Why I Joined RegScale: Compliance Modernization at Scale

There’s an exclusive club of GRC professionals who refuse to accept the status quo. You know if you’re in it. 

You’re in the club if you constantly search for ways to eliminate manual processes, reduce costs to the business, and speed up audits while making their findings more meaningful. You’re in the club if you want to solve multiple, geographically diverse, and complex regulatory compliance challenges with brilliantly simple, scalable solutions. You’re in the club if you trust that AI and automation can transform your operations (but you’re also wary of implementing over-hyped tech). 

Most of all, you’re in the club if you trust that there’s a better way to do compliance. 

What It Takes To Be in the Club 

I know what’s possible because I’ve built it before. First as Director of Risk and Compliance and then as Vice President of Security at AWS, I spent 14 years pioneering ways to innovate the compliance function at scale. As the first in nearly every compliance area for the cloud, I had to modernize industry standards to fit big tech. I had to significantly educate auditors and reframe how to audit the cloud differently. I had to convince countless customers from every industry that they could be successful on AWS. 

Most importantly, I built a program that could actually keep pace with the business. I created a compliance engineering team that implemented principles of compliance as code, achieved high assurance testing with full population and full-time monitoring, and I leveraged automated reasoning to mathematically prove security. As a result, I was able to scale those programs efficiently and globally, provide unprecedented transparency, and open up significant new markets for the business. 

That experience taught me what separates the club members from everyone else: We want to make compliance the function it was born to be. We want to see it as a business enabler, a revenue accelerator, and a true partner to engineering teams. And we want it to be a reality without having to write and maintain mountains of documentation, without the expense of armies of staff, and without the distraction and drag on the engineering teams. 

Why The Club Needs RegScale 

Here’s the thing: I was able to build better GRC at AWS because I had a big company with a big budget. But not every company has the funding and talent to build this kind of automation from scratch. Most companies are automating what they can, but with limited resources and limited success. 

That’s why I joined RegScale: to bring compliance modernization to every company on earth.  

RegScale is a compliance automation and continuous monitoring platform that helps solve the biggest challenges in compliance: risk management, documentation, audit readiness, audit execution, and remediation. Built on a compliance as code foundation, we provide extreme automation with an API-first strategy, self-updating paperwork, and powerful AI agents that all but eliminate manual labor for GRC programs. 

RegScale has been hard at work helping customers build compliance programs that will enable them to quickly open new markets and geos. Heavily regulated organizations, including Fortune 500 enterprises and the federal government, report achieving compliance certifications 90% faster and cutting audit prep by 60% with RegScale’s platform.  

Smart, efficient, AI-enabled. It’s what the club has been looking for all along: compliance modernization as a service and at scale. 

So I’m on a mission to find you, the club members who want to see further by standing on the shoulders of giants. If you recognize yourself in these words, I’m excited to work with you and achieve great things together.