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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 San Francisco based CEO’ operating in the Risk Management 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.
Joshua Motta
Co-Founder & CEO of Coalition
Joshua Motta is the CEO and co-founder of Coalition.
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About Coalition: Coalition operates as a cyber insurance and security company that helps businesses manage and mitigate cyber risks.
Ivan Novikov
Founder & CEO of Wallarm
Ivan Novikov serves as an advisor at ElectroNeek.
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About Wallarm: End-to-end API Security for the Modern Teams
Trisha Kothari
CEO, Co-Founder of Unit21
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About Unit21: Unit21 provides a customizable, no-code platform for risk & compliance operations teams to fight fraud, money laundering & financial crimes.
Elias Manousos
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of RiskIQ
Elias is a recognized expert in Internet security and fraud prevention. He has been developing and delivering enterprise protection technologies for more than 15 years. As CEO of RiskIQ, he has spearheaded a new approach that helps Internet, financial services, healthcare, media and consumer packaged goods companies protect their brands from online fraud. Elias is also co-chair of the Online Trust Alliance (OTA) Anti-Malvertising Working Group and is responsible for Malvertisements.com, the first and only public database documenting malvertising incidents on a continuous basis. Prior to RiskIQ, Elias was VP of R&D at Securant Technologies (acquired by RSA), which pioneered identity and access management for web applications. At Securant, he was instrumental in creating now-commonplace technologies for single sign-on (SSO) security.
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About RiskIQ: RiskIQ is a security company that provides digital threat management solutions for software vendors.
Alex Senemar
CEO of Voxel
Experienced CEO and advisor working at the cutting edge of technology. Expertise in enterprise applications, healthcare, manufacturing, and AI.
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About Huma Therapeutics, Sherbit, Voxel: Voxel uses computer vision and AI to enable security cameras to automatically identify hazards and high-risk activities in real-time,.
Bill Clerico
CEO, Co-Founder of WePay
Bill drives the company’s vision, strategy, and growth. Before joining WePay, Bill worked in technology investment banking at Jefferies & Company, where he advised enterprise software, digital media, and financial technology companies on M&A and capital market transactions. Previously, he worked for the U.S. Army’s Communications Engineering Research Command and in electronic trading at Goldman Sachs.
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About WePay: WePay is an online payment service company that provides secure and comprehensive APIs designed for ISVs and SaaS providers.
Matt Miller
Founder & CEO of Embroker
Matt Miller is the founder and CEO of Embroker, the first modern solution for business insurance. Prior to founding Embroker, he was a Principal at the private equity firm Hellman & Friedman, where he led investments in the insurance and software space. While at H&F, he served on the board of directors of HUB International, Applied Systems, and Renaissance Learning. Prior to joining Hellman & Friedman, Matt was a Vice President for Bain Capital in Boston and Hong Kong and a consultant for Bain & Company in New York. Matt graduated summa cum laude from Duke University, and earned an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, where he was an Arjay Miller Scholar and co-president of the Private Equity club.
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About Embroker: Embroker helps growing businesses save time and find the best value on the right coverage.
David Fontain
Founder and CEO of Foresight Commercial Insurance
Founder and CEO at Foresight, the insurtech for mid-market workers compensation. At Foresight, we’re rewarding proactive insureds with lower premiums and rewarding brokers with higher commissions.
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About Foresight Commercial Insurance, Foresight Risk and Insurance Services: Foresight is the commercial insurtech that ties safe work practices to insurance savings.
Ray Kruck
Founder and CEO of Tugboat Logic
Ray Kruck cofounded Nexgate in 2011 with a breakthrough platform to help brands discover, monitor, and secure their social presence. Nexgate was acquired by Proofpoint (NASDAQ: PFPT) as their largest acquisition in 2014. Prior to Nexgate, Ray held executive and leadership positions in corporate development, strategy, and sales at Check Point Software, Websense, and Voltage Security (acquired by HP). Since Nexgate, Ray cofounded Pointgrey Partners, an early-stage venture investment firm focused on deep technology plays that drive competitive disruption in enterprise and life science markets. Ray is passionate about helping founders build go-to market ecosystems that enable leveraged sales models with strategic partners. Ray is a University of Toronto B.Comm graduate and holds an MBA from University of British Columbia.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), Tugboat Logic: Tugboat Logic address the skills and expertise gap in the security and compliance industry.
Vishaal Hariprasad
Chief Executive Officer of Resilience
Vishaal Hariprasad is a co-founder at Arceo.ai.
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About Resilience, Resilience: Resilience is a cyber insurance provider that offers organizations the tools, guidance, and solutions to insure and secure their data.
