Usman
Chaudhary
17 years at the intersection of engineering, strategy, and security. Advising CISOs and boards on AI-era threats — and building AI systems to explore what's possible when deep domain expertise meets hands-on AI mastery.
I'm a Field CISO and AI Security Executive at Google Cloud, advising Fortune 500 enterprises and federal agencies on AI governance, SecOps transformation, and sovereign AI strategy. Previously at Palo Alto Networks as Business Value Director, and Accenture and KPMG as a strategy consultant.
My background spans deep engineering, management consulting, and enterprise security GTM: MS Electrical Engineering, University of Michigan (research in secure vehicular communications) · MBA, University of Chicago Booth (Dean's Honor List) · 9 years at Ericsson architecting hybrid cloud and IoT security infrastructure.
I speak at Billington CyberSecurity, GovExec, and enterprise security forums. I write on AI-era threats and what it means to build genuinely AI-native security programs. In 2026, I started building AI agents — exploring AI applications across every field of life.
