Team & Advisors

Built by One Engineer. Here Is the Record.

One engineer designed and built every service, agent, and enforcement path in the platform. Here is that engineer, the team around him, and the record, unpadded. Where the structure has a limitation, we name it.

Founder
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Patrick M. Kelly Jr.

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Founder, Chairman & CEO

AI Security Architect · Author · Entrepreneur

20+ yearstechnology & entrepreneurship15+ yearsenterprise security leadership30+ languagessecure code, review & remediation30+ organizationsFortune 500s & federal agencies

Patrick founded CyberArmor.AI and chairs its board, holding the CEO, CTO, and CISO roles. He has secured regulated enterprises from both sides of the table: principal security architecture inside global banks, insurers, and airlines, and solutions architecture at the application-security vendors Contrast Security, Veracode, and ZeroNorth (now Harness.io). He is a named inventor on a U.S. patent.

He built the platform himself, end to end, on a single conviction: policy must become enforcement, and evidence without control is weak.

Trust is the infrastructure of the AI age. My mission is to help people and enterprises govern, protect, and prove trust in every AI-enabled system they build or buy.

M.S. in Data Science, AI concentration, in progress at Northwestern University.

The record, unpadded

Enterprise customer side · principal & senior security architecture

Bank of AmericaUnited AirlinesFannie MaeBerkshire HathawayChubb

Vendor side · solutions architecture at application-security vendors

Contrast SecurityVeracodeZeroNorth (now Harness.io)

Recognition

30 Best Leaders to Watch 2024 · The Silicon ReviewTop 100 Innovator & Entrepreneur · Top 100 Magazine, 2023 & 2024Top 10 CISOs of 2021 · Industry Era Magazine

Also on the record

Named inventor on a U.S. patentAuthor, AI Secure Future: A Vision for Safe AI (2024)CTO and CISO at multiple technology companies
Leadership & Board
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Alan Pan

Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer

Alan Pan is CyberArmor.AI's co-founder and Chief Operating Officer. He is a technologist, operator, and entrepreneur with more than 25 years across engineering, product safety, global compliance, business development, and venture building — 18 of them in product safety and governance.

His enterprise career spans Fortune 500 engineering organisations including Motorola and Stryker. He spent 17 years at Motorola Mobility as a Product Safety Subject Matter Expert and Principal Staff Engineer, guiding safer-product design, approval, and timely market release. There he built and managed approximately 20 product-safety SOPs, trained architecture, hardware, and software development teams, and performed hazard analysis, fault-tree assessment, and mitigation for pre-ship and post-ship risk. As Director of Battery Products at Eastek International he led engineering, certifications, sourcing, sales, program management, and logistics across China, Malaysia, Mexico, and U.S. customer programs.

His work translates standards — IEC, EN, IEEE, UL, UN 38.3 — into auditable controls, evidence, and release decisions. Alongside CyberArmor.AI he founds and operates Leading AI Solutions, an AI governance and compliance advisory, and Leading Lines USA, which handles cross-border commercialization and sourcing. He holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and is natively bilingual in English and Mandarin Chinese.

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Ru Pan

Head of Engineering

More than 25 years of systems engineering, including over two decades at Intel Corporation. Her work spans AI accelerators, from neural-network-processor and Gaudi AI accelerator platforms to Xeon HPC systems, alongside security and manageability platform firmware, high-performance computing, and large-scale platform validation.

At Intel she led platform feature validation, built CI/CD and test frameworks, and mentored engineering teams across data-center-scale hardware. M.S. in Computer Science, Illinois Institute of Technology; B.S. in Electrical & Electronics Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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Bryan Liu, Ph.D.

Executive Board Member

Bryan Liu, Ph.D., serves on CyberArmor.AI's executive board. He has spent more than a decade investing in early-stage businesses alongside globally renowned venture capital firms, following more than thirty years of operating experience in the global automotive industry across design and manufacturing engineering, program management, product launch, and business development.

