Ian Swanson is Vice President of AI Security Products at Palo Alto Networks, where he leads strategy and product innovation to secure the next generation of artificial intelligence applications. He joined Palo Alto Networks following its acquisition of Protect AI, the company he founded and led as CEO, which became the industry’s leading platform for managing risk and securing AI and machine learning environments end-to-end.

Before founding Protect AI, Ian built and scaled global AI businesses at Amazon Web Services, where he led worldwide AI and ML, and at Oracle, where he served as Vice President of Machine Learning. Earlier in his career, he was the CEO and Founder of DataScience.com, an enterprise data science platform acquired by Oracle in 2018, and the CEO of Sometrics, acquired by American Express. Ian has also held executive roles at American Express and Sprint.