# Schellman

> Schellman provides independent cybersecurity, privacy, and IT compliance assessments for organizations selling into demanding markets. Its specialist teams cover SOC examinations, ISO certifications, payment security, federal cloud assessments, healthcare compliance, penetration testing, and AI governance, with a single-assessor approach designed to reduce repeated work across standards.

- **Founded:** 2002
- **Headquarters:** Tampa, United States
- **Founders:** Chris Schellman (Founder)
- **Products:** SOC examinations and attestations, ISO certifications, FedRAMP and federal assessments, Payment card assessments, Healthcare assessments
- **Notable:** Founded as a two-person SAS 70 examination practice in 2002., First ANAB-accredited ISO 42001 certification body, announced September 24, 2024., Certified B Corporation since June 2024; B Lab lists a score of 82.5.

## Products & services

- **SOC examinations and attestations** — Readiness assessments and SOC 1, SOC 2, and SOC 3 examinations; SOC attest services are delivered by the licensed CPA firm.
- **ISO certifications** — Independent certification of management systems, including information security, privacy, AI, business continuity, and other disciplines.
- **FedRAMP and federal assessments** — Independent cloud security assessments supporting federal authorization, plus CMMC and other government-related assessment services.
- **Payment card assessments** — PCI DSS validation and assessments for payment software, encryption, PIN security, and related payment environments.
- **Healthcare assessments** — HITRUST assessments and HIPAA-related security and privacy assessment services.
- **Penetration testing** — Application, network, cloud, mobile, social engineering, physical, hardware, and advanced adversarial testing.
- **Privacy assessments** — Assessments addressing domestic and international data protection requirements and cross-border privacy programs.
- **ISO 42001 certification** — Certification of an AI management system; Schellman announced its first-in-market ANAB accreditation in September 2024.
- **AI governance and AIUC-1 services** — AI governance assessments, AI management system certification, and independent validation against AIUC-1 requirements.

## Achievements

- Founded as a two-person SAS 70 examination practice in 2002.
- First ANAB-accredited ISO 42001 certification body, announced September 24, 2024.
- Certified B Corporation since June 2024; B Lab lists a score of 82.5.
- Reported reaching 200 assessed cloud service offerings on the FedRAMP Marketplace on April 30, 2026.
- Website reports more than 2,000 SOC reports each year.

## Latest updates

- **2026-03** — Announced a strategic investment from Goldman Sachs Alternatives; Lightyear Capital was to remain a minority investor. Financial terms were not disclosed in the announcement.
- **2026-04** — Announced reaching 200 FedRAMP-assessed cloud service offerings.
- **2026-09** — CEO Avani Desai wrote about independent AI assurance, citing Schellman research in which 74% believed they could pass an AI compliance audit while 27% described their governance as mature.

## Links

- Website: https://www.schellman.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/schellman
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/schellman
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@schellman
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/schellman
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/schellman

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Last updated: 2026-10-21