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Gary Steele
CEO of Shield AI (since May 2025); previously CEO of Splunk (through its $28B Cisco acquisition) and founding CEO of Proofpoint.
American · 1 current role
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American defense-autonomy company (San Diego, founded 2015 by Brandon Tseng, Ryan Tseng, and Andrew Reiter) building the Hivemind AI pilot and the V-BAT VTOL dr
Series G · $2B6 verified deployments · Hivemind at U.S. Air Force CCA Program, USA →1 incident2 models
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- Shield AI CEOSecondary-verified
Board seats (1)
- Shield AI director
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