Alex Callihan

Alex Callihan serves as a seasoned technology executive with over 15 years of software engineering and leadership experience, currently driving product innovation and leading the next generation of agentic research and development. He demonstrates a strong background in scaling technical capabilities and maintains a proven record of building and managing high-performing engineering teams. Throughout his career, Callihan has contributed to growth in cybersecurity defense, with a renewed focus on pioneering solutions against advanced threats like prompt injection, shadow AI, and social engineering.

Role & Responsibilities at KnowBe4: Callihan leads the research and development of AI-driven workforce security products as Chief Technology Officer at KnowBe4.

Past experience:

• SVP Engineering at KnowBe4, serving in the engineering organization for nearly a decade and instrumentally scaling the company’s technical capabilities.
• Engineering Strategist at Embarc Collective.
• Site Reliability Engineer at Malwarebytes.
• Senior Cloud Engineer at ConnectWise.

Education:

• Bachelor of Science in Information Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional
• AWS Certified Security - Specialty