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At COO (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 COO’ operating in the Compliance space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Michael Seckler
Chief Operating Officer of Justworks
Michael Seckler, also known as Mike, co-founded Euclidean Technologies, LLC and served as its Partner. Michael Seckler served as a Vice President of Marketing & Business Development of ADP Employease, Inc. He Co-Founded ADP Employease. Michael Seckler was responsible for positioning ADP Employease, Inc., in the marketplace, generating customer demand, and structuring high-impact partnerships. Michael Seckler often serves as the spokesperson for it, and has presented at industry conferences and seminars including HR Technology Conference & Expo, Internet World, Red Herring’s Top 100 Company Conference, and many other HR & investor conferences. Michael Seckler is Co-founder of Euclidean Technologies. Michael Seckler has also been published in HR Focus and Electronic Commerce World. Before co-founding ADP Employease, Inc. In 1996, Michael Seckler worked with Mercer Management Consulting in Boston. Most of his clients were in the telecommunications industry or involved with then-emerging markets involving the Internet and online services industries. He served as Division Vice President at ADP Employease. He has been a Director of Apprenda Inc. since 2008. He served as Director of FTRANS Corp. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Geology and History from Williams College.
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About Euclidean Technologies, Justworks: Justworks provides small and medium-sized businesses with simple software and expert support for payroll, benefits, HR, and compliance.
Stepan Ilyin
Co-Founder & COO of Wallarm
Stepan is a co-founder of Wallarm, Y Combinator-backed company, which provides AI-driven security for modern applications and APIs.
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About Wallarm: End-to-end API Security for the Modern Teams
Christie Kim
COO of Persona
Christie Kim serves as the Chief Operations Manager 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.
Brian Kane
COO & co-founder of Sourcepoint
As an experienced Operations Executive within the online advertising space, Brian has a particular talent for building companies that deliver scalable and differentiated services to digital publishers. As Co-founder and COO of Sourcepoint Brian aims to meet the expanding compensation challenges faced by premium publishers and provide them with content compensation alternatives that foster more open, balanced value exchanges with consumers. Prior to co-founding Sourcepoint, Brian was COO of LiveRail, the ad tech platform acquired by Facebook, working with the executive team on go-to-market strategy, and leading the Technical Services, Human Resources, and Account Management teams. Brian was previously COO of ad optimisation platform Admeld, where he headed up Global Client Services and Human Resources. He was a pivotal contributor to the development of Admeld’s customer centric and employee focused culture – key drivers in the company’s subsequent acquisition by Google. Prior to Admeld he spent 9 years with DoubleClick/Google, where as an early employee, he held various executive roles and helped to build DoubleClick’s Client Services and Operations organization. Brian studied at the University of Miami and the City University of New York-Brooklyn College, and is highly respected as a solutions-oriented and people-focused leader.
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About Admeld, showd.me, Sourcepoint: Sourcepoint is the data privacy software company for the digital marketing ecosystem.
Chris Handman
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of TerraTrue
Chris Handman is a Co-Founder and COO at TerraTrue. He was the General Counsel at Snap Inc. and Partner at Hogan Lovells.
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About TerraTrue: TerraTrue is a privacy platform designed to work with product development.
Gabrielle Haddad
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Sigma Ratings
Gabrielle Haddad is the Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Sigma Ratings, Inc., the world’s first non-credit rating agency. Gabrielle began her career as an M&A attorney at Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy in NYC. She subsequently spent several years as an executive at The Global Fund, a Geneva, Switzerland based international financing institution, where she worked on risk and governance issues in over 30 country portfolios across Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Her passion for international development, technology and innovation led her to return to the US and to spend a year studying at MIT, where she met her co-founder and launched Sigma. Gabrielle has an undergraduate degree in Finance from Villanova University, a J.D. from The George Washington University Law School and an M.B.A. from the Sloan School of Management at MIT.
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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.
Josiah Tsui
Co-founder & COO of Finley Technologies
Josiah Tsui is a Co-founder at Finley Technologies.
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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.
Omar Haroun
Co-Founder & COO of Text IQ
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About Sportaneous, Text IQ: Text IQ is a B2B SaaS company deploying AI to uncover and contextualize sensitive data across privacy, security, legal, and compliance.
Adam Buggia
COO of Sym
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About Sym, Upland Localytics: Sym is a security workflow platform that solves the intent-to-execution gap between policies and workflows.