Business Development
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Jeff Wilhite

Business Development Executive

Jeff Wilhite is a technology and product leader who translates emerging technologies and market needs into products and revenue. His work spans product strategy, product-market fit, business case development, user experience, intellectual property, and commercialization, built on an engineering foundation. He holds an MSEE and an MBA.

Across his career he has combined that engineering background with business and product leadership to identify market opportunities and guide innovative technologies from concept to market. He is also the founder of a technology company applying small language models and agentic AI to help businesses improve efficiency, automate processes, and build new capabilities.

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Mohammad Akhtar

Business Development Executive

Mohammad Akhtar is a multidisciplinary entrepreneur, investor, and business executive with extensive experience developing, operating, and growing ventures across multiple industries. Raised in an entrepreneurial family, his background spans real estate, construction, hospitality, lending, consulting, distribution, transportation, freight brokerage, marketing, and business development.

He has built a portfolio of strategic partnerships across both traditional and emerging industries, and is currently active in ventures spanning artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, technology, logistics, and digital marketing — among them CyberArmor, DealSig, and RevOS360.

Mohammad brings an entrepreneur's vision, an operator's discipline, and an investor's perspective to every venture. His strength lies in identifying opportunities, building strategic alliances, connecting people and resources, and positioning businesses for sustainable growth.

Technical Advisors
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Tim Prokuski

Technical Advisor

Advises onProduct management and enterprise-software delivery in financial services and regulated healthcare.

Three decades in the design, architecture, and development of enterprise software, including architect roles at UBS in financial services and at Cardinal Health, and Principal Consultant at Oracle. He currently serves as a Product Manager at Health Care Service Corporation.

He recently completed MIT's Applied Data Science Program (Leveraging AI for Effective Decision-Making), and holds an M.S. in Computer Science from DePaul University and a B.A. from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

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Wenzheng Jia

Technical Advisor

Advises onArchitecture of large-scale, full-life-cycle systems in regulated healthcare.

More than two decades building large-scale enterprise systems in regulated healthcare. He has served as a Software Architect at Allscripts, a leader in healthcare information technology, since 2010, following senior engineering roles there and at Health Care Service Corporation.

He holds an M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Chicago and a B.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

The Company, Factually

The Answers Third-Party Risk Asks For.

Fields we cannot state as fact are left out rather than guessed at.

Legal entity

CyberArmor.AI is the public brand for CyberArmor AI, Inc., a Delaware corporation. Registered agent address: 16192 Coastal Highway, Lewes, DE 19958. The entity is verifiable in Delaware's public records.

Structure

Founder-led and founder-built. The platform was built end to end by its founding engineer, so one person holds the full mental model of every service, agent, and enforcement path in it.

The team

Eight people: a founder and chairman, a co-founder and COO, a head of engineering, one executive board member, two business development executives, and two technical advisors. This page is the complete list.

Control independence

The founder chairs the board and holds the CEO, CTO, and CISO roles. At this size the person who builds the platform also owns its security posture, and that is a control-independence limitation rather than a strength. We state it instead of dressing it up.

What compensates for it

A public capability status page updated when the code changes rather than when marketing wants; a self-hosted deployment path; and a 15-minute local proof-of-concept that runs from a public repo on your own laptop, so your reviewers verify behavior directly instead of taking our attestation for it.

Data handling

In the hosted stack a single hosting subprocessor holds all platform data; no other subprocessor touches it. Self-hosted deployments run the same stack entirely inside your own infrastructure. Full subprocessor list on request at security@cyberarmor.ai.

Key-person continuity

The entire platform runs as standard containers from a versioned deployment definition, with no bespoke runtime and no undocumented infrastructure. Documented runbooks cover operational and secrets-path triage procedures. The self-hosted path means you can run the full stack independent of CyberArmor's hosted operation, and source-code escrow can be arranged as part of pilot or production contracting.

Capability claims are separate from people claims. Every capability is labeled production-deployed, pilot-ready, configurable, or roadmap on the public status page, which is updated when the code changes.

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