Manoj Kumar, CISSP, CCISO, is an AI and ML security executive with 24+ years in cybersecurity, including more than a decade securing AI and machine learning at Microsoft—where he rose from software engineer to Head of Product Security for the 43,000-person Experiences & Devices division, safeguarding code across 23,000 services. He contributed to Microsoft's Responsible AI Standard and LLM security controls and led the AETHER Static Analysis Working Group defining CodeQL rules for high-risk AI systems. As an external researcher, he has responsibly disclosed 22 vulnerabilities in frontier large language models, including Claude, Gemini, OpenAI, and Perplexity. He created a free, hands-on, six-week AI Agent Security Bootcamp, have spoken at multiple conferences and holds an executive MBA (NYU Stern / LSE / HEC Paris), an MS in Cybersecurity, CISSP, and CCISO.