Prevalent AI appoints ISTARI’s JD Sherry as Chief Revenue Officer to drive global expansion.
Appointment will support growing demand across key regions as Prevalent AI’s use cases expand from cybersecurity into the wider AI context platform market.
LONDON, 15 October 2026 – Prevalent AI , an accelerating leader in AI-powered enterprise context, has appointed JD Sherry as Chief Revenue Officer (CRO). Sherry will lead the company’s global go-to-market organisation across sales, marketing, and partnerships, building its capacity to meet accelerating demand, particularly in the US.
Demand for trusted enterprise context is growing as organisations deploy AI agents that need accurate, continuously updated information to reliably operate. Gartner estimates the market for AI context platforms at $28 billion in 2026, rising to $78 billion by 2030, and expects most enterprises running agents in production to standardise on a dedicated context platform by 2028. [1]
“AI agents need accurate data and a clear understanding of the organisation they are acting for. Too often, that foundation is fragmented or incomplete,” said Paul Stokes, CEO and co-founder of Prevalent AI. “We provide the trusted context that gives teams and agents the confidence to make decisions. JD already knows Prevalent AI well, as an investor and board member through ISTARI. With his experience in advising boards and security leaders on cyber resilience, he is the right person to take our Knowledge Graph beyond cybersecurity into the wider enterprise.”
Sherry joins from ISTARI, where he was Managing Partner and Global Head of Sales, advising executive leadership teams and boards on cyber resilience. He has a career spanning nearly three decades in cybersecurity and has served on the boards of several ISTARI portfolio companies, guiding product development and go-to-market growth, including Prevalent AI, in which ISTARI has been an investor in since 2021. Prior to ISTARI, Sherry was Chief Strategy Officer and CRO at Remediant, Inc., and has held leadership roles at Optiv, Cavirin and Trend Micro.
“AI agents are only as reliable as the context beneath them,” said Sherry. “As a board member and investor, I have worked closely with Paul and the leadership team and have seen first-hand how Prevalent AI built that foundation, profitably and on customer revenue alone. Demand now reaches well beyond security, and I am joining to help more organisations around the world put it to work.”
The appointment follows Prevalent AI’s recent $22 million growth investment from Integrity Growth Partners . It was the first primary capital raised in the company’s nine-year history and is funding global expansion, a deeper leadership team and the continued extension of its Data Fabric and Knowledge Graph beyond cybersecurity into wider use cases that require the same trusted enterprise context.
Since 2017, Prevalent AI’s Data Fabric has resolved fragmented data from hundreds of sources into a continuously updated Knowledge Graph for some of the world’s largest and most regulated organisations. Customers typically start with cybersecurity use cases such as exposure and vulnerability management, controls monitoring and insider threat, then apply the same data models in IT, financial services and business operations.
“As a shareholder in Prevalent AI since 2021, we have seen the company earn the trust of many of the world’s most complex organisations,” said Rossa Shanks, CEO, ISTARI “We are pleased to see JD lead its next phase of growth.”
[1] Gartner, Market Overview for AI Context Platforms, 13 August 2026