Adam New-Waterson

Your next Head of AI Enablement. Cross-functional operator helping companies modernize how they think, build, and grow using AI; without losing their humanity.

I help organizations build AI fluency across teams. Translating emerging capabilities into shipped products, smarter processes, and measurable outcomes. Think of me as part strategist, part hacker, part coach.

I’ve built and launched a Machine Learning analytics platform (Teraace) by using AI, advised multiple AI startups on everything from model selection to GTM, and led cross-functional teams as CPO, CMO, and demand-gen exec. Along the way, I’ve scaled teams, driven 9-figure pipelines, and aligned product, data, and GTM to deliver what matters.

I don’t just talk AI—I operationalize it:

📍 Built software products from zero (Teraace)
📍 Advised AI-first startups (Prompta, Judo, Nightstand, others)
📍 Shipped systems integrating agents, LLMs, and data pipelines
📍 Hands-on: prompt engineering, CI/CD, agent architecture, data modeling

AI will reshape how every company operates. I’m here to make sure that transition happens with clarity, velocity, and trust.

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Kayla Cytron-Thaler

Security | Compliance | Risk

👋Hi I'm Kayla

Outside of work I’m passionate about:
🎧Listening to music & podcasts on Spotify 
🤓Attempting crossword puzzles (and sometimes completing them)
🏒 Watching the Colorado Avalanche (my husband is obsessed with them and now I am also)
😻Spending time with my 3 rescue cats Pip, Otis & Wilson (they can do tricks like sit, balance, and loaf)
🏋🏻‍♂️Staying active (road biking & Zwift, walking, Olympic lifting and Crossfit)
✈️Traveling around the world (Costa Rica, Germany, India, Japan, Kenya, Turks & Caicos, and more...)

My mottos are:
🎤”Rise above the noise”
💥"Be comfortable in the uncomfortable"
✅”Do the right thing even when it’s the harder decision to make”

At Drata we help teams manage their trust management programs through efficiency around: 
🔥Frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 20071, NIST, HIPAA, PCI, etc... 
🔥Third party risk management & risk registers
🔥Security questionnaires & self-service trust centers 

I manage Tech and VC/PE Partnerships at Drata, so if you have any questions about either of these programs, please send me a DM.

Partnerships

💙 Fivetran saves 50% of the time during their audit process 
💙 Lucidworks automates +40% of compliance work by migrating to Drata from another platform 
💙 Immediation saved +$100K/yr by not having to bring on additional resources to manage the ISO 27001 journey
💙This could be you

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