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At CTO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United States based CTO’ operating in the Compliance space. If you think a CTO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Marshall Jones
Co-Founder & CTO of Very Good Security
Marshall Jones is a co-founder and CTO of Very Good Security. He is a seasoned engineer who has built countless products in FinTech industry. Formerly VP Engineering at Balanced Payments, a payment system for the marketplaces, Marshall knows all ins and outs of setting up engineering processes from ground-up, building a scalable product infrastructure, and growing effective engineering teams. Originally from New Zealand, Marshall lived in Singapore and moved to the USA in 2012. He is an engineering focussed manager with extraordinary technical skills: Marshall codes, liaises between engineers and business and, most importantly, builds product architecture and infrastructure.
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About Very Good Security: Very Good Security is a fintech & data security enablement platform helping to maximize the value of data without compliance & breach risk.
Clarence Chio
President, CTO, Co-Founder of Unit21
CTO and Co-Founder of Unit 21 and a Lecturer in UC Berkeley’s School of Information.
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About O’Reilly, Unit21, University of California Berkeley: Unit21 provides a customizable, no-code platform for risk & compliance operations teams to fight fraud, money laundering & financial crimes.
Renaud Deraison
Chief Technology Officer, co-founder of Tenable
Renaud Deraison is known in the global security community as the father of the Nessus® vulnerability scanner. His original creation, Nessus, celebrated its 15th anniversary in 2013 and is considered the de facto standard for vulnerability scanning worldwide. Renaud co-founded Tenable Network Security in 2002. As Chief Product Officer, he drives product strategy and development. Before Tenable, Renaud was the primary author of the Nessus vulnerability scanner – releasing the first version of Nessus when he was 17. He worked for SolSoft and founded his own computing security consulting company, Nessus Consulting S.A.R.L. Renaud continues to contribute to the global security community; he is author of three patents related to network scanning and security, and has published his work in books and magazines. He is a member of the editorial board for the Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures Organization. In 2013, he received the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for defense and security, together with Ron Gula and Jack Huffard.
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About Tenable: Tenable helps organizations to understand and reduce their cybersecurity risk across the full range of modern computing assets.
Jenn Knight
Co-Founder & CTO of AgentSync
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About AgentSync: AgentSync is a Producer Management Platform used for broker onboarding, licensing, and compliance requirements.
Charles Yeh
Co-Founder & CTO of Persona
Charles Yeh is a Co-Founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Persona.
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About Persona: Persona is an identity platform that helps business verify customer identities that brings trust to online interactions.
Bejoy John
Co-Founder and CTO of Vetty
Bejoy is the co-founder and CTO at Vetty. At Vetty Bejoy is in charge of building a scalable in-house background check platform and led the effort to get various accreditation such as SOC 2 and PBSA.
Prior to co-founding Vetty, Bejoy worked at Bloomberg, NYSE, and Goldman Sachs in various roles and capacities.
He has an MBA from the Columbia Business School at Columbia University in the city of New York and he completed his master’s in Computer engineering from Syracuse University NY. Originally from India where he completed his bachelor’s from College of Engineering, Trivandrum, Kerala.
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About Vetty: At Vetty we are hyper-focused on building products that enable businesses and jobseekers to regain control over their recruiting experience, Vetty is a Candidate Centric Background Screening & Recruiting Marketplace.
Our international identity, background screening, and verification platform helps HR teams improve hiring speed, decrease remote-hiring risk, and unlock the potential of applicants.
On the job seeker side, we are giving candidates unprecedented access to their background information, and help them build the skills most important to today’s labor market. We believe focusing on candidate-centric solutions and helping organizations recruit are two crucial steps toward improving today’s labor market as we know it.
