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Chris Pantaenius and the problem with a perfect plan
Chris Pantaenius helped start Onspring with a contract-management idea. Building a business around the ways people actually work took him somewhere more interesting.
Aayush Ghosh Choudhury and the business hidden in the paperwork
He set out to build procurement software. The work required to win an enterprise customer led him somewhere else: Scrut Automation, and a continuing argument for giving small teams access to security expertise.
Dan Campbell and the Architecture of Useful Friction
He helped turn three consultants' irritation with inflexible compliance software into a platform built to bend. A decade later, LogicGate's co-founder is still asking the architect's favorite question: what should remain changeable?
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.
Michael Schultz Has Spent 20 Years Teaching New Software Categories to Speak Enterprise
From PlaceWare and DocuSign to Bugcrowd, Nintex, Enlyft, and LogicGate, Schultz keeps arriving where useful technology still needs a language the enterprise can trust.
AJ Sarkar Asked Hundreds of Executives What Risk Looks Like. Then He Built the Dashboard.
The RiskOpsAI founder has spent years translating the anxious language of cyber risk into decisions a board can actually use. His latest bet is that AI governance must move as quickly as AI itself.
Meiran Galis Turned the Audit Pile Into a Company
He began with screenshots, logs and a weekend blog. Five years later, Scytale had become an acquirer - proof that even the dullest business problem can hide a lively company.
Justin Beals Turned the Worst Part of Enterprise Sales Into a Company
A theater graduate, programmer and repeat founder, Justin Beals built Strike Graph around a lesson learned the expensive way: when trust arrives late, deals die early.
Dan Zitting
Dan Zitting is the CEO of Nitrogen, the wealth management technology company formerly known as Riskalyze, best known for its Risk Number and advisor growth platform. Before wealthtech, he spent more than a decade building governance, risk and compliance software: he founded the cloud audit tool Workpapers.com, ran Galvanize (formerly ACL) as CEO and grew it to roughly $100M in ARR, and helped steer its roughly $1 billion sale to Diligent, where he served as Chief Product and Strategy Officer. He took the top job at Nitrogen in December 2023, focused on helping financial advisors reduce friction and grow through connected workflows and AI.
Jenna Wells
Jenna Wells is the Chief Executive Officer and a board member of Supply Wisdom, a real-time risk intelligence platform based in New York. A former U.S. Marine Corps signals intelligence officer and Purdue University graduate, she spent nearly two decades in intelligence and third-party risk management, including leadership roles at Wellington Management and Iron Mountain, before joining Supply Wisdom. She rose through the company from Head of Customer Experience to Head of Product to Chief Operating Officer, and was named CEO in June 2025 alongside a $14 million Series B funding round led by Jurassic Capital. Notably, she used the Supply Wisdom platform as a customer before joining the team that builds it.
Jerry Layden
Jerry Layden is the CEO of CyberSaint, a Boston-based cybersecurity software company that helps organizations measure, quantify, and report cyber risk in financial terms. He stepped into the top job in September 2021 after leading revenue as CRO, and before that spent 18 years at Dell EMC, most recently as Vice President of Global Accounts. Layden runs CyberSaint's CyberStrong platform, which uses AI and actuarial data to automate compliance work and translate cyber risk into language boards and executives understand.
Stas Bojoukha
Stas Bojoukha is the founder and CEO of Compyl, a New York-based governance, risk and compliance platform he built after years of running security programs himself as a CISO across financial services, real estate and energy. Compyl closed a $12 million Series A in June 2025 led by Venture Guides, bringing its total funding to $13.7 million, as the company doubles its customer base year over year and pushes into an AI-driven "Compliance Copilot."
Julie Iskow
Julie Iskow is the President and CEO of Workiva, the cloud platform behind a lot of the world's regulatory, ESG, and financial reporting. A Bay Area engineer who spent her first decade in robotics and automation, she scaled SaaS companies through IPOs and acquisitions before taking over from Workiva's founder in April 2023.
Aayush Ghosh Choudhury
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.
Jasvir Gill
Jasvir Gill is the Founder and CEO of AlertEnterprise, a Fremont-based enterprise SaaS platform that converges physical security, cybersecurity, and identity governance through AI. A serial entrepreneur who immigrated from Punjab in 1985, Gill previously founded Virsa Systems — a pioneer in governance, risk, and compliance software — which was acquired by SAP in 2006. He then built the SAP GRC business unit before leaving to found AlertEnterprise in 2007. Backed by Kleiner Perkins, the company has become an industry leader in cyber-physical security convergence, deploying AI-powered access control and identity management for critical infrastructure, utilities, and enterprise clients worldwide.
Michael Saracini
Michael Saracini is the CEO of Aravo Solutions, a San Francisco-based enterprise SaaS company he has led since 2011. With over two decades building profitable high-growth software businesses across CRM, HCM, and supply chain, Saracini has positioned Aravo as the category-defining platform for third-party risk management - managing 10.5 million suppliers and vendors across 177 countries for global enterprises in financial services, pharma, high-tech, and consumer goods. Under his leadership, Aravo has earned five consecutive Chartis Category Leader designations, won the 2025 TPRM Innovator Award, and built an AI-driven TPRM platform trusted by Fortune 500 companies navigating an era of regulatory complexity.
Venkat Bhat
Venkat Bhat is the CEO and founder of VentureSoft Global, an $80 million IT services and consulting firm headquartered in Pleasanton, California. Founded in 1996, VentureSoft has grown to serve over 300 clients - from startups to Fortune 500 companies including Tesla, Nike, Intuit, and Citigroup - across data & AI, cybersecurity, cloud, ERP/CRM, and managed services. With offices in North America, Dubai, and Bengaluru, Bhat has built a global delivery model that blends deep technical expertise with business transformation, and is now steering the company into the era of generative AI and enterprise AI platforms.