For more than 20 years, Shashi Mysore has worked on a fundamental security problem: understanding how information flows through complex systems, and ensuring it goes only where it is supposed to go. His award-winning research on Data Flow Tomography and subsequent work in information-flow tracking anticipated challenges that are now becoming central to securing AI, as organizations give models and autonomous agents access to increasingly sensitive enterprise data.  Shashi’s experience includes a combination of deep technical research with a sustained track record of turning that research into real-world businesses. He has built and commercialized deep-technology companies, achieved successful exits, and led large technology businesses, including major business units at Hewlett Packard Enterprise.  

Most recently, Shashi was the Chief Operating Officer at Symmetry Systems, where he helped build and grow the company and its data and AI security platform. Symmetry was subsequently acquired by Zscaler, bringing its technology and expertise into one of the world’s leading cloud security platforms. Shashi is now Head of Product (Data + AI) Commercialization at Zscaler, focused on growing innovative security technologies into enterprise products and solutions for the AI era.