Daniel Marashlian
Co-Founder & CTO of Drata
Daniel has specialized his career in leading & creating the technology for successful startups and enterprises. Currently, Daniel is the Co-Founder & CTO at [Drata](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/drata). Before that, Daniel was the Co-Founder & CTO of [Portfolium](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/portfolium), a student success platform. Prior, Daniel joined up with the Co-Founders of [TweetPhoto](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tweetphoto)/[Plixi](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/plixi) to start [RapidEngage](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/rapidengage). He was part of the acquisition of [Plixi](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/plixi) to [Lockerz](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/lockerz). Former CTO and creator of [TweetPhoto](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/tweetphoto)/[Plixi](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/plixi) which supported a giant piece of the photo sharing ecosystem on [Twitter](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/twitter). He also was the Co-Founder & CTO of [Pelotonics](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/pelotonics), a simple online project management system.
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About Drata: Drata is a compliance and security platform that automates the compliance workflow on a company’s security controls.
Blake Brannon
CTO of OneTrust
As Vice President of Product, Blake Brannon oversees all aspects of OneTrust’s product and is responsible for defining the privacy management software market and OneTrust’s product capabilities. Brannon evaluates industry trends and analyst research, while driving product planning, design, customer advisory testing and product launch activities. Prior to OneTrust, Brannon was one of the first employees at AirWatch, where he served as Global Director of Sales Engineering and Vice President of Product Marketing.
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About OneTrust: OneTrust helps companies manage privacy, security, and governance requirements in a regulatory environment that constantly changes.
Don Bosco Durai
Cofounder, CTO and Chief Security Architect of Privacera
Bosco is a seasoned entrepreneur and a thought leader in enterprise security. Bosco built one of the first real-time user and entity behavioral based fraud detection product and his company Bharosa was acquired by Oracle. After his stunt in Oracle, Bosco’s founded XA Secure, which reinvented security at scale for Big Data paradigm. After XA Secure’s acquisition by Open Source focussed Hortonworks, Inc. XA Secure product was donated to Apache Software Foundation and now it is called Apache Ranger. Bosco is still an active member of the open source community. Bosco through his current startup, Privacera, is trying to tackle the new challenges caused by data explosion and liberal sharing of sensitive data within enterprises. Privacera approach is data centric, which “follows the data” and protects them from malicious users and accidental data policy violations. In the process, Privacera is also bridging the chasm between the security team, data owners, and compliance officers to provide a more effective and frictionless end-to-end security for sensitive and personal data.
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About Privacera: Privacera is a SaaS-based data security and governance platform that offers data sharing without compromising regulatory compliance.
Rick Harrison
Co-Founder / CTO of Meadow
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About Meadow: Meadow builds connected cannabis retail, delivery, eCommerce, CRM, and marketing software for California’s legal cannabis industry.
Praveen Jain
CTO of Cavirin Systems
Praveen Jain is a seasoned executive bringing to Cavirin over 25 years of engineering leadership in innovation, strategy, and execution of products in Data Centers and Cloud businesses. He was the co-founder of several successful startups including Insieme Networks, which was acquired by Cisco for $863 million. While at Cisco, Praveen, as a Senior Vice President, led the engineering team in developing a massively scalable and revolutionary SDN product, the Cisco Application Centric Infrastructure (ACI), helping customers build hybrid cloud (IaaS) solutions. ACI is now deployed in enterprise datacenters worldwide, generating revenues in the billions. Prior to Insieme Networks, Praveen also led UCS server engineering at start-up Nuova Systems, while prior to Nuova Systems, he was a Director of Engineering at Andiamo Systems, also acquired by Cisco. Praveen has secured 10+ patents in the areas of networking, automated policies, and data center infrastructure. He holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Computer Science from Delhi Institute of Technology.
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About Cavirin Systems: Cavirin is the company providing cybersecurity risk posture – CyberPosture – and compliance for the enterprise hybrid cloud.
Pavan Bayyapu
CTO, Co-Founder of Regology
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About Regology: Regology is curating the world’s regulations to help businesses with compliance.
Dan Campbell
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer of LogicGate
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About LogicGate: LogicGate builds technology that allows businesses to automate and track disorganized processes in risk and compliance.
