Oren Saban

“I love cybersecurity because it’s a win-win-win: fight the bad guys, build awesome products, and take technology to its edge. That never stopped being exciting.”

Oren combines deep security operations expertise with AI product development experience. Before Mate, he led product for Microsoft Defender XDR and Security Copilot, where his work helped thousands of security teams reduce mean-time-to-response. While there, he ran red-blue SOC simulations to map how security teams actually work, translating those insights into product decisions that now help over 10,000 organizations. He later served as Director of Product at Apex AI Security, leading an AI security investigation platform from concept to enterprise deployments and Gartner recognition. His experience spans both large-scale security platforms and AI-first security products. Oren also heads PM101, Israel’s flagship product leadership course, where he teaches how to build practical, explainable AI products that scale in the real world. His teaching experience helps him communicate complex AI concepts to both technical and business audiences.