Jad Boutros is the co-founder and CEO of TerraTrue, a San Francisco privacy-and-security automation company he started in 2018 with former Snap general counsel Chris Handman. Before building software to make privacy reviews painless, Boutros spent nine years on Google's information security team leading security for its social products, then became Snap's first Chief Security Officer, where he and Handman ran thousands of privacy reviews a year out of a Google spreadsheet that ballooned past 100 tabs. TerraTrue is the product that spreadsheet should have been: a single source of truth that bakes privacy-by-design into the software development lifecycle.
Transcend is the compliance layer for customer data. Founded by two Harvard students who couldn't get their own data back from the apps they used, the company builds privacy and AI-governance infrastructure that automates data mapping, data subject requests, consent management, and oversight of data flowing in and out of large language models. Its software powers modern data rights for more than 1.2 billion people across Fortune 100 brands and category leaders.
Ben Brook is the co-founder and CEO of Transcend, the data-privacy infrastructure company he started in 2017 with Harvard classmate Mike Farrell. He flew to San Francisco the day after graduation to build software that lets the world's largest companies find, delete, and control personal data at machine speed. Under his lead Transcend has delivered actionable data rights to over a billion people and raised nearly $90M, including a $40M Series B in 2024. A Toronto-born, award-winning filmmaker turned privacy engineer, Brook argues that privacy only works when it is encoded directly into the systems that touch personal data.
Aayush Ghosh Choudhury is the Co-Founder and CEO of Scrut Automation, a SaaS-based GRC platform that automates compliance and risk management for mid-market and enterprise companies. A former McKinsey consultant and IIT Ropar / ISB graduate, he co-built Scrut after experiencing firsthand how compliance bottlenecks stall enterprise sales - discovering the solution while trying to sell a different product entirely. Under his leadership, Scrut has grown to 800+ customers globally, raised $20.5M from Lightspeed, MassMutual Ventures, and Endiya Partners, earned a LinkedIn Top 20 Startup 2024 ranking, and been recognized by G2 as a fastest-growing and highest-satisfaction product in security compliance.
Balaji Ganesan is Co-Founder and CEO of Privacera (now Trust3 AI), the data security and AI governance platform built on top of Apache Ranger technology he co-created. A survivor of the Miracle on the Hudson, he co-founded XA Secure in 2013, which was acquired by Hortonworks and open-sourced as Apache Ranger — now deployed across thousands of enterprises globally. He launched Privacera in 2016 to extend that governance vision to multi-cloud environments, raised $67.3M in total funding, and counts Nike, Intuit, and Autodesk among his customers.
Privacera (now operating as Trust3 AI by Privacera) is a Newark, California-based enterprise software company that runs a unified data and AI access governance platform. Built by the co-creators of Apache Ranger, it gives Fortune 500 teams a single place to discover sensitive data, set policies, and enforce access across Snowflake, Databricks, AWS, Azure, GCP, and the new generation of LLM-powered apps.
Scrut Automation is a security-first GRC (governance, risk, and compliance) platform that helps cloud-native companies automate evidence collection, manage risk, and stay continuously audit-ready across 60+ frameworks like SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR.
Mark Godley is the CEO of LeadGenius, a Berkeley-based B2B data intelligence platform that combines AI with human computation to deliver precision contact data for enterprise go-to-market teams. A self-described C-suite startup junkie with 30 years of SaaS expertise, Godley joined LeadGenius in 2017 — first as President, then stepping into the CEO role — and has driven the company's pivot from a service-heavy model to a scalable SaaS platform serving 400+ enterprise customers across 42 countries including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, IBM, and Autodesk. Under his leadership, LeadGenius has distinguished itself as the first crowdsourcing company to set a minimum wage tied to the cost of living in each country of operation, building a global decentralized workforce of data researchers while remaining GDPR and CCPA compliant.