To celebrate a decade of LogicGate, co-founders Matt Kunkel, Jon Siegler, and Dan Campbell take listeners back to where it all began. They reflect on LogicGate’s origins and evolution, sharing early challenges, key milestones—including the story behind the GOAT mascot—and pivotal moments that shaped the first ten years. The founders also discuss the company's growth, the changing GRC landscape, company culture, and their vision for the future. Tune in for firsthand insights from the founders in ...
Jun 25, 2025•35 min•Season 9Ep. 5
Join Vinted’s Group Risk & Compliance Officer, Elisabeth Quillatre, and Risk Process Manager, Goda Marija Vaitkeviciute, as they debunk common GRC myths in retail. From data privacy to supply chain risks, they explore the human side of risk and share practical insights on building a strong compliance culture, not just implementing controls.
Jun 05, 2025•24 min•Season 9Ep. 4
Tune in as we’re joined by industry leaders from BCU, BillGo, and Centier Bank that share their unique perspective and insight on the future of the financial industry. Hosted by Meghan Maneval, panelists Stephenie Southard, Steve Gasiamis, and Donald Rome dive into the key trends and challenges shaping the financial landscape in 2025. From navigating regulatory changes and ensuring security resilience, to exploring the rise of digital banking technologies like blockchain, AI, and open banking, g...
Apr 30, 2025•27 min•Season 9Ep. 3
In this episode, Google Continuous Assurance Engineering Director, Vikram Khare, and Senior Software Engineering Manager, Eric Zhang, discuss implementing continuous assurance, with tips for getting started and real-world examples through the lines of defense. They cover the challenges of keeping up with evolving controls and risks, as well as the reality of automating controls only to need updates again. Tune in to hear best practices for maintaining integrations and automations, how auditors a...
Mar 27, 2025•24 min•Season 9Ep. 2
In this episode, host Meghan Maneval is joined by Google’s Product Management Lead for Cybersecurity Compliance Products, Ruchi Khurana, to explore the current state of AI and automation in the GRC industry. They dive into key considerations for the role of AI and ML in the GRC domain, including critical success criteria and how to prioritize AI-related risks across departments. They also discuss the key challenges in the GRC industry. Tune in for insights on leveraging AI and ML to drive effici...
Feb 19, 2025•32 min•Season 9Ep. 1
In the season 8 finale, guest host Jade Trombetta is joined by Salim Alameddin, Senior Vice President at Crossroads Strategies, LLC to discuss key cybersecurity and AI regulation trends and new administration objectives that will shape 2025. They explore a variety of topics from the evolving landscape of cybersecurity, including the growing threat of geopolitical cyberattacks, to AI and compliance under the new administration. They also chat about the challenges some of the cabinet may have jump...
Feb 03, 2025•37 min•Season 8Ep. 5
In this episode, host Meghan Maneval is joined by LogicGate’s Chief Customer Officer, Jen Renna, to discuss the evolution of customer success at LogicGate. They dive into what success looks like from both a customer and internal perspective, and why people are at the heart of it all. The discussion also covers key considerations when selecting a GRC platform, what customers can expect from LogicGate moving forward, proving that GRC is not a cost center with value realization, and how the company...
Dec 19, 2024•17 min•Season 8Ep. 4
Join us in this episode as host Meghan Maneval and Michael Rasmussen - GRC Analyst & Pundit at GRC 20/20 Research, LLC - discuss vendor risk management and the differences between third, fourth, and fifth-party risks. They discuss essential regulations and standards in the financial and banking sectors, highlighting how they vary by organization maturity. As well as best practices for effectively building and managing a comprehensive vendor risk management program and staying current with ri...
Oct 16, 2024•26 min•Season 8Ep. 3
In this episode, we’re excited to explore the ever-changing landscape of banking compliance. We’ll cover best practices for staying audit-ready amidst constantly evolving regulations. The discussion will address compliance requirements, from NCUA mandates to state-specific privacy laws, PCI 4.0, and more. We’ll also talk about AI in banking along with third-party and vendor risks. This insightful conversation will highlight both the challenges and best practices in navigating compliance complexi...
