Sundari Parekh is a senior security executive and strategist serving as Vice President of AI Security, Strategy & Architecture at TrendAI™, where she leads the development of enterprise security strategy and architectural frameworks for AI?driven, agentic, and autonomous systems. Her work focuses on helping organizations operationalize AI securely - moving beyond infrastructure protection to governing intent, autonomy, and machine?driven decision?making at scale.

Prior to TrendAI, Sundari served as Head of Business Security Services at CDW, where she built a business?facing information security function designed to enable innovation while managing risk across cloud, SaaS, application, and third?party ecosystems. At CDW, she strengthened cloud security posture, aligned third?party risk to service providers, modernized incident response, and partnered closely with engineering teams to embed secure development and runtime practices. This role refined her ability to translate complex security and emerging?technology risk into practical, outcome?driven programs for business leaders. Previously, Sundari was Vice President of Security Risk Management at Activision Blizzard King, where she centralized and matured security risk functions across multiple global business units. Earlier in her career, Sundari served as Chief Information Security Officer at Allstream and held senior leadership roles at InComm, where she built global capabilities in security governance, third?party risk, business resilience, and crisis management—leading organizations through large?scale disruptions while maintaining customer trust.

Across her career, Sundari is recognized for bridging deep technical and risk expertise with executive clarity, and for shaping security as a strategic enabler of AI adoption. She brings a systems?level perspective to securing the next compute layer, helping enterprises innovate with AI while embedding trust, resilience, and accountability by design.