Elnor Rozenrot
CEO of Jasper
Most recently, Elnor was Co-Founder & CEO of Pingjam, a mobile advertising company focusing on app developers. Previously, Elnor served as VP, New Growth Platforms at LG Electronics (KRX: 066570) where he designed and launched a global business incubator aimed at launching strategically aligned ventures worldwide. Elnor served as Director at Innosight Ventures, Prof Clayton Christensen’s early stage VC fund. His focus was mostly on go-to-market and follow-on fundraising for the funds’ portfolio companies.
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About Jasper: Jasper, formerly CreditStacks, is a financial service company that offers a premium Mastercard® designed for professionals.
Ahmad Wani
Chief Executive Officer & Co Founder of One Concern
Ahmad Wani is an earthquake researcher by training. He was named by the Forbes magazine as one of the world’s top thirty innovators, in its Forbes 30 under 30 edition in January 2016. Earlier in his career, he performed structural design and risk analysis for power plants for the Central Government of India. Ahmad holds a graduate degree in Structural and Earthquake Engineering from Stanford University.
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About One Concern: One Concern provides a resilience-as-a-service solution that helps customers uncover, prepare for, and mitigate unpredictable disaster risk.
Kyle Mack
CEO and Co-founder of Middesk
Kyle Mack is a co-founder and CEO of Middesk. Most recently, Kyle is a director at Checkr and an executive in AnyPerk.
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About Middesk: A modern infrastructure to establish trust between every business.
Natalia Karayaneva
CEO & Co-Founder of Propy
Natalia Karayaneva has over 12 years of experience in real estate development. She has a Masters degree in Sustainable Urban Development form Oxford University and founded her first company at 19.
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About Propy: Propy is an end-to-end real estate transaction management platform that facilitates real estate transactions online.
Dean Stephens
Co-Founder & CEO of Talix
Dean Stephens is the Co-Founder & CEO at Talix.
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About Talix: Talix provides risk adjustment, quality and oncology solutions for value-based care.
Alain Meier
Co-Founder and CEO of Cognito
CEO at Cognito & Co-Founder at Bloom Protocol.
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About Bloom, Cognito: Cognito develops an identity verification and compliance platform for businesses.
Robin McIntosh
Co-Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Co-Founder of Workit Health
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About Workit Health: Workit Health is a virtual clinic dedicated to medically-assisted treatment and online therapy for substance use disorder.
Christy Wyatt
Chief Executive Officer of Absolute Software
Christy Wyatt is the chief executive officer of Absolute Software. She has held a variety of executive leadership roles at Dtex Systems, Good Technology (now Blackberry), Citigroup, Motorola, Apple, and Sun Microsystems. Christy has been named one of Inc. Magazine’s Top 50 Women Entrepreneurs of America, Information Security’s CEO of the Year, and one of the Fierce Wireless “Most Influential Women in Wireless.”
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About Absolute Software: Absolute Software creates endpoint resiliency solutions that enable organizations to secure their devices, data and users.
Karen White
Chief Executive Officer of RMS
She is the Chief Executive Officer at RMS.
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About RMS: RMS is the world’s largest risk analytics company providing predictive risk-models, risk-data, risk-analytics applications and APIs.
Bahman Mahbod
President & CEO of Dtex Systems
Bahman Mahbod is a SVP, Engineering & Security Research at FireEye.
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About Dtex Systems: Dtex Systems utilizes user behavior intelligence to help enterprises detect cybersecurity threats without compromising privacy.
Alastair Paterson
Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Digital Shadows
Alastair has worked in the IT industry for over ten years, having spent the majority of that time advising homeland security clients on risk assessment and information exploitation. Before founding Digital Shadows in 2011, Alastair was International Propositions Manager at BAE Systems Detica, working with clients in the Gulf, Europe and Australasia
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About Digital Shadows: Digital Shadows identifies unwanted exposure, protect against external threats, and minimize digital risk.
Bindiya Vakil
CEO & Founder of Resilinc
Bindiya Vakil is CEO and founder of Resilinc and is a recognized thought leader in the area of supply chain risk management. She has been a practitioner in high-tech supply chain management with companies including Flextronics, Cisco and Broadcom. Ms. Vakil has a master’s degree in supply chain management from MIT and an MBA in Finance. She is a published author and frequent speaker at top supply chain conferences and universities on the topic of supply chain resiliency. Ms. Vakil’s concept of “Design for Resiliency” is being widely adopted as a best practice in the industry. Ms. Vakil was named a Top Female Supply Chain Executive in 2013 by Supply & Demand Chain Executive.
