Tai Tran

Helping Enterprises Adopt & Secure AI Agents | VP of Product at Certiv

Seattle, Washington, United States

About

Product leader with 15+ years building cloud security and infrastructure products at VMware, F5, and Securiti. Delivered enterprise security products used by thousands of organizations. Now VP of Product at Certiv, where we're building runtime assurance for AI agents, giving security teams visibility and policy enforcement where it matters most: at the point of execution. AI agents are taking real actions in real environments, and the security tooling hasn't caught up. That's the gap I'm focused on closing. Always up for a conversation about AI security, product strategy, or what it takes to build something new.

Experience

  • VP of Product at Certiv
    Oct 2025 - Present · 9 mos

    Founding team member at Certiv. Critical agentic work is happening on your endpoints. We provide complete visibility and control over AI agent on the endpoint, so your teams can move fast and stay safe.

  • Senior Director, Product Management, Data and AI Security at Securiti
    Dec 2023 - Oct 2025 · 1 yr 11 mos

    Headed product strategy and execution for a leading Data Security platform (DSPM). Drove initiatives in data discovery, classification, and policy management to enhance data governance and safety. Purposefully used AI throughout the data classification lifecycle to both increase product effectiveness and controlling costs.

  • VMware (Full-time · 5 yrs 2 mos)
    • Senior Director, Product Management, Cloud Security
      Aug 2022 - Dec 2023 · 1 yr 5 mos

      Lead product management team (Technical PMs, UX Design, and Documentation) for Tanzu Guardrails, a leader in multi-cloud governance and security https://tanzu.vmware.com/content/blog/vmware-overall-leader-cloud-security-posture-management

    • Director Product Management, Cloud Security
      Nov 2018 - Jul 2022 · 3 yrs 9 mos

      I lead product management for CloudHealth Secure State: https://www.cloudhealthtech.com/products/cloudhealth-secure-state, a cybersecurity SaaS that helps enterprise public cloud security teams, govern, detect, and remediate misconfigurations and threats that lead to unintended access to resources in the cloud.

  • F5 Networks (12 yrs 10 mos)
    • Sr. Director, Product Management
      Oct 2017 - Nov 2018 · 1 yr 2 mos

      Head of product management for traffic management and core shared services (TMOS) software platform. Targeted enterprises and service providers in order to scale, manage, and secure their critical networks and applications across data center, in virtualized environments, and public cloud. Total run rate business of $800M annually.

    • Director Product Management
      Oct 2014 - Sep 2017 · 3 yrs

      Introduced BIG-IP VE (Virtual Edition) and supporting automation into AWS, Azure, IBM, and Google Cloud marketplaces. Grew revenues to over $100M annually. Drove a shift from perpetual to subscription licensing.

    • Sr. Manager, Product Management and Marketing
      Oct 2012 - Sep 2014 · 2 yrs

      Lead a team of 10+ (Product Managers, PMM, and System Engineers) responsible for Enterprise product strategy and lifecycle of leading ADC focused on Local Traffic Manager, Application Acceleration, and the TMOS platform.

  • Program Manager at Active Voice, LLC.
    Jun 1999 - Feb 2006 · 6 yrs 9 mos

    Responsible for coordinating releases of Active Voice's PBX embedded voice mail and unified communication products through the entire SDLC. Quickly rose through the organization holding various roles from manufacturing engineering, new product introduction, manufacturing engineering manager before assuming the role of product development program manager.