New OneTrust CEO on Why AI Governance Market Is Set to Surge

New CEO John Heyman Says Enterprises Need Tools to Manage Thousands of AI Agents Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • March 5, 2026

OneTrust tapped the ex-leader of Snap One as its next CEO and tasked him with establishing guardrails to safely adopt artificial intelligence technologies.

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The Atlanta-based AI governance vendor will lean on John Heyman to develop systems capable of tracking AI activity, monitoring data flows, and managing risk across internal and third-party technologies. Heyman believes OneTrust's existing expertise in privacy, consent and risk management will provide a foundation for addressing these governance challenges.

"At the beginning of 2025, companies didn't have a single generative AI agent in production in their business," Heyman told Information Security Media Group. "By the end of last year, they had tens of agents. If you fast forward to ...