ThoughtSpot Appoints Anthony Lee-Masis as Chief Information Security Officer to Help Customers Confidently and Securely Adopt AI-Powered Analytics

Lee-Masis joins as more companies embrace secure, reliable GenAI solutions at scale, for even their most critical analytics workloads 

Mountain View, California - May 9, 2024 - ThoughtSpot, the AI-Powered Analytics company, announced the appointment of Anthony Lee-Masis as its Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). With more than 20 years of experience in cybersecurity and technical operations in the SaaS industry, Lee-Masis will guide ThoughtSpot’s global security practices, a testament to ThoughtSpot’s commitment to enhance and protect its customers’ data privacy and security. As companies move away from legacy business intelligence and adopt GenAI-powered tools to fundamentally change the way they leverage data and spark their Data Renaissance, safety, security, and robust governance will remain essential to this effort.  

As ThoughtSpot’s CISO, Lee-Masis will lead cybersecurity initiatives to protect critical information and infrastructure. He will be responsible for developing and implementing ThoughtSpot’s comprehensive security strategies, ensuring the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of company and client data across global operations. Prior to joining ThoughtSpot, Lee-Masis served as the CISO & Data Protection Officer at Xactly Corp, where he spearheaded major security initiatives that supported the company’s successful IPO in 2015.

“We’re living in a world that’s defined by data, and as a consequence, every organization needs to be a cybersecurity company. Anthony’s experience and strategic vision will be invaluable to our comprehensive security initiatives to bolster the resilience of digital infrastructure, reinforce customer trust, and, most importantly, protect critical information,” said Mohit Daswani, Chief Financial Officer, ThoughtSpot. “As businesses continue to reimagine their operations in the Data Renaissance with generative AI, Anthony’s leadership will be paramount to ensure their investments and workloads are built on top of safe, secure, reliable data foundations.”

“It’s a privilege to join a market leader like ThoughtSpot that consistently sits at the cutting-edge of data analytics and AI,” said Anthony Lee-Masis, Chief Information Security Officer, ThoughtSpot. “As more companies begin to migrate to GenAI-powered analytics tools, they need assurance that their most valuable asset will remain secure, protected, and private. ThoughtSpot has embraced this ethos since inception, and I’m excited to contribute to this proactive culture of security awareness and empower our customers to adopt our innovative solutions with confidence.”

Lee-Masis has joined ThoughtSpot in the wake of strong growth for the company, including: 

• The success of ThoughtSpot Embedded, the company’s embedded analytics solution introduced in late 2021, which emerged as an industry leader for product and app developers looking to infuse AI into their analytics. 
• The launch of and expansion of ThoughtSpot Sage, an AI-powered search experience that lets every user, regardless of technical skills, leverage foundational language models within ThoughtSpot’s patented search technology to get insights from their data through natural language search. 
• The appointment of Ahmed Quadri as Chief Customer Officer

About ThoughtSpot

ThoughtSpot is the AI-Powered Analytics company. Our mission is to create a more fact-driven world with the easiest to use analytics platform. With ThoughtSpot, anyone can leverage natural language search powered by large language models to ask and answer data questions with confidence. ThoughtSpot enables everyone within an organization to limitlessly engage with live data in any popular cloud data platform, making it easy to create and interact with granular, hyper-personalized, and actionable insights. Customers can take advantage of both ThoughtSpot’s web and mobile applications to improve decision-making for every employee, wherever and whenever decisions are made. With ThoughtSpot’s low-code developer-friendly platform, ThoughtSpot Embedded, customers can also embed AI-Powered Analytics to their products and services, monetizing their data and engaging users to keep them coming back for more. Organizations like T-Mobile, BT, Daimler, Medtronic, Royal Bank of Canada, Nasdaq, OpenTable, Capital One, Huel, and Comcast rely on ThoughtSpot to transform how their employees and customers take advantage of data. Try ThoughtSpot today and see for yourself.