1Password promotes Nancy Wang to CTO
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1Password promotes Nancy Wang to CTO. Toronto-based 1Password announced today that it has promoted Nancy Wang to CTO to drive the cybersecurity software company's engineering efforts and AI plans. Wang, who is based in the San Francisco Bay Area, most recently served as 1Password's senior VP and head of engineering and AI. Prior to joining 1Password, Wang worked as general manager and director of engineering and product for Amazon Web Services' data protection business, and was a founding product manager at Rubrik, roles that give her some past experience building and scaling enterprise infrastructure and security platforms. "I'm very bullish that we will continue being that trusted, privacy-centric, human-centric solution for agent security." As CTO, Wang replaces Pedro Canahuati, who departed 1Password last September after more than four years with the company. In an interview with BetaKit, Wang said that Canahuati hired her in May of 2025 to help guide 1Password's AI strategy, with an expectation that she would eventually become his successor. Since then, Wang said her focus has been on "bringing what 1Password is globally known for, which is protecting secrets [and] protecting credentials, into the agentic world." She will continue that work as CTO at a time when many businesses have been racing to adopt AI agents. Agentic AI has created a range of new security...
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