WSO2 has appointed Harry Ault as its new Chief Executive Officer, placing the experienced technology executive at the helm as the Sri Lankan-founded software company enters its next phase of global growth and expands its focus on AI governance.
WSO2 appoints veteran revenue executive Harry Ault to lead its global growth and AI strategy
WSO2 has appointed Harry Ault as Chief Executive Officer, with the technology company looking to build on its global customer base and accelerate its next stage of growth under new leadership.
Ault will assume day-to-day leadership of WSO2 immediately and work alongside the company’s executive team to advance its strategy and maintain momentum across international markets. His appointment follows the departure of founder and former CEO Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana from the chief executive role in May 2026.
WSO2 Chief Revenue Officer Devaka Randeniya served as Acting CEO during the transition period and will continue to work closely with Ault following the leadership change.
Ault brings more than two decades of experience in revenue leadership, strategic partnerships, corporate development and go-to-market strategy across global markets. His background includes building international sales organisations, developing strategic partnerships and supporting business expansion across multiple industries.
Before joining WSO2, Ault served as Chief Revenue Officer at SambaNova Systems, a company specialising in AI inference chip technology. In that role, he was responsible for global sales, marketing, field engineering and global support organisations.
Throughout his career, Ault has developed a track record of driving growth, integrating acquisitions and scaling go-to-market operations. His experience is expected to be particularly relevant as WSO2 AI governance becomes a central part of the company’s broader technology strategy.
The leadership appointment follows a period of expansion within WSO2’s senior management structure. During the past year, the company added a new Chief Financial Officer and Chief Marketing Officer, strengthening its executive team as it prepares for its next stage of international growth.
WSO2 is also advancing its vision for Trusted AI Governance, bringing together API management, integration, identity, engineering and agent platforms through its WSO2 Agentic Enterprise Fabric (AEF).
The company’s strategy is focused on extending governance beyond traditional applications and infrastructure to include AI agents and the foundations on which those agents operate. WSO2 says this governance capability is designed to be built into the platform natively rather than added as a separate layer.
For enterprises increasingly adopting artificial intelligence, the ability to manage AI agents while maintaining control, security and governance is becoming an important technology consideration. WSO2’s positioning around this market reflects the wider shift among software companies towards supporting organisations moving from conventional digital systems to AI-driven and agentic operating models.
WSO2 Chairman Jonas Persson welcomed Ault’s appointment, highlighting his experience in building teams and scaling global go-to-market strategies. The company believes that experience will help support its expansion as demand grows for technologies designed to manage increasingly complex enterprise environments.
Ault said WSO2 has built a strong platform and a customer base of more than 700 enterprise organisations over the past two decades. He described the company as being at an important point in its development as organisations transition towards AI-driven and agentic enterprises.
The new CEO also highlighted the importance of WSO2’s open-source roots and said he intends to deepen engagement with the open-source community while expanding the company’s global partner ecosystem.
His comments indicate that WSO2 plans to maintain its established developer and open-source relationships while pursuing broader enterprise opportunities. Strengthening the partner ecosystem could also help the company expand its reach in international markets and deliver its technology to a wider range of organisations.
The leadership transition comes at a significant point for the company as artificial intelligence reshapes enterprise software requirements. Businesses adopting AI agents face new challenges around governance, identity, integration, APIs, security and operational control, areas that align closely with WSO2’s existing technology portfolio.
For WSO2, the appointment of Ault therefore represents more than a change in executive leadership. It comes as the company seeks to translate its established enterprise technology platform into opportunities created by the rapid adoption of AI and agentic systems.
With Ault now leading day-to-day operations, the company’s immediate priorities will include advancing its global go-to-market strategy, strengthening customer relationships, expanding its partner network and developing its position in Trusted AI Governance.
The appointment also marks the latest chapter for a company founded by Sri Lankan technology entrepreneur Dr. Sanjiva Weerawarana, whose leadership helped establish WSO2 as an internationally recognised enterprise software provider. As Ault takes over, the company enters its next phase with a stronger focus on global scale and the rapidly evolving AI economy.