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About Broadcom, Cisco, Resilinc, TiE Silicon Valley: Resilinc is the leading provider of supply chain resiliency solutions. Resilinc brings the power of resiliency by enabling supply chains to
Omer Cedar
Co-Founder & CEO of Omega Point
Omer is CEO and co-founder of Omega Point. Previously, Omer served as SVP, Research at Two Sigma Investments. In this role, he founded and built Two Sigma’s global equity research analyst survey platform (“TAP”). He was responsible for research/modeling, product development, and relationship management. He also managed Two Sigma’s quantitative risk arbitrage system, developed models, and conducted classic fundamental Risk Arb research. Omer holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
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About Omega Point: Omega Point is a developer of a platform that provides better insights and data-driven decisions to every investment manager.
Mark Dorn
President & CEO of DAVID Corporation
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About DAVID Corporation: DAVID Corporation has been providing software and services to commercial and alternative P&C insurance markets for more than 27 years.
Nader Mikhail
CEO of Elementum
Being the founder and CEO of Elementum is a tall order. Good thing Nader has over 15 years of experience building teams and companies. From starting his first venture in high school, to transforming Fortune 100 companies at McKinsey, to modernizing the supply chain at Flextronics, Nader is as motivated as they come. And now he’s on a mission to disrupt supply chain, which he believes is long overdue. When he’s not at work, he can be found…working somewhere else. But other than that, the BBQ loving CEO enjoys snowboarding, playing basketball, and swears that Braveheart is the best movie ever. Nader hails from Huntington Beach, California,and is a proud alumnus of UC Irvine and Stanford University.
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About Elementum: Elementum makes supply chain simple.
Moataz Rashad
Founder & CEO of DeepVu
Moataz is an AI/deep-learning entrepreneur. He’s currently the founder & CEO of DeepVu. Moataz was a PhD Student at Stanford’s Information Systems Lab, and dropped out in 1996. He earned an MS in Electrical Engineering from Stanford, MS in Computer Science from University of Oregon, and a BS with Distinction & Honors in Computer Science and Control Systems from Alexandria University. Moataz is a named inventor on 21 issued patents.
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About DeepVu: DeepVu is the autonomous supply chain planning solution for optimizing efficiencies, sustainability and margins for manufacturers
Paul Valente
CEO & Co-founder of VISO Trust
Paul Valente brings over 20 years of technology experience and more than 10 years of Information Security program design and management. His specialties include Security Architecture, Application Security, Information Security Risk Management and Third-Party Security Risk Management. Paul believes firmly in using innovation, automation, out-of-the-box thinking and data driven decisions to reinvent security. In 2016 Paul co-founded VISO Trust, the world’s first Rationalized Information Security Due Diligence platform.
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About VISO Trust: VISO Trust is a SaaS third-party cyber risk management for the modern enterprise.
Samir Shah
Chief Executive Officer of Aurionpro
Samir Shah is one of the pioneering members of Aurionpro’s management team, he has been a key driver of progressing Aurionpro’s vision of becoming one of the world’s most respected and innovative technology companies. Prior to his appointment as CEO, Samir had played a number of key roles in the organization, including establishing Aurionpro’s North America operations, driving and integrating a number of strategic acquisitions, launching operational streamlining initiatives and reorganizing the company globally in order to improve reach and sales effectiveness. Today, Samir leads the company from its North America headquarters in the Bay Area, CA and spearheads Aurionpro’s aggressive expansion plans, promotes a customer-first philosophy, and fosters a united and collaborative corporate culture. A respected expert across the banking and electronic payments industries. He holds an engineering degree in computer science and an MBA in finance. Samir has previously served on the boards of PaySimple and PriorityCommerce.
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About Aurionpro: Aurionpro is a global technology solutions leader that helps enterprises accelerate their digital innovation, securely and efficiently.
César Mariel
CEO & Founder of Iristrace
CEO, Surprisepreneur and co-founder of @iristrace , Mindvestor, @imaginecc Dreamer @sbcAmsterdam Alumni 2014. Proud father and husband #lean #checklist
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About Cadenalia, Iristrace: Mobile business controls, checklists and smart bots to simplify your processes, boost productivity and get the data to work for you.
Elizabeth Muller
Founder & CEO of Deep Isolation
Elizabeth is the co-founder and Executive Director of Berkeley Earth, CEO of Muller & Associates LLC, and the Managing Partner of Global Shale. Previously, she was Director at Gov3 (now CS Transform) and Executive Director of the Gov3 Foundation. From 2000 to 2005 she was a policy advisor at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Elizabeth has advised governments in over 30 countries, in both the developed and developing world. She has extensive experience with stakeholder engagement and communications, especially with regard to technical issues. She developed numerous techniques for bringing government and private actors together to build consensus and implement action plans, and has a proven ability to deliver sustainable change. She has also designed and implemented projects for public sector clients, helping them to build new policies and strategies for government reform and modernization, collaboration across government ministries and agencies, and strategies for the information society.
