CAEVES Technology Names Kirk Ryan Director of AI Innovation, Advisory Board
NEW YORK, Sept. 16, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- CAEVES Technology, Inc., the leading AI Data Platform for Unstructured Data, securely transforming enterprise dark data into accessible, searchable, and AI-ready assets, today announced that Kirk Ryan has joined its Advisory Board as Director of AI Innovation. Ryan will lead the buildout of CAEVES' AI practice and guide the next phase of product portfolio development, with a focus on extending the CAEVES AI Data Platform beyond Microsoft Copilot to additional AI assistant ecosystems.
Ryan brings two decades of experience scaling mission-critical infrastructure across startups and large enterprises. He previously served as Global Principal Technologist at NetApp and is Managing Director of KDBL, a United Kingdom based AI consultancy firm. A recognized voice in enterprise AI, retrieval-augmented generation, search, and the Model Context Protocol, Ryan writes and speaks regularly on the technical foundations that connect enterprise data to AI systems.
In this role, Ryan will work alongside the CAEVES product and engineering teams to:
- Expand AI assistant compatibility, extending the AI Data Platform's reach from Microsoft Copilot to other leading AI platforms and assistants
- Advance indexing and contextualization, strengthening how unstructured data is made discoverable and machine-usable at scale, on premises and in all major cloud providers
- Deepen governance and security, reinforcing the controls enterprises require to bring AI to sensitive, regulated data, through data lineage, classification, enrichment and redaction
- Broaden platform reach, working toward a model that makes unstructured enterprise data accessible across any cloud, any storage platform, and available to any AI platform or assistant
"Kirk has spent his career solving the hard infrastructure problems that sit underneath enterprise AI," said Jaap van Duijvenbode, VP of Product & Customer Experience at CAEVES Technology. "As organizations look to extend AI beyond a single assistant or a single cloud, his experience is exactly what we need to build that path responsibly and at scale."
"Unstructured data is the largest untapped resource in the enterprise, and it is currently locked to whichever AI assistant happens to be in front of it," said Kirk Ryan. "CAEVES has already proven the model with Microsoft Copilot as part of its Intelligent Deep Storage™ offering, currently available for Microsoft Azure customers. My focus is helping extend that same discipline around indexing, governance, and security to the broader AI ecosystem, so enterprises can put their dark data to work wherever they choose to run AI."
Ryan's appointment reflects CAEVES' continued investment in its AI Data Platform as enterprises seek to unlock unstructured and archival data for AI-driven insight, regardless of where that data lives or which AI assistant accesses it.
About CAEVES Technology, Inc.
CAEVES helps organizations securely transform enterprise dark data into accessible, searchable, and AI-ready assets while reducing storage costs and AI investments. Built natively on Microsoft Azure, CAEVES Intelligent Deep Storage™ tiers inactive data to durable, low-cost object storage and indexes it for Microsoft 365 Search & Copilot, all within the customer's own environment and with no vendor lock-in. Founded by the team behind Talon Storage, CAEVES has offices in the United States, the Netherlands, and India.
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