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Darin Ohlandt’s Long Route to Marketing the Rules
Before he marketed compliance software, Darin Ohlandt worked in consulting, satellites, online chat, language learning, legal information and analytics. The industries changed. His fascination with making marketing measurable did not.
Eric Clements Made a Career Out of Marketing the Rules
He started in sales, learned the grammar of compliance software, and spent more than a decade turning dense rules into an enterprise story people could act on.
Blaine Hatab Built the Ledger Behind Legal Cannabis
He started with a $30,000 check and a narrow sales tool. Then customers pulled Distru into the far messier business of making cannabis inventory, orders, and compliance agree.
Sreej Menon
Sreej Menon is the CEO of Transient.AI, a New York-based startup building an AI operating system for capital markets, unifying compliance, trading, and research workflows for hedge funds and RIAs. A former banking technologist with over a decade inside Credit Suisse's credit trading syndicate, he raised the company's Series A from NEXT Investors in May 2026 on the argument that AI in finance needs the same engineering rigor as the trading systems it plugs into.
Tyler Allen
Tyler Allen is the CEO of Unit21, the AI risk infrastructure company he helped build from the ground up as its founding software engineer in 2019. Starting by writing Unit21's earliest lines of code, he progressed through Head of AI and COO before being appointed CEO in April 2026, succeeding co-founder Trisha Kothari. Under his AI leadership, customer usage of Unit21's AI Agents grew 30x in a single quarter. Unit21's platform now handles over 200,000 monthly reviews, has detected $14 billion in suspicious activity, and files approximately 5% of all U.S. SARs submitted to FinCEN.