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About Deep Isolation: Innovative startup with an equitable and environmentally protective solution for nuclear waste storage or disposal, a $500B untapped market.
Craig Carpenter
CEO of X1 Discovery
Craig Carpenter is the CEO of X1. Craig has over 20 years of experience in the eDiscovery, compliance and cybersecurity spaces. He was most recently CEO of Fronteo, and previously held C-level positions at Kroll Ontrack, AccessData, Recommind, and Fortinet. He has also been an active leader in industry groups like the Sedona Conference (Working Group 1 and the Social Media Task Force), TREC, Black Hat, SANS, ISACA and CompTIA. Craig began his career as a practicing attorney at Ropers, Majeski, Kohn & Bentley in Silicon Valley servicing multinational technology companies. He has a JD and MBA from Santa Clara University and BAs from UCLA where he played football and rowed crew.
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About X1 Discovery: X1 offers solutions that enable knowledge workers to access all forms of corporate data through a single interface.
Bill Harrison
CEO of ComplianceBridge
Bill Harrison directs ComplianceBridge business strategy, oversees strategic marketing and product development initiatives, and consults with clients. Previously, he held executive and management positions at Tandem Computers, Compaq Computers, Blue Pumpkin Software and Pro3 Security. He has more than 30 years of experience leading software engineering and development, customer support, professional services, compliance information systems and sales engineering. Bill holds degrees in Mathematics and Computer Science from UCLA and is a Certified IS Auditor.
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About ComplianceBridge: ComplianceBridge’s flagship product, is a cost-effective policy management and procedure management software solution.
Sarabjit Baveja
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Trooly
Sarabjit is a founder and CEO of Trooly. Prior to Trooly, he was a senior partner at the strategy consulting firm Bain & Company, and a member of the Bain Board of Directors. Savi is an oenophile, bibliophile, cynophile, and general bon vivant. P rior to joining Bain, Savi obtained an MBA with high distinction as a Baker Scholar from Harvard University and a BS with distinction as a Terman Scholar in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University. “It is shocking how easily we accept old and deeply flawed trust mechanisms like background checks and credit checks to be ground truth in our society. Surely we can do better with the power of data.”
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About Trooly: Trooly delivers Instant Trust™ services that verify, screen and predict trustworthy relationships and interactions. #FinTech #P2P
Arthur Ambarik
CEO and Financial Advisor of Perigon Wealth Management
Arthur Ambarik is the CEO and Financial Advisor at Perigon Wealth Management.
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About Perigon Wealth Management: Wealth Management and Something More
Chris Moustakas
President & CEO of DevonWay
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About DevonWay: DevonWay is a leading software provider of Quality, Safety, Work, and Asset Management solutions (EHSQ, QMS, EHS, EAM)
Laxmi Ramanath
Founder, CEO of La Meer Inc.
She has over 20 years of experience in the financial markets worldwide in business consulting, system development, project management and customer relationship in US, Europe and India. Laxmi has worked in esteemed organizations like Citigroup, Silicon Valley Bank and CMC Limited on a wide range of very complex applications such as Bombay Stock Exchange On-line Trading system, Credit Data warehouse for Citibank London, Evaluation of Integrated Treasury system for Citibank Singapore, Derivatives Processing system for Euro conversion of one of the most complex systems for Citibank London, Internet Banking for Private Banking as well as Corporate Customers for Silicon Valley Bank. She has been a requirement specialist and designer for many of these systems. She founded La Meer with the focus of building risk management solutions. La Meer currently has a suite of software solutions for various areas of risk management. She is an active member of the financial community and is on the Steering Committees of the PRMIA (Professional Risk Manager’s International Association- SF Chapter ) and 100womeninhedgefunds – Northern California Chapter. She is well versed with all the regulatory changes in the US and Europe in both the Banking and Alternate Investment market. She understands the impacts of the Dodd-Frank Act on Systemic risk, OTC market changes, Investment Advisor registration requirements, and institutional market changes and is an active member in all the discussions.
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About La Meer Inc.: La Meer Inc. is a risk management software solutions company for financial services.
Mark D’Arcy
President & Chief Executive Officer of FINCAD
Mark D’Arcy is the President & Chief Executive Officer at FINCAD.
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About FINCAD: FINCAD provides risk analytics and risk management software for valuations and pricing of derivatives including swaps, options, and futures.
