DUBLIN, Ireland, Sep 2, 2025 – Jentic has named Erik Wilde, a Ph.D. in computer science from ETH Zurich, as head of enterprise strategy. He will lead efforts to integrate AI agents securely and at scale across enterprise systems aligning with i8nfrastructure and future strategy.
Erik Wilde serves as an ambassador for the OpenAPI Initiative, a Linux Foundation program that maintains a API specification. Over three decades, he has authored Internet standards through the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), taught web architecture at ETH Zurich and UC Berkeley, and advised organizations in finance, healthcare, and government on API adoption and system modernization.
“Erik is quite literally one of the architects of the modern web and APIs as we know them today,” said Sean Blanchfield, co-founder and CEO of Jentic. “The fact that he’s chosen Jentic to shape the future of AI agents is a remarkable endorsement. It heralds the era of serious, standards-driven agent adoption in the enterprise.”
Wilde has worked to position APIs as part of enterprise strategy. As a co-author of Continuous API Management, he contributed to establishing APIs as managed business assets.
“Agents will only succeed in the enterprise when they are managed with the same rigor as APIs, in terms of how they are enabled, supported, and governed,” said Erik Wilde. “Jentic understands this better than anyone. By building on existing API ecosystems and open standards like OpenAPI and Arazzo, Jentic is creating the foundation for agents to safely, robustly, and intelligently work within the enterprise . That’s why I am joining this team.”
Wilde’s appointment adds academic, standards, and enterprise expertise to Jentic’s work on agent-to-API interoperability. The announcement coincides with the closed beta expansion of Jentic Standard Agent, a hosted, standards-based service for enterprise AI agent adoption.
Source: Jentic
About Jentic
Jentic, founded in 2024 and based in Dublin, Ireland, is an AI infrastructure startup developing a secure, open integration layer to connect AI agents with APIs and workflows. Its Just-In-Time Tooling engine loads only the tools needed for each task, improving reliability and efficiency. Jentic supports OpenAPI and Arazzo and offers a catalog of more than 1,500 APIs and 2,000 workflows through its Open Agentic Knowledge repository. The platform includes managed authentication, centralized credential management, and unified permissions. Jentic also provides observability, security, and scalability features to support enterprise AI deployments. Currently in closed beta, the company has raised about $4.5M in seed funding. Jentic focuses on industries using AI agents for enterprise automation and API-based workflows.