leveraging identity telemetry to secure identity lifecycle across AI agents, non-human identities, and human identities.
Before founding WideField, he served as Senior Vice President and General Manager at Cisco, leading the Webex App business and platform. Prior to Cisco, he was an early executive and VP of Engineering at Netskope, where he helped pioneer the SASE (Secure Access Service Edge) market.
A technologist at heart with over 20 years of experience, Abhay has a proven track record of building and scaling world-class SaaS and cloud security platforms. Abhay holds a B.E. in Computer Engineering from Savitribai Phule Pune University.