Shannon Holland
CTO of CipherTrace
Shannon Holland is a founder and CTO of CipherTrace where he leads research and development of CipherTrace’s advanced cryptocurrency forensics tools. He has 20 years of experience in developing secure and scalable computer technology. He is a distinguished software engineer with a broad range of experience, ranging from low-level software and hardware design to large-scale application servers. Additionally, He was an early bitcoin miner. Prior to CipherTrace Senior, He was the Lead Threat Intelligence Engineer at Marble Security where he led the R&D of mobile app threat intelligence and analyzed over 2 million IOS and Android apps across various marketplaces. He also led the research and development of the IronKey security devices, including their cryptography, key management, firmware and hardware design. Shannon is the co-inventor of numerous security and cryptography patents, and produced the first certified tamper-proof, FIPS 140-2 Level 3 mobile device.
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About CipherTrace: CipherTrace is a cryptocurrency intelligence company that delivers delivers cryptocurrency AML compliance solutions.
Kevin Suh
Co-Founder & CTO of Finley Technologies
Kevin Suh is a Co-founder and CTO at Finley.
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About Finley Technologies: Finley is a YC- and Bain Capital Ventures-backed company that helps companies streamline debt capital raise and management.
Josh Groves
Chief Technology Officer of Smarter Sorting
Josh Groves is the chief technology officer of Smarter Sorting.
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About Smarter Sorting: Smarter Sorting helps companies know more about consumer products to make, market and move them better.
Atulya Risal
CTO & EVP of ComplianceQuest
Atulya Risal serves as the Chief Technology Officer at ComplianceQuest.
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About ComplianceQuest: ComplianceQuest is a cloud-based Enterprise Quality and Safety Management System (QHSE) native on Salesforce.
Scott Hertel
Founding CTO of Osano
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About Osano: Osano is a provider of a data privacy compliance suite that aids businesses in complying with privacy regulations such as GDPR and CCPA.
Emon Haider
Co-Founder & CTO of TargetDocs
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About TargetDocs: The communication workspace that connects general contractors to their vendors in one place.
Robert Bunch
Co-founder & CTO of Knightley
Rob has a bachelors in CS, a masters in Divinity, and grew up in Iowa before living in Chicago, NYC, and finally Atlanta. He has 12+ years of development experience and most recently worked on the NCAA.com playoff bracket for Turner Sports. Rob is a published author whose prose is rumored to be as beautiful as his code.
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About Knightley: Wallstreet Bets for Crypto and Startups
Artem Pasyechnyk
Co-founder/CTO of Canix
CTO/Co-Founder @ Canix. Engineer & Manager @ Facebook (Internet.org, Mobile Financial Services). Realtime Systems Engineer at PagerDuty. Waterloo SE ’14
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About Canix: Canix builds ERP software for cannabis companies
Anthony Surace
Co-Founder and CTO of Main Street Exchange Corporation
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About Main Street Exchange Corporation: MSE is the world’s first automated deal closing and securities compliance platform making the old way of fundraising laughable.
Vikram Kapoor
Founder & CTO of Lacework
Vikram Kapoor is Founder and CTO @ Lacework. Prior to founding Lacework, he was Senior Director of Engineering at Bromium. At Bromium, he was responsible for managing the engineering team as well as creating and driving strategies in alignment with Bromium’s vision and business goals. Prior to joining Bromium, he managed the Database Storage Engine group within Oracle RDBMS. He was lead architect for several key Exadata technologies such as Exadata Hybrid Columnar Compression. He was also Development Manager for the protocols group at Oracle where he designed and implemented major components of the NFSv4 server and led the team responsible for protocol development. He has held senior engineering roles at Pillar Data Systems and Valicert. He is a prolific inventor who holds several patents.
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About Lacework: Lacework is a cloud security services provider that automates cloud security at scale so customers can innovate with speed and safety.
