It is an incredible honor to welcome Michael Lashlee, Chief Security Officer at Mastercard, to the Bloo Advisory Board.
His career spans 25 years with the U.S. Secret Service, cyber investigations, crisis management, resilience, and the responsibility of protecting one of the world's most complex global enterprises. He has spent decades working in environments where the consequences are real, the stakes are high, and security is fundamental to trust and continuity.
But titles and career milestones only tell part of the story.
A voice that carries beyond the enterprise
Michael is one of those rare security leaders whose perspective carries weight far beyond the organization he represents.
His experience places him in conversations that span governments, law enforcement, global institutions, boards, and some of the world's largest enterprises. His perspective helps shape how leaders think about security, resilience, emerging risks, and the impact of technology on critical institutions.
That depth of perspective is extraordinary.
A shared view of Enterprise AI
What makes this particularly exciting for us at Bloo is that Michael shares our conviction about what AI can become inside the enterprise.
We are entering a period where AI agents will do much more than answer questions. They will investigate, reason, collaborate with other agents, make recommendations, and increasingly participate in decisions that have real operational consequences.
That creates an entirely new set of problems.
At Bloo, some of the questions we are researching go beyond simply making an AI model more capable.
- How do we create verifiable machine decisions, so an enterprise can establish why an agent reached a conclusion?
- How do we preserve causal path identity as work moves through agents, tools, and systems?
- How do we maintain an intent record for subagents, so the original purpose behind an autonomous action is not lost as tasks are delegated?
- How do we understand and protect against multi-agent collusion as autonomous systems begin to interact with each other?
These are not theoretical questions if AI is going to become part of how large enterprises operate.
Turning telemetry into intelligence
We believe AI agents will ultimately be able to take the enormous volumes of telemetry enterprises generate every day, data that has historically been treated as a cost and a burden, and turn it into intelligence that helps the enterprise investigate, understand, decide, and act.
Doing that responsibly requires more than AI technology.
It requires trust, governance, resilience, accountability, and a deep understanding of what it takes to operate technology at enterprise scale.
That is where Michael's experience can have a profound impact on Bloo.
We share a belief in what Enterprise AI can become, and together we have the opportunity to push that thinking further and build a world-class offering for the enterprise.
Building for the institutions we hope to serve
Building a company inevitably forces you to think beyond the product you started with.
You have to think about the institutions you hope to serve, the standards they expect, and the responsibility that comes with becoming part of their critical technology environment.
I am grateful that Michael shares our belief in what AI can become inside the enterprise, and I am excited that we now have the opportunity to build towards that future together.
Welcome to Bloo, Michael.