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At CEO (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 New York based CEO’ operating in the Compliance space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Isaac Oates
Founder & CEO of Justworks
Isaac is the Founder & CEO of Justworks. Prior to founding Justworks, Isaac worked at Etsy where he designed, built and launched the company’s payment processing platform. Isaac came to Etsy through the acquisition of Adtuitive, a contextual advertising startup which he co-founded. He has held product management and software development positions at Amazon.com, Yahoo!, NCSA and Lucent Technologies. In addition, he served as an intelligence officer in the National Guard and Army Reserve. Isaac holds an MBA from Cornell University and a BS in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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About Justworks: Justworks provides small and medium-sized businesses with simple software and expert support for payroll, benefits, HR, and compliance.
Junaid Wahedna
Chief Executive Officer of Wahed Invest
Junaid is the CEO and founder of Wahed Invest inc. He has a Graduate degree from the department of Industrial Engineering & Operations Research from Columbia University. While at Columbia, he served as the Managing Editor of the prestigious academic publication,The Columbia Financial Review. Junaid is the holder of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA), and CIMA Diploma in Islamic Finance (CDIF) designations. He has also been a speaker at international conferences on Islamic Finance.
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About Wahed Invest: Wahed is the first automated Shari’ah compliant investment platform in the world.
Cillian Kieran
Founder & CEO of Ethyca
Cillian Kieran is the Founder and CEO at Ethyca. Prior to joining Ethyca, he was a Founder & CEO of CKSK. Cillian is originally a Physics & Computer Science student who dropped out to work in the early 2000’s web application industry in data analysis and visualization tools.
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About Ethyca: Ethyca is a developer-first company that provides tools to make trust, respect and privacy a native feature of any data-driven system.
Ben Barokas
CEO & Founder of Sourcepoint
Prior to founding AdMeld, Mr. Barokas was Vice President of Advertising for JumpTV. He also spent 6 years at AOL in a variety of online advertising leadership positions including senior manager on the team that developed and launched the AOL video platform. Mr. Barokas served on the IAB’s Broadband Committee.
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About Sourcepoint: Sourcepoint is the data privacy software company for the digital marketing ecosystem.
Yasir Ali
Founder, CEO of Polymer
Yasir Ali is the Founder and CEO at Polymer.
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About Polymer: No-Code Data Loss Prevention for SaaS Platforms
Stuart Jones, Jr.
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Sigma Ratings
Stuart is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Sigma Ratings, Inc. Before founding Sigma Ratings, Stuart served as a senior U.S. Treasury official, including extended leadership tours in Afghanistan and the Middle East. For his service at home and abroad, he received the Secretary’s Honor Award and the Treasury Department’s Meritorious Service Award. After his government service, Stuart worked as an executive with Ernst & Young, one of the world’s largest audit and advisory firms, where he led business and strategic growth in select emerging markets for the forensic business. Stuart is a graduate of MIT, St. Andrews and the The American University. He is a frequent speaker and sought after commentator on financial and national security matters.
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About Sigma Ratings: Sigma Ratings is an AI-powered non-credit rating agency focused on quantifying company-level non-credit risks.
Apoorv Agarwal
Co-founder & CEO of Text IQ
An expert in Machine Learning and Natural Language Processing, Apoorv is dedicated to understanding and improving how humans and machines benefit from working together. In 2014, he was awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation’s Innovation Corps program, which allowed him to lay the foundation for Text IQ.Prior to Text IQ, Apoorv received the IBM Ph.D. Fellowship award in recognition of his work as first author on two separate patents for IBM’s Watson. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Computer Science from Columbia University, and received the Andrew P. Kosoresow Memorial Award for Outstanding Performance in teaching. Apoorv has published more than 30 academic papers in ML and NLP. His work, which focuses on sentiment analysis, relation extraction, text summarization, and automated Q&A, has received more than 1000 citations across the international research community. Beyond academia, Apoorv has been cited by American Banker, WIRED, Popular Science, New Scientist, and Science Magazine, among others. With Text IQ, he aspires to harness and channel the complementary strengths of humans and machines towards solving high-stakes enterprise data problems.
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About Text IQ: Text IQ is a B2B SaaS company deploying AI to uncover and contextualize sensitive data across privacy, security, legal, and compliance.
