STU SJOUWERMAN is the founder and executive chairman of KnowBe4, Inc., the world’s largest security awareness training platform serving over 70,000 organizations globally. A serial entrepreneur with more than 30 years in the IT industry, he was a co-founder of Sunbelt Software and was named the 2023 Excellence in Customer Service Award Executive of the Year. He currently leads Cyberheist News, delivering cybersecurity insights to IT professionals worldwide. He is also the founder of ReadingMinds.ai, an AI-native research platform that conducts emotionally intelligent voice interviews at scale—turning hours of calls and weeks of waiting into overnight insights. That work reflects his broader thesis: when agents can sense context, reason with memory, and act across channels, marketers stop firefighting and start compounding.