Sep 30, 2024•24 min•Season 8Ep. 2
Optimizing Risk: GRC is no longer a cost center - it’s a business enabler Guests: LogicGate CEO, Matt Kunkel and CISO, Nick Kathmann Historically GRC was viewed as one line in a budget sheet, but that is rapidly changing. GRC practitioners are elevating their programs with tools and technologies that aggregate data and story-tell situational risk, security, compliance changes and more so businesses can make risk-based decisions to move the needle forward. Matt Kunkel and Nick Kathmann will share...
Jul 24, 2024•40 min•Season 8Ep. 1
Switching from traditional risk analysis methods like ordinal lists or red-yellow-and-green charts to more modern approaches like risk quantification requires a paradigm shift in how you think about measuring risk, but the increased accuracy, specificity, and reliability you’ll gain by doing so pays dividends. On this episode of GRC & Me, Netflix’s Tony Martin-Vegue join LogicGate’s Chris Clarke to explore the best ways to navigate this transition, how to learn and leverage popular risk quan...
Nov 08, 2023•1 hr 8 min•Season 7Ep. 10
They say it takes a thief to catch a thief, so why not a hacker to catch a hacker? That was the premise behind Ted Harrington’s Independent Security Evaluators, a company dedicated to poking holes into other companies’ cyber defenses — for the right reasons, of course. On this episode of GRC & Me, Ted takes LogicGate’s Chris Clarke on a journey down the benevolent hacker’s rabbit hole, where they discuss: The difference between white box and black box testing (and which is better.) Why carry...
Oct 18, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 7Ep. 9
Few careers involve managing as much risk as one where you’re responsible for launching humans riding gigantic rockets into outer space. That’s exactly what Barrios Technology Chief Strategy Officer Ginger Kerrick did during her three-decade career working for NASA. On this episode of GRC & Me, Ginger joins LogicGate’s Chris Clarke to discuss methods for developing methodical, standardized thought processes for risk decision-making in high-stakes scenarios, how NASA employees are trained to ...
Oct 04, 2023•1 hr 1 min•Season 7Ep. 8
One of the most high-profile risk events of the last year was the swift collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and other regional banks amid spiking interest rates. Part of the problem? The lack of a complete, comprehensive view of the risks these banks were facing — in particular, liquidity risk. Allstate Canada's Chief Risk Officer Jason Wang has spent his career assessing and analyzing risk in the financial services space, dedicated to anticipating and mitigating risks just like the one that sank SV...
Sep 20, 2023•1 hr 4 min•Season 7Ep. 7
When doing business with the federal government and its myriad agencies, organizations are bound to run into plenty of mandates, regulations, and other requirements. Navigating them all can cause a headache for even the most detail-oriented compliance managers.On this episode of GRC & Me, Chris Clarke is joined by Intel Federal’s Compliance Program Manager, John Griffin. Griffin draws on his decades of experience in federal contracting and working with government agencies at companies like H...
Aug 22, 2023•1 hr•Season 7Ep. 6
Oftentimes, cyber risk teams are viewed as reactive “audit police,” swooping into projects to flag risks and forcing changes at key points. This approach can generate a resentful — even toxic — risk culture. There’s a better way to build healthier risk cultures: Taking a more collaborative, embedded approach to cyber risk management by positioning cyber risk leaders as advisors and partners, working side-by-side with project teams from the start. On this episode of GRC & Me, Chris Clarke is ...
Aug 08, 2023•56 min•Season 7Ep. 5
Cybersecurity programs involve lots of moving parts, and they only grow more complex over time as technology becomes more advanced and cyber threats become more numerous and sophisticated. Cyber risk quantification can be a crucial tool for keeping up with shifting cybersecurity landscapes.On this episode of GRC & Me, Chris Clarke is joined by Protiviti’s Daniel Stone, Director, and Tim Kelly, Associate Director, to discuss how cyber risk quantification can lead to better risk decision-makin...
Jul 26, 2023•58 min•Season 7Ep. 3
With information and cybersecurity incidents growing in frequency and severity, regulators in the European Union are hard at work devising new rules designed to incentivize organizations to harden their cyber defenses. On this episode of GRC & Me, Megan Brown sits down with Wizz Air’s Andras Szabolcs, Cyber Risk Expert, and Peter Szigetvari, Operational Risk Expert, to break down the similarities and differences between two of these new European Union regulations — the Digital Operational Re...
