Dr. Sean Hays

Dr. Sean Hays is the Senior Manager of Cyber Defense at American Express Global Business Travel (Amex GBT), where he focuses on machine-speed security to combat AI-driven threats. He oversees counter-adversary operations, incident response, and detection engineering, recently transforming the SOC into one of the industry's first agentic AI-augmented centers. Dr. Hays holds a PhD in technology assessment from Arizona State University, where he studied how emerging tech reshapes complex systems, which he applies to real-world security objectives.