Sam Newnam is Chief Marketing Officer at Secuvy AI, where he helps enterprises discover, classify, and govern their data to safely power modern AI pipelines. Focused on protecting corporate IP—including dark data enterprises didn't know they had—Sam works to ensure data is secure and compliant before it ever reaches an AI model or agent.

Sam’s career spans the intersection of AI infrastructure and data, including founding multiple data and analytics startups and holding senior leadership roles at Nutanix, WEKA, and Hammerspace. As VP of AI Solutions at Hammerspace, he launched the company’s AI Data Platform and led strategic integrations with NVIDIA, Cisco, Supermicro, and Hitachi Vantara for GPU-intensive workloads. Having solved critical data gravity and fragmentation challenges to get unstructured data moving into agentic AI systems, Sam now leads marketing and growth at Secuvy to address the next frontier: full-visibility data governance, classification, and IP protection for enterprise AI.