Bedrock Data has expanded its executive team with three new vice presidents as the company looks to scale go-to-market execution amid rising enterprise demand for data security and AI governance. The Menlo Park-based company appointed Jon Engler as vice president of sales, Bryan Liberator as vice president of finance and operations, and John Coyle as vice president of business development.
The hires follow Bedrock Data’s recently announced $25 million Series A funding round led by Greylock Partners and are intended to strengthen the company’s ability to serve large enterprises that are simultaneously securing sensitive data and accelerating AI adoption. Bedrock Data positions its product as a modern platform for data security posture management, focused on data-centric security, governance, and management across private cloud, infrastructure, platform, software-as-a-service, and AI environments.
Bedrock Data CEO and co-founder Bruno Kurtic said the appointments are aimed at executing the company’s next growth phase, underscoring the need to meet the growing enterprise demand for data security and responsible AI. The company said Engler will focus on scaling its enterprise sales organization and aligning customer feedback with product priorities, Liberator will lead operational rigor as the company grows, and Coyle will expand strategic partnerships across software vendors, channels, and systems integrators.
Engler joins Bedrock Data with enterprise sales leadership experience at AppDynamics and Cisco and most recently served at Augment Code, where Bedrock Data said he helped build the go-to-market function and drive significant early revenue growth. He also spent three years at Sutter Hill Ventures advising founders on go-to-market strategy and scaling.
Liberator brings a background spanning finance, operations, and strategic initiatives at high-growth technology organizations. He most recently served as chief of staff and vice president of business operations and strategic initiatives at Sumo Logic, where he led cross-functional initiatives and played a central role in the company’s 2020 IPO. His prior roles include work at PagerDuty and Duo Security on IPO-readiness and liquidity event preparation, as well as earlier experience at Ernst & Young and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
Coyle joins with more than two decades of experience across security, DevOps, and enterprise software. Bedrock Data said he will lead channel and strategic partnerships to extend market reach. Most recently, he was an SVP at Sumo Logic, where he helped grow strategic partnerships and led multiple acquisitions. His prior experience includes sales leadership at Sauce Labs and roles spanning Symantec, Opera Software, and financial experience in investment banking and equity research.
The company said the leadership expansion comes shortly after the launch of ArgusAI, a product designed to extend governance to AI systems. Bedrock Data said ArgusAI uses Data Bills of Materials and guardrail gap analysis to help enterprises understand what data AI models and agents access during training and inference.
Bedrock Data says its platform discovers, classifies, and contextualizes data in place without moving it outside customer boundaries. It is powered by a patented Metadata Lake and Serverless Outpost architecture, and the company said its API-first design supports natural-language policy enforcement, AI governance, and automated remediation at enterprise scale.
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“The market signals are clear. We’ve built a platform that solves a real problem and our customers are proving it works. The next phase requires rigorous execution to meet accelerating enterprise demand for data security and responsible AI. Jon brings extensive experience building and scaling early enterprise sales organizations, and partnering closely with product teams. Bryan has helped multiple companies navigate growth inflection points while maintaining operational discipline. John has built and scaled strategic partnerships across ISVs, channels, and systems integrators, expanding enterprise reach and accelerating go-to-market execution. Together, they strengthen our ability to execute at scale and help enterprises secure and govern sensitive data as AI adoption accelerates, making data-centric security a foundational part of modern security architectures.”
Bruno Kurtic, CEO and co-founder of Bedrock Data
“I’ve watched how fast AI is moving in enterprises and seen the same problem everywhere: companies are enthusiastic and want to use AI but they’re anxious about what happens to their data. When I looked at what the team at Bedrock Data built, I knew it was the right solution to solve this problem. Most discovery tools tell teams what data exists. The Bedrock Data platform tells them what AI systems can actually see and lets them control it.”
Jon Engler
“I saw the data explosion firsthand at Sumo Logic, which helped enterprises secure their digital applications and environments. When AI adoption accelerated, it increased data volumes and created new complexity around securing those estates. Data is the crown jewel of every company. Bedrock Data’s approach to making it visible and governable at scale is exactly what the market needs.”
Bryan Liberator
“Data-centric security and AI governance are at a turning point. What sets Bedrock Data apart is the belief that data has to be at the center of every security decision. Within two years, I want Bedrock Data to be the company security and AI leaders think of when they think about AI governance and data-centric security.”
John Coyle
