Vectra AI Appoints Italo Calvano as Regional Vice President, Latin America to Accelerate Regional Growth

SAN JOSE, Calif., August 18, 2026 - Vectra AI, the leader in AI-native security and observability, today announced the appointment of Italo Calvano as Regional Vice President, Latin America (LATAM). Based in Brazil, Calvano's appointment establishes Vectra AI's leadership presence in Latin America and commitment to the region. 

Calvano brings more than 25 years of experience in enterprise technology and cybersecurity, with deep expertise in building and scaling businesses across Latin America. In his new role, he will lead Vectra AI's regional business, with a focus on accelerating growth and strengthening relationships with customers and partners. 

"Latin America is an important market for Vectra AI, with organizations across the region navigating the same fundamental shift we're seeing globally: increasingly complex environments and a rapidly evolving threat landscape," said Derek Phillips, Chief Revenue Officer at Vectra AI. "Establishing dedicated leadership in the region reflects our commitment to being closer to our customers and partners as they take on these challenges. We see tremendous opportunity in Latin America, and I'm excited to have Italo leading this next chapter for Vectra AI in the region." 

"Italo understands this market deeply and has spent his career building businesses, customer relationships, and partner ecosystems across Latin America," said Ken Smith, Senior Vice President, Americas at Vectra AI. "His experience and leadership make him the right person to lead our business in the region. With Italo on the ground, we can work even more closely with customers and partners and help more organizations defend against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats." 

Calvano's appointment comes as organizations across Latin America navigate an increasingly complex cybersecurity environment. As enterprise environments evolve to span cloud, SaaS, identity, IoT/OT, edge, and AI infrastructure, security teams face an expanding attack surface and growing pressure to identify and stop attacks before they become breaches. With dedicated leadership in the region, Vectra AI will work more closely with customers and partners to address these challenges and strengthen cyber resilience. 

"Latin America is home to some of the world's most innovative and rapidly evolving organizations, and there is tremendous opportunity to help them strengthen their security as their environments become increasingly complex," said Italo Calvano, Regional Vice President, Latin America at Vectra AI. "What attracted me to Vectra AI is its differentiated approach to protecting the modern enterprise and the opportunity to build something meaningful in this region. I'm excited to work alongside our customers and partners, grow our presence across LATAM, and bring Vectra AI's technology and expertise to more organizations throughout Latin America." 

To learn more about how Vectra AI secures modern enterprises from AI-powered attacks, visit https://www.vectra.ai/platform. 

About Vectra AI

Vectra AI is the leader in AI-native security and observability. As artificial intelligence changes who and what works inside the enterprise, attackers are exploiting more attack paths, abusing trusted identities, and automating attacks at unprecedented speed and scale. Rooted in more than a decade of behavioral AI and machine learning innovation, Vectra AI helps security teams observe behavior across the enterprise, understand attacker activity, signal what matters, and act with confidence. The result is reduced attack exposure, removal of attack paths, and faster detection, investigation and response through agentic SOC automation. With 39 patents, recognition as a Leader in the 2025 and 2026 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Network Detection and Response, and the trust of more than 2,000 organizations worldwide, Vectra AI secures the AI enterprise.

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