Simbian announces John Schmitz as Senior Vice President of Sales, leading the global sales organization and enterprise growth initiatives. John officially joined the Simbian leadership team earlier this month and brings over two decades of proven sales leadership in high-growth cybersecurity companies. He’s a results-driven executive known for building high-performance sales teams, implementing innovative sales methodologies, and consistently driving exceptional revenue growth.
With a partner-driven model and growing ecosystem of VARs, MDRs, MSSPs, and System Integrators, John will lead the orchestration of complex enterprise deals that enable the channel partners to succeed.
As SVP of Sales, John will oversee all aspects of our sales strategy, enterprise business development, and strategic account management, leveraging his deep expertise in data-driven sales optimization and international market expansion.
His distinguished career spans leadership roles at industry titans including Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, Oracle, Dell, Splunk, and several high-growth companies that achieved successful acquisitions, demonstrating his ability to build sales engines that create enterprise value.
“AI’s transformation of enterprise security is accelerating faster than most organizations realize, and Simbian is uniquely positioned to lead this revolution, and I’m excited to join Ambuj and the entire Simbian team to scale our sales organization globally,” said John. “Having worked with hundreds of enterprise security teams throughout my career, I’ve witnessed firsthand the challenges they face with talent shortages and increasing threat complexity. Simbian’s AI agent technology doesn’t just solve these problems—it fundamentally changes how security operations can scale.”
As Simbian continues to revolutionize the security landscape with our AI agent solutions, we’re experiencing unprecedented demand from enterprise customers seeking to address the global cybersecurity talent shortage. Our AI SOC technology is resonating strongly with Fortune 500 companies, government agencies, and large enterprises who recognize that traditional security approaches can’t keep pace with today’s threat environment.
Additionally, John said, “My goal is to build a sales engine that enables every enterprise customer to harness the full power of AI-driven security while ensuring our partners thrive alongside us. The data is clear: organizations that embrace AI security agents now will have a massive competitive advantage. It’s time to be bold about the future of security.”
With John at the helm, Simbian is building a world-class, enterprise-focused sales team that will establish us as the definitive AI agent platform for large-scale security operations. Leading with a philosophy that combines data-driven insights with collaborative cross-functional execution, Simbian is modeling our sales approach around understanding each customer’s unique security challenges and delivering measurable business outcomes.
With Simbian’s expanding AI agent portfolio and relentless focus on solving real enterprise security challenges, the company listens to customers across every vertical, delivering transformative solutions that demonstrate just how powerful AI becomes when backed by a world-class sales organization committed to customer success.
Simbian is on a mission to solve security for businesses using AI. Simbian offers AI Agents that work like virtual employees and autonomously complete a variety of security tasks with increased precision and efficiency.
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