Thomas Laughlin
Founder & CEO of AMAGI
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About AMAGI: AMAGI builds software and communities that connect humans with the best parts of data and technology.
Ariel Tiger
Chief Executive Officer of EverC
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About EverC: EverC provides cyber intelligence tools that detect and prevent money laundering through online transactions.
Yogesh Pandit
CEO & Founder of HEXANIKA
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About HEXANIKA, TiE: HEXANIKA products reduce costs by delivering useable data and robust regulatory reporting at the speed of now
Max Galka
Co-Founder and CEO of Elementus
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About Elementus, Metrocosm: Elementus offers a analytics platform that brings cognition to the blockchain’s native transparency.
Ray Downes
Chief Executive Officer of FileCloud
Ray Downes is the Chief Executive Officer at FileCloud.
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About FileCloud: Hyper-Secure Content Collaboration. Simplified.
Peter Bals
CEO & Founder of Gluetech
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About Gluetech: Fintech startup with a horizontal software platform for automating real-time data traceability
Mary Kopczynski
CEO & Founder of 8OF9
Mary Kopczynski, 8of9’s fearless leader, is recognized as one of the leading financial regulatory crisis gurus, having advised some of the world’s largest global investment banks in regulatory change management. Being the eighth of nine children, all Mary has ever known is the ability to make sense of chaos in a perpetual chaotic system.
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About 8OF9, RegAlytics: 8OF9 is a RegTech company that translates complex financial regulation into simple solutions.
Ron D’vari
Executive Chairman, Chief Investment Officer, Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of NewOak
Ron D’Vari is NewOak’s Chairman, Chief Investment Officer & Co-Founder. He is responsible for advising NewOak clients in matters throughout the structured products and fixed-income asset lifecycle. In this role, Mr. D’Vari leads the analyses concerning portfolio construction, structuring, securitization, reps and warrants, portfolio management, valuation, credit and market risks and trading management. Mr. D’Vari is a member of NewOak’s executive committee. Prior to co-founding NewOak in 2008, Mr. D’Vari served as head of structured finance at BlackRock, where he co-managed $90 billion in fixed-income assets. At Blackrock, he developed the reality-based loan-level approach to valuation of structured securities transactions, was instrumental in establishing BlackRock Mortgage Investors and setting up the BlackRock distressed mortgage fund, PennyMAC. Prior to this, Mr. D’Vari worked at State Street Research for 12 years, ultimately heading the MBS/ABS/CMBS Portfolio Management and Trading team. He was one of three members of the firm’s Bond Policy Committee that managed $27 billion of fixed-income assets, and he established and led State Street’s collateralized debt obligation business and quantitative research team.
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About Black Tulip Asset Management, Boston University, FuturePay, NewOak, OrbisPay, PRMIA – Professional Risk Managers’ International Association, Tufts University: NewOak is a financial services advisory firm based in New York.
Alex Baydin
Founder & CEO of PerformLine
Alex Baydin is a seasoned executive and a recognized leader in the compliance and digital media industries. Alex founded PerformLine as he saw the growing need for compliance and verification in the marketing space. Using his deep experience in media and compliance, he developed the PerformMatch™ SaaS platform to bring automation and scale to companies looking to mitigate risk and ensure brand safety. PerformMatch empowers marketers with a comprehensive marketing oversight solution for multiple channels within a single platform. By monitoring contact centers and the web, the platform ensures regulatory, brand and TCPA compliance. Prior to founding PerformLine, Alex held the position of Vice President and General Manager of Verticals at Epic Advertising, a leading performance-based affiliate network. At Epic, Alex was responsible for setting and driving lead acquisition, sales strategy and revenue in over 13 lead vertical markets. Previously, Alex was Vice President of Business Development at Quigo Technologies, a leading contextual CPC and search engine marketing firm. Alex held two positions at Quigo, first running the SEM sales team, and secondly, leading partnership efforts to negotiate exclusive relationships with top tier publishers for Quigo’s AdSonar private label contextual network. Prior to Quigo, Alex served at United Online (NASD:UNTD) as a Senior Director of Business Development.
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About PerformLine: PerformLine is a RegTech for compliance leaders that provides the monitoring and data to help their organization grow safely.
