Blackbird.AI Hires Key Industry Executives Mark Oney as Chief Product Officer, Mark Cox as Senior Vice President Of Finance, and Greg Young as SVP Of Commercial Strategy And Delivery To Further The Company’s Technical Leadership And Scale Growth.

NEW YORK, March 12th, 2025 — Blackbird.AI, the leader in protecting organizations and executives from narrative attacks that cause financial and reputational harm – announced today that Mark Oney has joined the company as Chief Product Officer, Mark Cox as Senior Vice President of Finance and Greg Young, as SVP of Commercial Strategy and Delivery. Adding these key executive team members will enable the company to accelerate its AI-based technical leadership in narrative intelligence that safeguards brands and their executive teams from narrative attacks – what the World Economic Forum named the most significant global threat in 2025 for the second year.

“We have brought on Mark Oney, Mark Cox and Greg Young at a pivotal time as organizations face a new threat vector of risk from harmful narrative attacks that manipulate public perception, target executives, attack companies and erode brand trust within minutes, said Wasim Khaled, CEO and Co-founder of Blackbird.AI. “As we propel our mission forward, their strategic acumen, combined with their vast experience, will be instrumental in accelerating our growth, serving our customers, and achieving new heights of success for the company.”

Mark is the Chief Product Officer at Blackbird.AI and leads the company’s product strategy and delivery of market-leading Narrative Intelligence products. He has over 25 years of executive-level Engineering and Product Management experience including serving as CPO at AI-based Kyndi (acquired by Qlik), CPO of Granicus (acquired by K1 Capital), SVP of Product Operations at VirtuOz (acquired by Nuance, now Microsoft), and SVP of Product Operations at Sabrix (acquired by Thompson Reuters). He also held engineering leadership positions at Evant (acquired by Manhattan Associates), Extensity (IPO acquired by Geac), and Apple’s PowerBook and Hardware Division. Oney holds a BSEE from Rochester Institute of Technology.

Mark is the Senior Vice President of Finance at Blackbird.AI and leads the company’s financial strategy and operating model. He has over 15 years of leadership-level Financial Management experience, with a strong track record in finance, accounting, and mergers and acquisitions for various technology companies, including Crowdstrike and Redacted. Cox has also spent time in client service and consulting at Riveron Consulting and Ernst & Young. He holds an MBA and a BS in Accounting from the University of Texas at Dallas.

Greg is the SVP of Commercial Strategy and Delivery at Blackbird.AI, driving the evolution of digital media threat intelligence and strategy at the intersection of analytics, media, and technology. His experience includes leadership roles at a major media investment firm and helped establish the advanced analytics and media security offerings at Weber Shandwick, a global leading communications agency, pioneering the use of AI, NLP, and OSINT to guide communications strategies and held roles at various agencies where he’d led nine-figure media strategies and integrated analytics into marketing and communications solutions. He is a cum laude graduate of the University of Lynchburg with a degree in Business Administration and Marketing.

In a recent Forrester Threat Intelligence Landscape Report, 2025, Blackbird.AI was the only notable vendor focused on protection against narrative (misinformation) attacks. They state that “AI is increasingly used to enhance threat intelligence but is also a source of new threats. AI-generated attacks will become more complex and lower the barrier for new threat actors. Convincing deepfakes and complex narrative attacks are harbingers of more sophisticated threats, driving the need to fight fire with fire. Defensively, AI-infused threat intelligence will be able to handle expanding data volumes, identify previously unknown relationships, extract finer contextual data points, and provide deeper multisource data infusion. Expect more automation with predictive analytics and targeted recommendations.”

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About Blackbird.AI

BLACKBIRD.AI protects organizations and executives from narrative attacks that cause financial and reputational harm. Our AI-driven Narrative Intelligence Platform identifies key narratives that impact your organization/industry, the influence behind them, the networks they touch, the anomalous behavior that scales them, and the cohorts and communities that connect them. This information enables organizations to proactively understand narrative threats as they scale and become harmful for better strategic decision-making. A diverse team of AI experts, threat intelligence analysts, and national security professionals founded Blackbird.AI to defend information integrity and fight a new class of narrative threats. To learn more, visit Blackbird.AI.