Adam Towns is Chief Financial and Operating Officer of Darktrace, a leader in behavioral security, enabling nearly 10,000 organizations worldwide to secure what AI can do. With its Adaptive AI, Darktrace continuously learns the unique behavior of each organization to protect AI, people, and infrastructure across the modern enterprise.

Adam joined Darktrace in August 2026. As Chief Financial and Operating Officer, Towns will oversee Darktrace’s global finance organization and key operating capabilities across business performance, systems, data and analytics with a focus on strengthening financial discipline, capital allocation, decision-making and execution discipline.

Towns has extensive experience scaling high-growth enterprise software businesses across AI, analytics and cybersecurity. He most recently served as Chief Financial Officer of Dataiku, an enterprise AI platform. Before Dataiku, he was Chief Financial Officer of Sisense, an AI-powered analytics platform, where he led global finance and business operations. Earlier in his career, he held senior finance leadership roles at Mimecast supporting the company through significant international growth, its initial public offering and several years as a public company.  

Adam holds an LLB (Honours) in Law from Cardiff University.