Austin, TX, Aug. 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — WSO2 today announced the appointment of Harry Ault as Chief Executive Officer. He will assume day-to-day leadership of WSO2 immediately, working closely with the executive team to advance the company’s strategy and drive continued momentum across its global customer base.

Ault joins WSO2 with more than 20 years of experience in revenue leadership, strategic partnerships, corporate development, and go-to-market strategy across global markets. Prior to taking up this role, he was Chief Revenue Officer at SambaNova Systems, a pioneer in AI inference chip technology, where he led the company’s global sales, marketing, field engineering, and global support organizations. Throughout his career, Ault has built a track record of driving above-market growth, leading successful M&A integrations, and scaling go-to-market strategies across diverse industries.

His appointment follows a year of significant leadership expansion at WSO2, which has added a new Chief Financial Officer and Chief Marketing Officer. These are part of efforts in building a senior team designed to support the company’s next stage of growth as it advances its vision for Trusted AI Governance, bringing API management, integration, identity, engineering, and agent platforms together into the WSO2 Agentic Enterprise Fabric (AEF), so governance extends to both the agents themselves and the foundation they run on, built in natively and not added on.

“We are thrilled to welcome Harry to WSO2 at such a pivotal moment for the company,” said Jonas Persson, Chairman of the Board. “Harry’s proven ability to build winning teams and scale go-to-market strategy globally makes him the right leader to take WSO2 into its next chapter.”

“Over the past two decades, WSO2 has built a remarkable platform and a loyal customer base of more than 700 enterprise organizations, and I’m honored to join at such an exciting inflection point,” said Harry Ault, incoming CEO of WSO2. “As organizations transform into AI-driven, agentic enterprises, they need a trusted open-source partner to navigate the change with speed, control and confidence without adding complexity. I’m looking forward to deepening our engagement in the open-source community, growing our global partner ecosystem, and expanding WSO2’s value to customers and developers everywhere.”

Ault succeeds Founder and former CEO Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, who stepped down from the role in May 2026. Devaka Randeniya, WSO2’s Chief Revenue Officer, has served as Acting CEO during the transition period and will continue to partner closely with Ault as he steps into the role. 

About WSO2

For more than 20 years, WSO2 has provided the open source infrastructure powering technology used by millions around the world. Today, that foundation extends to AI-native tooling, giving enterprises the infrastructure to build, manage, and scale AI agents with sovereign, trusted governance. WSO2 delivers this through its Agentic Enterprise Fabric, a composable stack spanning agent, API, integration, identity, and engineering platforms. They provide agent control and lifecycle management; API and AI gateway capabilities that make data and AI models discoverable, governable, and safe for agents to consume; connectivity across legacy and modern systems; unified identity and access for humans, applications, and agents; as well as self-service platform engineering for developers and agents alike. These industry-recognized platforms help enterprises build with confidence at the speed the agentic enterprise demands. Founded in 2005, WSO2 has offices in Australia, Brazil, Germany, India, Spain, Sri Lanka, the UAE, the UK, and the US. Visit wso2.com to learn more.


Zaithoon Bin Ahamed
WSO2 Head of Corporate Communications
zaithoon@wso2.com

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