LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Apr 1, 2026--
Senzing, developers of industry-leading entity resolution technology, today announced that Stephen Gilderdale has joined the company as President & Chief Commercial Officer. In this role, Gilderdale will lead the company’s global commercial organization, with responsibility for sales, partnerships, marketing, and revenue operations.
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Gilderdale brings deep experience building and scaling customer-facing teams across enterprise technology. Before joining Senzing®, he served as Executive Vice President of Global Customer Solutions and Services at Collibra, where he led a global organization focused on helping enterprises build greater confidence in their data and turn that confidence into business results. Earlier in his career, he held senior go-to-market leadership roles at Dell Technologies and also gained formative experience in financial markets.
At Senzing, Gilderdale will work closely with customers and partners to help organizations across banking, insurance, and AI agentic deployments unlock greater value from identity intelligence and trusted data. This work is increasingly important as enterprises look to strengthen AI, analytics, and real-time decisioning with more accurate, connected, and explainable entity data.
“Stephen is a proven growth leader who knows how to align teams, sharpen execution, and keep the customer at the center of the business,” said Jeff Jonas, Founder and CEO of Senzing. “He brings the commercial discipline, global operating experience, and leadership maturity that will help Senzing scale its next phase of growth as enterprises rise to meet both the opportunities and risks of agentic AI.”
“I am excited to join Senzing at such an important stage of growth, as demand for identity intelligence continues to rise across AI and agentic markets,” said Gilderdale. “Organizations everywhere are under pressure to turn complex data into trusted insight they can act on. Senzing brings a unique ability to help customers do exactly that. I look forward to working with the team, customers, and partners to build on that momentum.”
About Senzing
Senzing delivers the identity intelligence organizations need to achieve their agentic AI aspirations. As the creator of Agentic Entity Resolution, Senzing enables AI agents to autonomously identify and act on real-world entities in real time or batch—keeping all data secure within customer infrastructure. Backed by 40+ years of innovation and 300+ years of combined team experience, Senzing is trusted by organizations worldwide to ensure their AI agents operate on accurate and trustworthy data. Senzing is headquartered in Las Vegas, Nevada. For more information, visit www.senzing.ai.
Stephen Gilderdale
BAGHDAD (AP) — An American journalist who was kidnapped in Baghdad had tried to cross from Syria into Iraq three weeks earlier and was initially turned back, an Iraqi official said Wednesday.
U.S. and Iraqi officials said Shelly Renee Kittleson had also been warned of threats against her in the days before her abduction. A freelance journalist who has worked for years in Iraq and Syria, Kittleson was kidnapped from a street in the Iraqi capital Tuesday and remains missing.
Hussein Alawi, an adviser to Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani, said Kittleson had sought to enter via the al-Qaim crossing from Syria on March 9 but was turned back because she did not have a press work permit and because security concerns due to “the escalation of the war and aerial projectiles over Iraqi airspace as a result of the war on Iran.”
She later entered the country after obtaining a single-entry visa to Iraq valid for 60 days issued to allow foreign citizens stranded in neighboring countries to “transit through Iraq to reach their home countries via available transport routes,” he said.
Kittleson entered Baghdad a few days before she was kidnapped and was staying in a hotel in the capital, he said.
“The incident is being followed closely by Iraqi security and intelligence agencies under the supervision of” al-Sudani, Alawi said. He noted that one suspect believed to be involved in the kidnapping plot has been arrested and is being interrogated.
Iraqi security forces gave chase to her captors and arrested one suspect after the car he was driving crashed, but other kidnappers were able to escape with the journalist in a second car.
An Iraqi intelligence official who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment, said Iraqi authorities believe she is being held in Baghdad and are trying to locate her and secure her release. He said authorities “have information about the abducting party” but declined to give more details.
U.S. officials have alleged that Kittleson was taken by Kataib Hezbollah, an Iran-linked Iraqi militia that has been implicated in previous kidnappings of foreigners. The group has not claimed the kidnapping and the Iraqi government has not publicly said anything about the kidnappers' affiliation.
The Iraqi intelligence official said that prior to Kittleson's abduction, Iraqis had contacted U.S. officials to notify them that there was a specific kidnapping threat against her by Iran-affiliated militias.
Dylan Johnson, U.S. assistant secretary of state for public affairs, said on X Tuesday that the “State Department previously fulfilled our duty to warn this individual of threats against them.”
A U.S. official, who also spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to comment publicly, said, “She was contacted multiple times with warnings of the threats against her," including as late as the night before the kidnapping.
Surveillance footage that was obtained by The Associated Press shows what seems to be the moment the journalist was kidnapped in Baghdad. It shows two men approaching a person standing on a street corner and ushering the person into the back of a car. There appears to be a brief struggle to shut the car door before the men get into the vehicle and it drives away.
Iran-backed militias in Iraq have launched regular attacks on U.S. facilities in the country since the beginning of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran.
Associated Press writer Matthew Lee in Washington contributed to this report.
A street view shows the street corner in central Baghdad's Saadoun Street where U.S. journalist Shelly Kittleson was kidnapped in central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 1 2026. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)
A street view shows the street corner in central Baghdad's Saadoun Street where U.S. journalist Shelly Kittleson was kidnapped in central Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, April 1 2026. (AP Photo/ Hadi Mizban)
