General Nakasone is widely recognized as a leading authority on information operations and cybersecurity. Nakasone is the longest-serving commander of the U.S. Cyber Command and concurrently led the NSA, where he directed signals intelligence operations and cybersecurity initiatives. His operational experience spans assignments in the United States, the Republic of Korea, Iraq, and Afghanistan. General Nakasone currently serves on the boards of OpenAI, Neuberger Berman Mutual Funds, WitnessAI and leads Vanderbilt University's Institute of National Security.
"Today's adversaries have been weaponizing information and targeting viral narratives to influence the will, perception, and behavior of U.S. citizens as effectively as they have been weaponizing malware.The United States has been reactive in its response to these influence campaigns due to the complexity of information and the limitations of reasoning and outdated software tools until now. Accrete's Knowledge Engine platform enables AI Agents to detect, deter, and counter hostile influence campaigns at superhuman speed and scale. Accrete's Knowledge Engines give the United States a decision advantage in gray zone cognitive warfare. I'm excited to help accelerate these critical capabilities and out-pace malign actors in this new era of information warfare," said General Nakasone.
In his new role, General Nakasone will advise Accrete on product development, go-to- market strategy, and information security with an emphasis on trust, safety, and ethics.
"Bad actors are working hard to exploit reasoning vulnerabilities by leveraging AI to spread viral disinformation and weaken institutions. Accrete's Knowledge Engines ground LLMs in the first principles of an organization's experience, standards, values, and ethics to capture and scale reasoning capacity and that is the key to overcoming information complexity and winning in gray zone cognitive warfare. General Nakasone understands better than anyone the uniqueness of the challenges faced by the U.S. Defense and Intelligence Community. Under General Nakasone's guidance, we will fortify national security and emerge victorious," said Prashant Bhuyan, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Accrete, Inc.
Accrete's Knowledge Engines are already enabling customers including the U.S. Department of Defense, and Fortune 100 corporations to proactively combat information and economic warfare. Accrete's AI agents have been employed to detect, deter, and counter influence campaigns waged by foreign adversaries; identify foreign influence risk within the supply chain; and prevent the exploitation of IT vulnerabilities.
Key members of Accrete's team, which is comprised of Intelligence and Military veterans, commented on the Nakasone appointment here: https://www.accrete.ai/blog/strategic-board-advisor
About General Paul M. Nakasone, U.S. Army (Retired)
General Paul M. Nakasone, a retired U.S. Army four-star general, serves as the Founding Director of Vanderbilt University's Institute of National Security. From 2018 to 2024, General Nakasone led U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency, overseeing national cyber defense and global signals intelligence operations. A career military leader with more than three decades of experience, he has commanded at all levels, with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and has held key intelligence and joint staff roles. A recognized authority on cyber operations and national security, General Nakasone continues to advance dialogue and research on emerging global security challenges, inspiring innovation and leadership in this critical field.
About Accrete
Accrete is a dual-use AI company founded in 2017 to create agents for decision automation to power autonomous enterprises with zero knowledge loss. Deployed within the Department of Defense and Fortune 500 enterprises, Accrete’s Expert AI Agents give customers the decision edge in mission-critical environments. Accrete, Inc. is headquartered in Lower Manhattan with offices in Alexandria, Virginia and Wellesley, Massachusetts.
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