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Abnormal AI

CybersecurityFounded 2018
Reviewed by Swet Parvadiya
Company data updated: September 2026

Leadership History

Abnormal AI: CEO History

1 leader · 2018 to present

Who is the CEO of Abnormal AI?

Evan Reiser is the CEO of Abnormal AI, in the role since 2018.

Current CEO
Evan Reiser (since 2018)
Leaders documented
1
Founded
2018
NameRoleFromToYears in role
Evan ReiserCo-founder and Chief Executive Officer2018Present8

Company Overview

Abnormal AI protects companies against attacks that target people rather than systems: phishing, fake invoices, executive impersonation and stolen accounts. Instead of filtering mail at the gateway, it plugs into Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace by API and learns how each person normally communicates and signs in. It reports more than 4,500 customers, including 30% of the Fortune 500 as of September 2026. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Abnormal sells annual software subscriptions to organizations, most of them large enterprises. Its core product, Inbound Email Security, connects to Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace through APIs, builds a baseline of each user's normal behavior, and removes messages that deviate from it. Once installed, Abnormal sells additional products on the same platform: account takeover detection, AI Phishing Coach security training, AI Data Analyst reporting, Email DLP rules, Identity Threat Protection, AI Governance and AI Cloud Security. The company says three-fourths of its customers had moved away from a third-party secure email gateway by April 2025, which puts Abnormal in competition for the budget that used to go to gateway vendors. Resellers also carry the product; SoftBank Corp. began offering it to enterprise customers in Japan in September 2026.

Evan Reiser

Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer

2018 – Present

8 years (current)

Key Decisions & Impact

Reiser aggressively positioned Abnormal Security specifically as a purely API-based solution, completely bypassing the massive friction of traditional Secure Email Gateway (SEG) deployments.

Legacy

As CEO, he successfully raised massive venture capital rounds, achieving a $3 billion valuation by proving that traditional rules-based email security was entirely incapable of stopping AI-generated phishing.

Challenges & Strategic Context

Abnormal competes with Microsoft, whose Defender for Office 365 is built into Microsoft 365 licenses, and with established email security vendors that have added API-based products of their own. It relies on Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace APIs for access to customer mail. Reuters reported in August 2023 that the company was not yet profitable. In July 2026 Anthropic sued Abnormal over the logo adopted in its 2025 rebrand.

Abnormal AI CEO and Leadership FAQ

Who is the CEO of Abnormal AI?

Evan Reiser, a co-founder, has been CEO since the company was founded in 2018.

What was Evan Reiser's background before Abnormal?

He led product and machine learning teams for Twitter's ad business, co-founded Bloomspot and AdStack, and holds a B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Who else has held senior leadership roles at Abnormal?

Co-founder Sanjay Jeyakumar was CTO at launch, and former Forescout CEO Michael DeCesare joined as president in August 2023, according to Reuters.

What major decisions has Reiser made as CEO?

Reiser led four funding rounds up to a $5.1 billion valuation, renamed the company Abnormal AI in 2025, pursued FedRAMP authorization and signed partnerships with OpenAI and SoftBank in 2026.

Who is the CEO of Abnormal Security?

Evan Reiser is the co-founder and CEO, bringing extensive experience in applied machine learning from his previous roles in ad-tech and Twitter.

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