J. Phillip Holloman
President & COO of Cintas
President and COO of Cintas Corporation (corporate identity uniforms and related business services). Mr. Holloman joined Cintas in 1996 and has served in various leadership positions including Vice President – Engineering/Construction from 1996 to 2000, Vice President – Distribution/Production Planning from 2000 to 2003, Executive Champion of Six Sigma Initiatives from 2003 to 2005 and most recently, Sr. Vice President – Global Supply Chain Management from 2005 until he was promoted to President and COO in January 2008.
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About Cintas: Headquartered in Cincinnati, OH, Cintas Corporation provides highly specialized services to businesses of all types throughout North
Ben Cianciaruso
COO & Co-Founder of Verodin
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About Verodin: Verodin is a business platform that enables organizations to measure, manage, and improve their cybersecurity effectiveness.
ALEXANDER REIFE
Co-Founder & COO of IDOS – DIGITAL CFO
Alex is the founder of IDOS CORP with over 18 years of experience actively engaged in international development activities, including procurement policy, regulations and audit, budgeting and financial analysis and management, program risk assessment, business and educational program development, fostering business linkages and institutional capacity building. He has extensive hands-on experience in providing full business cycle management of multi-year development projects involving large teams of local and expatriate staff and subcontractors. He possesses strong analytical research and writing experience in the areas of financial analysis, economic and business development related to private sector restructuring, capacity building processes, institutional and organizational strengthening. Alex has substantial experience in managing firms’ contract, compliance and audit operations, especially in the field of international development. He has deep knowledge of the US Federal procurement regulations and is well versed in procurement regulations of other donor organizations including the World Bank, Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the United Kingdom Department for International Development (DFID). Promoted team development through coaching, mentoring, and facilitating professional growth opportunities. Alex led numerous successful business proposal efforts for major indefinite quantity contracts (IQC) and US GSA schedules.
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About IDOS – DIGITAL CFO: Accounting & Financial management software platform
Everett Young
Co-Founder and COO of Secberus
Co-Founder at Secberus
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About iCHAMPSPORTS Inc, Secberus: Secberus is the only CSPM that provides a policy-first, CARTA-driven approach to enterprise cloud security & compliance.
Tom Snyder
Co-founder , COO & CFO of Xantrion
Tom manages Xantrion’s consulting team and finances. He has architected dozens of business computer networks. He developed our client focused Complete Care service, which provides unlimited support and a guarantee of satisfaction at a fixed monthly cost. He also pioneered internal policies such as open book financial reporting and profit sharing, which resulted in a high level of team member retention and satsifaction. Prior to founding Xantrion, Tom was Director of Consulting for an I.T. consulting firm. He also worked as a management consultant for McKinsey and CFO of CoForge. Prior to that, he was an operations manager for Chevron. Tom has a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and a Ph.D. in Chemical Engineering from the University of Wisconsin.
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About Xantrion: Xantrion specializes in outsourced managed IT services and cybersecurity for mid-sized companies in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Sacha Schmitz
Co-founder – COO & Product of Whispli
Sacha Schmitz is a problem solver and builder with 10+ years of experience at the intersection of product, engineering and design. He was previously Head of Product at eFounders, a startup studio that launched 15 successful B2B SaaS companies.
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About Whispli: Whispli makes safe whistleblowing easy by providing a secure, two-way and anonymous communication between organizations and their employees.
Chris Henshue
COO and Co-Founder of Brandbumps
Chris Henshue is the Co-Founder and COO of Brandbumps.
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About Brandbumps: Brandbumps Marketing Group is a manufacturer and installer of detectable warning panels for advertisers and retailers.
Jermaine Jones
Co-Founder, Chief Operating Officer, and CISO of Ostendio
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About Ostendio: Ostendio is integrated risk management platform that makes it easier to build, operate, and showcase cybersecurity programs.
Jim Kelly
COO / Product of Safety Tag
Jim Kelly is the COO of Safety Tag, responsible for all customer and product operations, where we are building a Safety & Compliance platform focused on Creating a Safer Environment for our customers through safety profiles, injury reporting, compliance tracking, and medical treatment.
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About Safety Tag: Safety Tag is a network connecting companies, schools, athletic organizations, & related organizations to create safer environments.
Matthew Hauck
Chief Operating Officer of Ensighten
Mat has served in several capacities in his time with Ensighten, including VP of Global Partnerships and VP of International Markets, before moving to lead the global CSM, Client Services, Support and Training teams as Chief Operating Officer. Mat has over sixteen years’ experience within the marketing technology space, having built a wealth of industry knowledge as a technical consultant before growing global teams with Unica, IBM and Datalicious. Additionally, Mat has served in an advisory capacity for market intelligence firm Gap Intelligence and other entrepreneurial endeavours.
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About Ensighten: The leader in website security & privacy compliance
