The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with Richa Kaul, founder and CEO of Complyance, for a conversation about one of the most crowded buzzword fields in the modern GRC universe: AI. The discussion begins with the story of Complyance, how it emerged, and what has helped it stand out in an increasingly competitive market. From there, Mic...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, field researcher and intergalactic GRC hitchhiker Michael Rasmussen is joined by Graeme Keith and Stefan Gershater for a conversation that is slightly unusual for the series because there is no technology vendor in sight. Instead, it’s two deeply experienced risk practitioners looking at the GRC technology market from the outs...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with Richard Eddolls, co-founder and Platform Director of CoreStream, for a conversation about what happens when a GRC platform is built around one deceptively difficult idea—delivering real value. Richard shares the origins of CoreStream, how the company evolved from its early beginnings, and how i...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with Adelani Adesida and Dave Rusher of Aravo to explore why third-party risk has become one of the defining challenges of the modern enterprise. The conversation starts with a simple reality. The extended enterprise is the enterprise now. Organizations increasingly rely on vast networks of supplier...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with Guru Sethupathy of Optro to explore a question many organizations are still struggling to answer. What does AI governance actually mean in practice? The conversation starts with what keeps clients up at night. Not just risk, but the pace of change. AI is moving faster than most governance model...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with Anders Søborg, co-founder and co-CEO of E-V-E AI, in an unusual setting at the Glyptoteket Museum in Copenhagen. Surrounded by a space that blends art, architecture, and atmosphere into a single experience, the conversation begins with a simple idea. Context changes how you see everything. It t...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with Adil Khan, CEO of SafePaaS, to explore what governance looks like when the enterprise is no longer neatly contained. They begin with the story of SafePaaS, including where it came from, what it set out to solve, and why it has taken a different path from many other GRC platforms. At its core, S...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with Anthony Habayeb, co-founder and CEO of Monitaur, for a conversation that begins with mythology and quickly finds its way into the realities of governing artificial intelligence. Anthony explains the origin of the name Monitaur, and why the image of navigating a labyrinth isn’t such a bad metaph...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with Stas Bojoukha, founder and CEO of Compyl, to explore a different way of thinking about governance, risk, and compliance. The conversation begins with what makes Compyl stand out in a crowded market and the kinds of real-world use cases organizations rely on it to solve today. From there, Michae...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen explores a familiar but evolving constellation in the GRC universe: Mitratech. Long associated with what Michael calls “Legal GRC,” Mitratech has steadily expanded its orbit, moving from legal operations into enterprise-wide risk, compliance, and HR governance. The conversation examines what separates Mitrate...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen speaks with David Fisher, President of TDI Solutions, about something that often gets lost in the noise of modern GRC—Intelligence. They begin by exploring what makes TDI Solutions different in a crowded landscape. While many platforms lead with automation and AI, TDI starts with intelligence (human expertise...

In this episode, field researcher and galactic GRC hitchhiker for the Guide, Michael Rasmussen, talks with Aadesh Gawde, Founder and CEO of Optimas.ai, about a different way of thinking about GRC—not as workflows to manage, but as systems to engineer. The conversation begins with Aadesh’s analogy of Optimas as a Jarvis-like concierge for cybersecurity and resilience, a way of describing how the pl...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with Michael Campbell, Chief Executive Officer of Fusion Risk Management, to make sense of a GRC universe that has expanded to well over a thousand solutions (many trying to be everything, and a few choosing to be very precise). Michael shares his journey to Fusion and how decades of leading technol...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen is joined by Andreas Schmitz, whose journey through the risk universe began not in a product roadmap, but deep in the practitioner trenches and eventually led him to CRISAM. They explore what happens when someone who has actually lived with risk frameworks, audits, and regulatory pressure falls in love with a...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with MetricStream to trace a long and improbable journey that began in the age of SOX spreadsheets and has evolved into something far more ambitious. They reflect on MetricStream’s early role in shaping enterprise GRC, how the platform grew alongside regulatory pressure, and why today’s MetricStream...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen is joined by Gary Lynam, Managing Director for EMEA at Protecht, to trace the unlikely but influential journey of one of the GRC universe’s quiet constants. The conversation begins in Australia, a place with an outsized impact on modern risk thinking, exploring how the AS/NZS 4360 Standard laid the groundwork...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen is joined by Kyle Martin of NAVEX to chart the company’s long arc, from its early days to the AI-powered, fully connected risk and compliance platform used by organizations across the world today. They explore how NAVEX has evolved alongside the market, why its integrated approach resonates with customers, an...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen is joined by Andrew McIntyre, a veteran explorer of the GRC universe whose career in sales has been shaped by equal parts skill, serendipity, and outright improbability. Andrew shares how he first found his way into sales, the capabilities that truly matter in a world where relationships carry more weight tha...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen is joined by iluminr to confront a hard truth: business continuity is dying, and resilience must take its place. Organizations today aren’t just facing power outages and weather events, they’re also preparing for ransomware, geopolitical escalation, misinformation, deepfakes, and a threat landscape evolving f...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with apexanalytix to chart a course through the sprawling universe of third-party and vendor relationships—where complexity multiplies, risks hide in plain sight, and organizations often panic at the wrong end of the lifecycle. Unlike many in the space, apexanalytix begins not with risk, but with su...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with Cura Software Solutions to explore how a platform that began as a focused risk tool has evolved into a global, end-to-end GRC ecosystem. From enterprise risk to operational resilience, audit, compliance, legal, analytics, and more, Cura now spans an entire constellation of capabilities used by...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with the team at Decision Focus to explore why the future of GRC isn’t about more features, it’s about better decisions. They discuss how culture, values, and the people building and using the technology shape outcomes far more than checklists or templates ever could. The conversation examines how D...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with Jason Sechrist of AuditBoard to explore how the company has transformed from an audit tool into one of the most intelligent platforms in the GRC cosmos. They discuss what makes AuditBoard distinctly improbable—a platform that’s as beautiful as it is powerful, blending a clean, intuitive UX with...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen connects with the Riskonnect CEO, Jim Wetekamp, to explore how the company is helping organizations see through the code of risk, from insurable exposures and geopolitical volatility to AI-driven analysis and quantified decision-making. The discussion dives into what Riskonnect delivers across the GRC univers...

In this episode of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the GRC Technology Galaxy, Michael Rasmussen sits down with Alex Hollis of SureCloud to discuss how the company is rewriting the rules of digital risk and resilience. SureCloud’s event-sourced architecture captures everything that ever happens in the system (every change, every control, every decision) allowing organizations to recreate their compliance...