Summary
Darren Thomas is a seasoned product leader and co-founder with 12+ years building large-scale security and AI platforms, currently shaping people-centric AI at Wethos and incubating ventures at NumberOne AI. He led McAfee’s Platform Services—Global Threat Intelligence Cloud, Open Data Exchange Layer and agent technologies—handling systems that serve billions of queries daily and driving open-source interoperability across vendors. As Co-Chair of the Open Cybersecurity Alliance he has translated open standards (STIX, TAXII, OpenC2) into production tooling that enables cross-vendor threat sharing and orchestrated response. His background spans hands-on technical pre-sales, global product leadership and enterprise security operations, giving him rare fluency across customers, engineering and standards bodies. Based in Los Angeles, Darren combines enterprise sales savvy with startup grit, regularly speaking and evangelizing at industry forums. Less obvious: he couples platform-scale product strategy with a passion for translating cultural/team dynamics into measurable performance through his current AI-driven people analytics work.
13 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
2:1, BSc (Hons) Business Systems Modelling, 2:1, BSc (Hons) Business Systems Modelling at University of Greenwich