Sol Rashidi
Chief Strategy Officer, Cyera

Fusion Expert Network Member

Sol is the world's 1st Chief AI Officer appointed in 2016. With 9 patents, a best-selling author on AI, and a former Amazon & C-Suite Exec (5x), she was named FORBES “AI Maverick & Visionary of the 21st Century” in 2023, and FORBES 'Top 5 People Taking AI To Market' in 2025. Sol has also earned accolades like Top ‘100 AI Thought Leaders’, ‘Top 50 Women in Tech' and LinkedIn’s 2025 AI Influencer. Sol started her AI career in 2011 when she helped IBM launch Watson. Her job is not just to create capabilities & deploy programs, but to help educate and advise  on 1) Workforce preparation & human relevance in the age of AI 2) Data security & AI Governance. What sets Sol apart is she is a practitioner and an operator. She’s built these capabilities from scratch and has over 200+ deployments - so her conversations are deeply rooted in experience. Sol is the inventor of The Human Amplification Index , a platform that measures how well we’re strengthening both the business and the workforce through AI to ensure you have both financial and human capital ROI. She is the bridge across AI capability development, AI security and data governance, and human capital strategy.