Who are Abnormal Security's decision-makers?

Evan Reiser is CEO and co-founder. Before Abnormal, he co-founded Bloomspot (sold to JPMorgan Chase) and AdStack (acquired by TellApart, which was itself acquired by Twitter for $500M+). At Twitter he led product management and ML teams for the advertising business. His pattern is combining ML with revenue intelligence — first in ad tech, now in email security. Reiser has been the primary public face of Abnormal's growth narrative and has discussed IPO ambitions publicly following the Series D.

Sanjay Jeyakumar co-founded Abnormal and serves as CTO and Head of R&D. He was the founding engineer and systems architect at TellApart and later built Twitter's distributed data processing and ML infrastructure. He holds a BS in EECS from UC Berkeley and an MS in CS from Stanford. Unlike some co-founder/CTO transitions at high-growth companies, Jeyakumar has remained actively in the CTO seat and continues to author engineering blog posts and lead the company's R&D direction.

The broader C-suite reflects the company's maturation toward public-company readiness: Lisa Banks as CFO (ex-ServiceNow SVP Finance, hired January 2025 explicitly for IPO preparation), Kevin Moore as CRO driving global enterprise revenue, Mike Britton as CIO bringing practitioner credibility (he runs Abnormal on Abnormal internally), Jeff True as CLO (appointed March 2024), and Lisa Wallace as Chief People Officer managing a team that has grown from 0 to 1,400+ in seven years.

For technology vendor purchases, the primary buying committee at Abnormal AI sits at the SVP/VP level, with economic authority typically held by CTO Sanjay Jeyakumar for engineering infrastructure, CIO Mike Britton for security tooling, and CRO Kevin Moore for revenue-facing platforms like CRM and sales engagement. CFO Lisa Banks signs off on contracts above a threshold (likely $100K+) given the company's IPO preparation and heightened financial controls.

For net-new categories (developer tooling, cloud cost optimization, HR platforms, finance tech), the Chief People Officer and Engineering leadership are the right entry points. Abnormal's procurement process has become more structured as the company passes $200M ARR and prepares for public-company compliance — first calls with operational owners and a formal security and legal review are standard before any deal closes. The CLO and legal team (Jeff True) are increasingly involved in vendor contracts as Sarbanes-Oxley readiness intensifies.

Deals aligned to Abnormal's active build-out areas — EMEA international expansion, AI platform R&D, FedRAMP compliance and federal go-to-market, and public-company financial infrastructure — will find faster internal champions and shorter approval cycles. Pitches to the Bengaluru R&D center for engineering tooling and the London EMEA hub for regional GTM support are particularly well-timed given the company's active international investment.

Abnormal is organized around functional C-suite leaders reporting to the CEO, with SVPs running global enterprise sales, engineering, and customer success. R&D is split between the San Francisco headquarters and the Bengaluru engineering center, which handles a significant share of product and platform engineering.

As the company prepares for a potential IPO, it has systematically added public-company infrastructure: the March 2024 appointments of CFO Smita Sanadhya (since replaced by Lisa Banks in January 2025) and CLO Jeff True were the first wave; the January 2025 Banks appointment represents the second wave, explicitly targeting $1B+ ARR scaling and public listing readiness. The Chief People Officer (Lisa Wallace), Chief Information Officer (Mike Britton), and Chief Marketing Officer roles round out the functional leadership bench.

For sellers, this means procurement, legal review, and security assessments are now baked into the buying process at Abnormal — no longer the informal startup purchasing of its early years. Earlier-stage engagement with operational owners (VP or SVP level) before legal and procurement are looped in is the most efficient path to a fast deal cycle.