Former Charles Schwab Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer Brings Enterprise Security Leadership to AI-Native MDR Pioneer
Sarasota, FL — March 31, 2026 — TENEX.AI, the AI-native, human-led AI-SOC company, today announced the appointment of Bashar Abouseido as President. Abouseido brings more than two decades of enterprise cybersecurity leadership to the role, most recently serving as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Charles Schwab, one of the world’s largest financial services firms.
In his role at Schwab, Abouseido was responsible for comprehensive cybersecurity strategy and first-line technology risk management across all Schwab companies, leading a team of hundreds of security professionals. He played a central role in securing the firm’s integration of TD Ameritrade, one of the most complex and high-stakes security consolidations in financial services history. Prior to Schwab, he held security leadership positions at Thomson Reuters and Rockwell Automation.
“Bashar’s appointment is a direct statement about where TENEX is going,” said Eric Foster, CEO of Tenex.AI. “He has operated at the highest levels of enterprise security, in one of the most regulated and scrutinized industries in the world. He knows what organizations need before they can articulate it themselves and he chose Tenex because this is where the work actually matters. That says everything.”
Abouseido will serve as President of TENEX, shaping the company’s strategic direction as it expands its presence across North America and internationally. His background in enterprise risk, regulatory environments, zero trust architecture and board-level cybersecurity investment makes him uniquely positioned to lead TENEX’s growth into the largest and most complex enterprise accounts.
“I’ve spent my career protecting some of the most complex organizations in the world and every CISO I’ve known has had to fight the same battle, explaining risk to the board, justifying resources, and watching their best people burn out triaging noise instead of stopping real threats. The adversaries aren’t slowing down; they’re scaling and automating and they never stop. The only answer is a platform built to match that and Tenex is the first place I’ve seen AI that genuinely thinks like an elite analyst paired with humans who make it sharper every day. When you can show 98% fewer false positives and a response time under a minute, security stops being a line item to defend and becomes a capability to brag about. That’s not a feature. That’s the future and that’s why I’m here.”
TENEX.ai’s AI SOC handles 100% of incoming alerts, triages 85% automatically, reduces false positives by 98%, and delivers a mean time to respond of under one minute. The company has offices in San Jose, Kansas City, and Sarasota, Florida, with expansion underway into EMEA, Phoenix, and the Northeast.
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TENEX.AI: The AI SOC Company. The only AI-native Managed Detection and Response (MDR) provider built from the ground up around AI, led by operators who’ve built and scaled MDR before, with founding engineers from the hyperscalers and leading AI labs. Recently named the #1 fastest-growing cybersecurity company in the country by IT-Harvest’s 2026 Cyber 150, TENEX serves enterprise customers across Google and Microsoft security ecosystems. TENEX’s platform triages, investigates, hunts, and responds to threats autonomously, with elite human analysts always in the loop – combining the speed and scalability of AI with the accountability of human-led security operations. Backed by Crosspoint Capital Partners, Shield Capital, DTCP, Deepwork Capital, and the Florida Opportunity Fund, with its seed round led in 2025 by Andreessen Horowitz (a16z), TENEX is headquartered in Sarasota, FL with offices in Overland Park, San Jose, and Phoenix. Learn more at TENEX.AI.