Career profile
Kathy Wang
Chief Information Security Officer, micro1
- Current role, per sources checked 7 September 2026
- March 2026
Kathy Wang is the Chief Information Security Officer of micro1, appointed in March 2026.
Career path
Wang's career has spanned government, commercial and technology startup environments, and she is described as a recognized thought leader in information security with a background in research and security leadership. She served as CISO at Very Good Security, a security services and products company, a role documented in a May 2021 interview tied to RSA Conference coverage. She went on to hold cybersecurity leadership roles at Discord and GitLab. Immediately before joining micro1, Wang was CISO at hospitality software developer Otelier. micro1 is described as a frontier AI model training company and a data lab focused on producing high-quality data to power frontier AI model training and agent performance, and Wang joined it as CISO in March 2026.
Investing and advisory work
Wang is an investor at Silicon Valley CISO Investments and works closely with companies including Panther and SafeBase. She has also been described as an investor at Firebolt Ventures and a former startup founder. Her RSA Conference biography states she has built strategic security roadmaps as CISO at multiple pre-IPO and post-IPO companies across B2B, fintech and B2C sectors, drawing on more than twenty years of security industry experience. She has also advised security services and products startup companies.
Research and public talks
Wang is co-author of the book Beautiful Security and is described as an internationally recognized malware expert who has researched, developed, evaluated and operationalized methods for detecting and preventing client-side attacks used by advanced persistent threats, including in highly targeted environments. In 2021 she joined a colleague from Very Good Security for an RSA Conference panel titled Will Crypto Displace the Dollar?, discussing cryptocurrency's potential to challenge the US dollar as the world's reserve currency. She has also appeared on The Cyber Ranch Podcast, in an episode focused on investing in cybersecurity startups.
