Cybersecurity Leaders to Watch in California’s Artificial Intelligence Industry California’s artificial intelligence industry includes security leaders working across frontier model development, enterprise AI platforms, data infrastructure, observability, and AI-native software products. The executives in this feature bring experience from high-growth startups, major technology companies, cloud-native environments, offensive security, incident response, compliance, and product security. Their backgrounds reflect how AI security leadership now spans not only traditional cybersecurity functions, but also the technical and operational demands of securing data pipelines, model-driven platforms, cloud environments, and fast-scaling AI businesses. Alex Levinson — Head of Security, Scale AI Alex Levinson is head of security at Scale AI, where he oversees all aspects of security for the company. His background combines technical depth across security, software, and infrastructure, along with experience in incident response, forensics, infrastructure security, DevOps, automation, offensive security, red teaming, and large-scale engineering. Before joining Scale AI in 2020, he spent nearly five years at Uber, where he was the founding engineer of the Security Response Team and later held leadership responsibilities spanning incident response, investigations, detection, detection platforms, red team, cloud security, and enterprise security. Earlier roles at Lares, Bluebox Security, Zynga, and Katana Forensics reflect a career that includes consultancy, tool development, infrastructure security, application security, and security engineering in complex technical environments. Remi Cattiau — Chief Information Security Officer, Arize AI Remi Cattiau is chief information security officer at Arize AI, where he leads security across compliance, application security, contract negotiation, cloud security, risk management, and third-party assessments. His current remit includes programs tied to PCI, HiTrust, and SOC 2, as well as penetration testing, bug bounty initiatives, and cloud security controls. Before joining Arize AI in 2021, he was chief information security officer at Nuxeo, where he achieved PCI DSS, HiTrust, and SOC 2 compliance and scaled