Keshav Kamble
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Avocado Systems
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About Avocado Systems: Next-generation Agentless Application Security & Monitoring for Enterprise
Michael Flickman
Executive Vice President & Chief Technology Officer of Diligent
Michael Flickman serves as CTO for Diligent Corporation, heading up all global software development and testing, infrastructure and product management. Michael has worked in the technology field for nearly 30 years, specializing in commercial software development, infrastructure architecture and management, enterprise software, product management, development process improvement and project management. Prior to joining Diligent, Michael held executive management positions in companies such as Survey Sampling International, CYA Technologies and Concentrex (formerly MECA Software). Michael also held senior engineering positions at Apple Computer and Data General.
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About Diligent: Diligent is the largest GRC SaaS provider, with 1M users, across 23,000 organizations, valued at $7B+ and $500 million+ in revenue.
Madhan Kanagavel
Founder, President & CTO of FileCloud
Madhan drives CodeLathe’s overall strategy and execution. Over the last 15 years, prior to founding CodeLathe, Madhan has worked on diverse systems and technology, including building highly scalable MMORPG game server technology, high speed real-time video acquisition systems, digital video engagement solutions, and Artificial Intelligence (A.I.). As an open source enthusiast, he developed the open source Money Manager Ex personal finance software. Madhan holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering from Boston University.
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About FileCloud: Hyper-Secure Content Collaboration. Simplified.
Dmitry Grinberg
CTO of Funding Wonder, Inc.
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About Funding Wonder, Inc.: Funding Wonder, Inc. is a holding company that has aggregated investments in FinTech ventures.
Dmitry Grinberg
CTO of Funding Wonder, Inc.
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About Funding Wonder, Inc.: Funding Wonder, Inc. is a holding company that has aggregated investments in FinTech ventures.
Serge Egelman
CTO / Co-Founder of AppCensus
Serge Egelman is the CTO at AppCensus.
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About AppCensus, The International Computer Science Institute (ICSI): Privacy Analysis as a Service. At Scale.
Matt Ferrari
CTO & Co-founder of ClearDATA
Matt Ferrari is a skilled technology veteran with more than a decade of success delivering managed hosting and secure cloud-based computing to companies around the world. As Chief Technology Officer (CTO), he is responsible for the strategy and execution of ClearDATA’s healthcare technology platform and services. In this role, he oversees Engineering, Product Management, and back- office systems. Matt’s HIPAA and HITECH expertise, combined with his extensive understanding of Cloud Storage and Disaster Recovery, make him uniquely qualified to build healthcare storage environments for organizations that require a high degree of scalability, data security, and regulatory compliance. Prior to ClearDATA, Matt was the Chief Technology Officer at HOSTING.COM. He architected and built the company’s fast-growing line of managed cloud products and services at HOSTING.COM for over a decade, focusing largely on driving automation and cloud product innovation. A sought-after keynote speaker, Matt has presented at events such as AWS Re:invent, EMCWorld, VMWorld, Consumer Electronics Show (CES), IT Expo, InterOp, and others. He joins top partners in panel discussions about cloud computing, and nurtures many strategic technology relationships.
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About ClearDATA: Building the world’s most innovative company designed to modernize and protect your healthcare data.
Hari Gopalakrishna
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Complia
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About Complia, STX: Complia is the only cannabis-specific patient/caregiver registration, business licensing, and employee credentialing technology solution.
Alex Pollitt
Co-founder & CTO of Tigera
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About Tigera: Active, zero-trust based security for cloud-native applications
Atul Mohidekar
CTO & SVP Operations/Engineering of Rfxcel
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About Rfxcel: Thought leader in traceability technology, rfxcel develops enterprise solutions to ensure customer success and secure their business.
Juan Rodriguez
CTO and Founder of Whistic
Juan Rodriguez is the CTO and founder at Whistic.
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About Whistic: Whistic enables users to conduct and respond to security reviews on a single platform to grow with their needs.
