Arthur L. Kelly

About Arthur L. Kelly

People-first sales leader passionate about driving growth through strategic partnerships,…

Experience

1. Director of Sales

   Operant AI

   Oct 2025 — Present · San Francisco, CA, US

   Operant AI is an industry-defining cybersecurity leader at the forefront of securing AI & MCP. Operant\'s AI Gatekeeper, MCP Gateway, and 3D Runtime Defense Platform discover, detect, and defend against the most critical attacks across APIs, K8s, LLMs and Agents. Within minutes of Operant’s single-step deployment, security and AI engineering teams gain a completely new level of active protection for their AI and Cloud applications, workloads, models, APIs, MCP (servers, clients & tools) and Agents, bringing frictionless security to everywhere you deploy AI so that teams can deploy products and AI faster without security holding them back. Named as a vendor in Gartner\'s 2025 Market Guide for AI Trust, Risk, and Security Management (AI TRiSM) and API Threat Protection, along with \"How to Secure Custom-Built Agents\"(April 2025), as well as a Latio AI Security Leader and a Tech Ascension Award for Cloud Security, Operant AI\'s unique combination of capabilities solves the most urgent problems facing security teams in the Age of AI with a deployment so simple, there is absolutely no reason to wait. See for yourself the power and simplicity of Operant with a 7-day free trial.I play a pivotal role in driving sales at Operant AI, where we redefine cybersecurity for AI applications. • Developed and implemented sales strategies that contributed to Operant\'s recognition as a leader in AI security. • Fostered collaboration between sales and engineering teams to streamline security deployment processes. • Engaged with clients to demonstrate the effectiveness of our solutions, including the AI Gatekeeper and MCP Gateway.

Education

• Arkansas Baptist College

  Bachelor of Arts, Business Administration

  2005 — 2009

• Southern New Hampshire University

  Master of Science - MS, Organizational Leadership

  2018 — 2020

• Parkview Magnet High School

  Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, General

Skills

• Management
• Team Building
• Budgets
• Sales Process
• Solution Selling
• P&L
• Mentoring
• Strategic Planning
• Retail Management
• Human Resources
• Training & Development
• Team Leadership
• Visual Merchandising
• Big Box
• Profit
• Public Speaking
• Inventory Management
• Inventory Control
• Sales
• Merchandising
• Strategic Communications
• Shrinkage
• Employee Training
• Loss Prevention
• Time Management
• Hiring
• Retail Sales
• Sales Operations
• Store Operations
• Training
• Logistics
• Customer Satisfaction
• Customer Experience
• Retail
• Sales Management
• Driving Results
• Store Management
• Leadership