Protopia AI is at RSAC. Meet our team of experts in AI Data Privacy and Security.

Meet the Team

Protopia Leadership

Eiman
Ebrahimi

CEO & Co‑Founder

Eiman Ebrahimi, PhD, is the CEO and co‑founder of Protopia Al. With a passion for enabling Al’s impact across industry verticals, he previously served as a Research Scientist at NVIDIA for 9 years, leading research to solve key challenges in accessing massive datasets for ML/Al and optimizing large scale GPU systems for training LLMs.

Jennifer
Cwagenberg

VP Engineering

Jennifer heads the engineering team at Protopia. Her previous roles include managing security at Toyota’s Product Cybersecurity Group, overseeing Cloud workloads at N‑able, and handling data responsibilities at Match.com.

Lt. Gen Scott
McKean (Ret.)

SVP Federal & DoW

Lt. General (Ret.) Scott McKean last served as deputy commanding general for Army Futures Command and has been a Senior DoD Advisor to Protopia since September 2024. We are thrilled to welcome him onboard to lead our Federal and DOW efforts full time.

Balaji
Chandrasekaran

VP GTM & Customer Enablement

Balaji leads GTM and Customer Enablement at Protopia. He was previously the Product Lead for AI Solutions at Infor where he launched and managed the Augmented Intelligence product portfolio as a trusted partner for enterprise customers.

Brittany
Carambio

VP Marketing

Brittany leads marketing at Protopia AI. She brings deep experience marketing advanced AI infrastructure to enterprise and government buyers. Previously, she held leadership roles spanning brand, product marketing, and strategic communications at OctoAI (acquired by NVIDIA), Egnyte, Aira, and In-Q-Tel (IQT).

Mark
Piening

SVP Biz Dev & Growth

Mark leads Business Development and Growth at Protopia. Specializing in growth and transformation for both entrepreneurial and Fortune 500 companies, he has a decade of expertise in buy and sell‑side M&A and has worked at NodeSource, Alegion, Symatec, Dell and EY.

Investors

Advisors

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Kevin Senator

CEO, Constella Intelligence

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James Beecham

Founder & CEO, ALTR

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Richard Hegberg

CEO, Aspinity

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Sol Rashidi

CDAO Fortune 100s

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Scott Prevost

Former VP Engineering, Adobe