Our Leadership Team

RegScale was built by practitioners for practitioners.
We are compliance experts with more than 100 years of combined executive experience in highly regulated industries. We have brought our collective experience to bear on solving the most difficult and complex compliance problems facing all companies from small businesses to large scale multi-national corporations and government agencies.

Executive Leadership

Travis Howerton

CO-FOUNDER / CEO

Howerton served as the global director for strategic programs within Bechtel Corporation and led the merger, cost savings, and transformation programs at Consolidated Nuclear Security. Howerton has a long and diverse career consisting of senior executive assignments throughout the U.S. Department of Energy. He served as the Deputy Director for IT at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, CTO for the National Nuclear Security Administration, and Chief Information Officer for Y-12.

Eric Erston

CRO

Erston has an extensive background in leading SaaS and PaaS organizations to deliver value to domestic and global customers in the public and private sectors. Erston was the Chief Revenue Officer at Mendix, a low-code application development platform acquired by Siemens. Additionally, he has held multiple executive leadership positions in the Cybersecurity space at RSA and led the Archer business unit.  He also had senior sales leadership roles at Rapid7, enerNoc, and Dynatrace.

Larry Whiteside Jr.

CISO

A veteran CISO, CSO, CTO, former USAF Officer, and thought leader in the Cybersecurity field. He has 25+ years of experience building and running cybersecurity programs, holding C Level Security executive roles in multiple industries, including DoD, Federal Government, Financial Services, Healthcare, and Critical Infrastructure. Whiteside Jr. is also the Co-Founder of Cyversity, a 501(c)3 non-profit association that is dedicated to increasing the number of minorities and women in the cybersecurity career field.

Michael Needel

CFO

Needel has nearly 15 years of experience working with enterprise software and services companies, across financial operations, advisory, acquisitions, and investing capacities. He most recently served as CFO at SecZetta, including successfully leading its acquisition by SailPoint. He was formerly a member of Microsoft’s Corporate Development team and the investment teams at ClearSky and Columbia Capital.

Esty Peskowitz

Director of Marketing

Peskowitz is an accomplished marketing leader with a proven track record of driving innovation and propelling high-growth companies to the new phase. Her career includes spearheading strategic marketing initiatives for industry-leading companies, such as ID.me, Level Access, and Edelman Financial Engines, where she implemented data- and process-driven marketing organizations.

Founders

Anil Karmel

CO-FOUNDER

Karmel has been in the IT Industry for over twenty years, working with Fortune 500 companies and governments at the intersection of cloud, cyber security, and compliance. He and his team garnered industry and government accolades, including the SANS National Cyber Security Innovators Award for Cloud Security, InformationWeek 500 Top Government IT Innovators, ACT/IAC Excellence.gov Award, and the DOE Secretary's Achievement Award.

Travis Howerton

CO-FOUNDER / CEO

Howerton served as the global director for strategic programs within Bechtel Corporation and led the merger, cost savings, and transformation programs at Consolidated Nuclear Security. Howerton has a long and diverse career consisting of senior executive assignments throughout the U.S. Department of Energy. He served as the Deputy Director for IT at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, CTO for the National Nuclear Security Administration, and Chief Information Officer for Y-12.

Investors

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