Nitin Agale stands at the helm of AiStrike as a visionary cybersecurity leader with over two decades of experience in securing enterprise environments and driving operational excellence. His career is defined by a deep understanding of the challenges facing modern security operations and a commitment to leveraging AI to transform how organizations defend against evolving threats.

Before founding AiStrike, Nitin was part of the initial leadership team at Securonix, where he served as Chief Strategy and Marketing Officer and SVP of GTM and Marketing. During his tenure, he played a pivotal role in establishing Securonix as a leader in SIEM and security analytics, shaping product strategy and market positioning while building trusted partnerships with customers and analysts. Earlier, he led presales and customer success, scaling the company from early stage to over $25M in revenue.

At AiStrike, Nitin approaches cybersecurity not just as a technical challenge but as a business imperative, aligning security outcomes with operational efficiency and resilience. His leadership combines strategic vision with technical depth, enabling AiStrike to deliver purpose-built, agentic AI that helps organizations reduce noise, accelerate response, and modernize their security operations.


Under Nitin’s guidance, AiStrike is not just building security tools; it is shaping the future of autonomous, intelligent security operations for a complex digital world.

Kayzad Vanskuiwalla serves as Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at AiStrike, bringing over a decade of hands-on expertise in security operations, threat detection, and advanced threat hunting to drive intelligent automation in cybersecurity. His career is defined by a commitment to applying AI where it amplifies human intuition, transforming how organizations move from reactive alert triage to proactive threat response.

Before founding AiStrike, Kayzad led global threat detection, hunting, and intelligence at Securonix, where he scaled the detection engineering and threat content programs from the ground up. He built and managed high-impact teams across detection engineering, threat intelligence, and customer success, advancing the adoption of frameworks like MITRE ATT&CK to enhance SOC visibility and response effectiveness. His work bridged the gap between threat research and scalable, production-ready capabilities by closely partnering with data science, product, and architecture teams.


Earlier in his career, Kayzad held key roles at iSIGHT Partners (now part of Mandiant/Google) and Deloitte, advising large enterprises on risk, vulnerability intelligence, and emerging threats to strengthen their security posture.


At AiStrike, Kayzad approaches security as a craft that blends statistical modeling, machine learning, and grounded correlation logic to support real-world threat hypotheses. His leadership fuses deep technical insight with a vision for practical, scalable automation, ensuring AiStrike’s solutions empower security teams to stay ahead in an evolving threat landscape.

Harsh Patwardhan serves as Chief Technology Officer at AiStrike, leading the company’s R&D vision, product architecture, and engineering strategy. With over 20 years of experience in building enterprise software and cybersecurity platforms, Harsh specializes in creating scalable, secure, and high-performance cloud-native systems that power mission-critical environments.


Before joining AiStrike, Harsh was a co-founder and engineering leader at Securonix, where he played a pivotal role in developing its SaaS-based SIEM platform and guiding the company through its journey of pioneering technology and sustained innovation. His leadership was instrumental in helping Securonix secure over $1 billion in funding while scaling its technology and teams globally.


A holder of multiple patents in risk scoring and analytics, Harsh is known for fostering a culture of innovation and collaboration, growing high-performing engineering teams, and ensuring product excellence through agile methodologies and data-driven decision-making. His approach blends deep technical expertise with a strategic mindset, ensuring that AiStrike’s engineering vision aligns with customer needs and the demands of modern security operations.


At AiStrike, Harsh is focused on building the next generation of agentic, AI-powered security platforms, ensuring that organizations can operate with confidence in an increasingly complex digital landscape.

Jhilmil Kochar serves as Chief Engineering and Product Leader at AiStrike, bringing over 30 years of experience as a technical and strategic leader across cybersecurity, IoT, healthcare, telecom, networking, and gaming. Her expertise spans embedded systems to SaaS platforms, driving innovation and operational excellence in complex technology environments.


Most recently, Jhilmil was Managing Director at CrowdStrike India, where she spent seven years building some of the company’s core security products while scaling high-performing engineering teams. Previously, she led India development centers at WMS/Scientific Games and Solidcore/McAfee, consistently delivering impactful products and cultivating engineering cultures rooted in innovation and accountability.


Beyond her executive roles, Jhilmil serves as a strategic advisor, mentor, and investor for startups, reflecting her commitment to advancing technology leadership across industries. At AiStrike, she combines deep technical expertise with strategic vision to build agentic, AI-powered security solutions that meet the evolving needs of modern enterprises.

Shailesh Khare is the Vice President of Engineering at AiStrike, bringing over two decades of experience in building high-impact engineering teams and developing cloud-native, AI-driven cybersecurity platforms.


Before joining AiStrike, Shailesh led Cloud Security initiatives at Tenable and Tripwire, driving innovation in scalable SaaS and threat detection systems. He also served as CTO at startups including Sapper.ai and Logtera, where he built products and teams from the ground up, aligning technology execution with business growth and customer value.


Shailesh specializes in bridging technology and business goals, accelerating operational excellence while delivering platforms that scale with customer needs. At AiStrike, he is focused on building advanced, reliable engineering systems that enable organizations to modernize their security operations with confidence in an increasingly complex threat landscape.