Amit Mital was appointed as the Senior Director in the National Security Council and Special Assistant to the President. Prior to joining the Government, he was the CEO and Founder of Kernel Labs, a start-up with expertise in machine-learning, computer vision, and security. He was later appointed as the strategic advisor of eSentire.

As eSentire’s Strategic Advisor, Mital played an integral role in supporting the advancement of the company’s MDR services and cloud-native Extended Detection and Response (XDR) platform, eSentire Atlas. With his support, eSentire has positioned itself to solve one of the CISO’s greatest challenges, achieving security at scale, by delivering expert level threat disruption, containment and response through cloud-based integration, with redundancy and reliability, on demand. Mital is the founder and CEO of Kernel Labs, an incubator for creating startups in Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. He previously served as Executive Vice President, General Manager, and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) at Symantec Corporation and spent 20 years at Microsoft in various positions with the last being Corporate Vice President for the Startup Business Group.

He has earned his Master of Science degree in Computer Engineering from Dartmounth College.