Travis Howerton
Co-Founder and CTO of C2 Labs
Travis Howerton is the co-founder and CTO of C2 Labs. In this role, he is responsible for the R&D division that develops innovative products and services that solve our customer’s most difficult challenges at the extreme end of complexity and scale. Prior to joining C2 Labs, Howerton served as the Global Director for Strategic Programs within Bechtel Corporation, supporting strategic IT programs at global scale across 27 countries with responsibility for Big Data programs, Digital Transformation initiatives, the IT Project Management Office, Enterprise Architecture, Strategic Suppliers and Knowledge Management. Prior to this role, Howerton was the Bechtel lead for the merger, cost savings, and transformation programs at Consolidated Nuclear Security (CNS) where he successfully completed a $33M ERP consolidation (on time and under budget) on SAP HANA and delivered over $313M in NNSA validated cost savings. He was also the line manager for the IT and cyber security programs within CNS. Prior to joining Bechtel, Howerton had a long and diverse career consisting of senior executive assignments throughout the Department of Energy (DOE). He served as the Deputy Director for the IT Services Division at Oak Ridge National Laboratory where he was the line manager for the CIO office and successfully delivered the RESolution system; winner of the ACT-IAC Award for Most Innovative Project in Government. Prior to joining ORNL, Howerton enjoyed a career in Federal service where he was named the National Nuclear Security Administration’s (NNSA) first CTO. Prior to his HQ role, he served as the Federal CIO for the Y-12 Site Office and had 7 years of experience as a software engineer in the private sector.
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About C2 Labs, RegScale: C2 Labs helps heavily regulated industries continuously comply with laws and regulations such as GDPR, NIST, CMMC, and CCPA.
ChihWei Chao
Co-Founder & CTO of Prismo Systems
ChihWei Chao is the Co-founder & CTO at Prismo Systems.
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About Prismo Systems: Prismo closes the gap between risk and response, protecting users, workloads, and applications from the datacenter to the cloud.
Rich Sutton
CTO & Co-Founder of Theta Lake
Rich brings over 15 years of Enterprise software and application development experience to Nexgate. Most recently, he led a 50+ person Engineering team building Websense’s web security product portfolio. Along with holding multiple patents, he has held senior management and technical positions at Symantec, 8e6 Technologies (now Trustwave), and eFunds (now Fidelity) building everything from SaaS applications to high-throughput network appliances, client security software and mobile applications. Rich is always looking to hire smart people who can get things done.
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About Theta Lake: Security and compliance for modern collaboration platforms, including Cisco Webex, Zoom, RingCentral, Microsoft Teams, Slack and more
Adam Larsen
CTO of Tethr
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About Tethr: Tethr operates as an AI-powered conversation intelligence platform.
Tom Saichek
CTO and Certified Level 1 Eloqua Consultant of 4Thought Marketing
I have over 20 years of expanded responsibility in Business Systems. I have been responsible for enterprise-wide project implementation as well as line level executive management. I have been at the forefront of marketing and sales automation and sales force productivity for over two decades. During that time, I have developed and successfully implemented a variety of customer and sales-centric systems designed to improve customer interaction and sales success. I bring a wealth of experience dealing on the business side of systems problems. I have been extremely successful bridging the gap between business needs and technical constraints. For the past 10 years I have been focused on the software industry, and have been involved on both the product development side as well as the enterprise implementation side of CRM initiatives.
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About 4Thought Marketing: 4Thought Marketing is an application development and privacy compliance services company founded in 2008.
Aaron Wilson
CTO and Co-Founder of ScaleSec
Aaron Wilson is the managing partner and founder at ScaleSec.
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About Amazon Web Services, ScaleSec: ScaleSec helps your company create or enhance your cloud security capabilities by diving deep, offering hands-on services.
Stan Tomlinson
CTO, Co Founder of Lock & Key Technology Group
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About Lock & Key Technology Group: We provide FinTech solutions for modern and emerging markets. Deep roots in compliance and liability mitigation.
