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What Michael Berman Saw in the Fine Print
A banking lawyer built Ncontracts around the risks hiding in vendor agreements. Seventeen years later, Michael Berman is asking what happens when the vendor starts thinking for itself.
SailPoint and the keys nobody takes back
A supermarket needed 138,000 new digital identities. SailPoint helps enterprises decide who gets access - and when that access should disappear.
CIAL Dun & Bradstreet makes the wait visible
A steelmaker waited up to 25 days for credit information. CIAL’s answer reveals why better business decisions depend on what happens between the data and the yes.
LogRhythm SIEM makes the noise make sense
A security veteran and a physicist built a business around the clues computers leave behind. Inside Exabeam, LogRhythm is still betting that better investigations begin with control of your own data.
Ashley Walsh, Between the Rulebook and the Team Sheet
Ashley Walsh’s route to leading BGC Group in Australia and New Zealand runs through law, compliance and Asian markets. His place on the Family of League board adds another connection: the game his own family plays.
AlgoSec makes the rules make sense
Every application needs permission to talk. AlgoSec helps large organizations understand those conversations, clean up the rules, and change them without stopping the business.
Schellman makes trust show its work.
A customer wants proof. Another wants different proof. Schellman built a business around making those demands fit together - without letting the evidence off the hook.
Casepoint puts the evidence in one place.
The expensive part of discovery can be the distance between systems. Casepoint is building a business around closing that gap, from corporate litigation to government records requests.
ISN makes the paperwork count
Before a contractor can get to work, someone has to check the evidence. ISN turned that everyday bottleneck into a network connecting 900 hiring clients with 90,000 contractors and suppliers.
NEOGOV and the art of getting government hired
A public health agency reported cutting its hiring time from 130 days to 61. NEOGOV’s story lives in the paperwork, handoffs, and human habits behind those missing 69 days.
Vitu makes the paperwork move
A car can cross the country before its title clears a desk. Vitu is building the connections that help ownership catch up.
Formidium makes the back office the main event
A fund can trade in milliseconds and still spend weeks chasing its own paperwork. Formidium is building the machinery that connects those two clocks.
DCM Services and the accounts nobody counted
A debt can disappear from a dashboard long before it disappears from an estate. DCM Services built a business around finding the difference.
M-Files Asia Pacific: Give every document a job.
A ship’s safety manual and a financial adviser’s client file have something in common: the wrong version can cause real trouble. M-Files gives documents context, rules, and somewhere useful to go.
Zix made the safe thing the easy thing.
An encrypted email is only useful if someone can open it. Zix built a business around that small inconvenience, then spent $275 million to reach the people who run the inbox.
Joe Robinson and the art of getting people together
Before he co-founded Hummingbird, Joe Robinson brought designers and technologists into the same room. His work in financial-crime investigations keeps returning to a familiar problem: helping people, information, and tools work together.
David Merriby and the bank still in the future tense
After a career in law, compliance and risk, David Merriby has been appointed CEO of the future KOHO Bank. His next assignment puts the rules of banking at the centre of building one.
Moxie gives the solo medspa a bigger back office
A good injector can still be a bewildered business owner. Moxie bundles software, coaching and collective buying power to help independent aesthetic practices keep their independence.
Credant made security invisible. Then encryption became ordinary.
Credant built a business around protecting data without interrupting the people using it. Its journey into Dell reveals both the value of removing friction and the danger of selling a feature that becomes standard.
Wazuh makes security free. The work still costs.
An open-source security platform lets teams see more without buying another software licence. Its customers reveal where the savings begin, and where the real work moves.
Parasoft and the Art of Not Waiting
A bank loses five days a month waiting to test its software. Parasoft’s answer is to build a convincing substitute for the system everyone is waiting for - and get on with the work.
Ethos Group and the Art of the Handoff
A car sale travels through more hands than the keys do. Ethos Group has built a business around making those handoffs work - from the first sales conversation to the repair visit years later.
Sentry Data and the $400 million paper trail
A hospital can dispense the right drug and still buy its replacement on the wrong terms. Sentry Data built a business connecting those two moments - and Craneware paid $400 million to bring it inside.
The Trading Floor Lost Its Turret. It Kept Its Voice.
For decades, a trader’s voice was tied to a desk full of buttons and private wires. Cloud9 turned that desk into software, then made the conversation searchable.
Callvu and the call that became a form
A ringing phone used to mean a queue. Callvu turns routine calls into short digital tasks - and now wants to make sure AI can finish the complicated ones without skipping the rules.
The Free HR Software That Had to Learn the Price of Trust
Zenefits made HR software free and collected when customers bought insurance. Then insurance law caught up with the growth story. Inside TriNet, its software now anchors a very different bargain for small businesses.
The Bank Account That Comes With an Armored Car
Cannabis businesses can sell a legal product and still struggle to deposit the proceeds. Dama Financial built a business around the awkward trip from a dispensary safe to a bank account - and LeafLink bought that machinery.
Jay Springman Built a Career Where Marketing Has to Pass the Fine Print
A law-school education, P&L discipline and three unusually compatible titles reveal an executive career built at the junction of persuasion, protection and proof.
CompassMSP Wants to Be the Only IT Number You Need
A string of acquisitions has given CompassMSP national reach. Its pitch to businesses is more personal: fewer technology handoffs, stronger security, and someone who understands what an outage costs.
ECA puts a price on working abroad
A foreign posting starts with an offer. ECA handles the arithmetic behind it - and the growing tangle of pay, policy and compliance that follows people across borders.