Jun 28, 2023•34 min•Season 7Ep. 2
In just a few months, artificial intelligence went from a fringe technology to full-speed ahead with the public release of ChatGPT. This fascinating technology has the potential to revolutionize how we automate our businesses, but there are numerous reasons to give pause before integrating it into your organization’s operations. On this episode of GRC & Me, Dorian Cougias, Co-Founder and CEO of United Compliance Framework and Chris Clarke sit down to discuss the risks and rewards of embracin...
May 31, 2023•1 hr 11 min•Season 7Ep. 1
On this episode of GRC & Me, Andy Ruse and Mike Curl, former Regulatory Data Manager at Honeywell, discuss the benefits of building dashboards from the bottom up, how to get organizational buy- in when it comes to change management, and Mike's unique culinary approach to executive reporting.
Feb 02, 2023•14 min•Season 6Ep. 8
Getting everyone on the same page about the risks your organization is facing is a crucial part of effectively managing organizational risk. Unfortunately, it’s also one of the hardest parts about effectively managing risk. On this episode of GRC & Me, Dimitrios Stergiou, Director of Information Security at Wayflyer, explains how risk quantification and proper use of standard frameworks can help you build a common language for understanding risk across your organization, break down organizat...
Jan 19, 2023•24 min•Season 6Ep. 7
On this episode of GRC & Me, Andy Ruse, LogicGate’s President of Field Operations, sits down with Cooley’s Mike Santos, Director of Security and Information Governance, to discuss his five-layer maturity model for building effective GRC programs, the different things a risk practitioner has to consider in decision making, and his own recommendations for maturing any risk program.
Jan 04, 2023•25 min•Season 6Ep. 6
Properly measuring risk is the most important ingredient in effectively communicating risk, and communicating risk leads to a richer risk culture at your organization. On this episode of GRC & Me, we sat down with OKTA’s Anthony Riley to hear his best practices for measuring and communicating risk.
Dec 21, 2022•10 min•Season 6Ep. 5
This episode takes a deep dive into creating a business case for investing in GRC technology by proving its cost-saving impact. LogicGate CEO Matt Kunkel spoke with Michael Rasmussen, a renowned GRC expert, to discuss the past, present, and future of GRC spending. Listen to discover how to build a business case for upgrading to the latest and greatest in GRC.
Dec 07, 2022•22 min•Season 6Ep. 4
On this episode of GRC & Me, we explore business resilience and the differences between proactive, reactive, and preemptive approaches to crisis management with Howard Mannella, Senior Staff of Global Business Continuity and Security at Udemy. We learn how Howard stays ahead of risks by focusing on their impact and how organizations of all sizes can evolve their GRC programs. Listen to the full episode for valuable insights any business can use to stay resilient.
Nov 23, 2022•10 min•Season 6Ep. 3
This episode tackles the essential topic of how to build and mature a risk program aligned with business objectives. Andy Ruse, LogicGate’s president of field operations, recently caught up with James Bundy, practice director at cybersecurity consulting firm Optiv, to explore how businesses across all industries can create a holistic GRC program that contributes to real business growth. How can compliance requirements become business enablers? Listen to find out.
Nov 09, 2022•17 min•Season 6Ep. 2
LogicGate’s Megan Phee sat down with Jason Wang, Chief Risk Officer at Synergy Credit Union, to explore the importance of creating or refining business continuity plans in the face of volatility. Business continuity plans help you make critical decisions before you need them. Otherwise, you make those decisions during a business-impacting event when every hour matters. Listen to the full episode to hear Jason’s valuable advice for making enterprise-wide decisions to improve your resilience....
Oct 26, 2022•17 min•Season 6Ep. 1
Making things easier and less paper-bound through digital technology is a top priority for many organizations, especially when it comes to their GRC initiatives. In this episode, LogicGate’s Megan Phee is in London with UAE-based Proxis founder and managing director, Tina Chugani. Join us as Megan and Tina talk about the concept of process digitalization and trends that Tina is seeing within her region. Plus, how technology is helping to make it rain in the desert. Learn more about Proxis at pro...
Jul 27, 2022•19 min•Season 5Ep. 10
With prices increasing across the board, it is getting harder to avoid inflation's risk and a potential recession. In this episode, LogicGate CEO Host Matt Kunkel sits down with John Hotchkiss, Fairway Independent Mortgage Company's Chief Risk Officer. Join us as Matt and John look at how inflation will affect the risk landscape and how best to prepare.
Jul 13, 2022•17 min•Season 5Ep. 8
When people think of GRC, generally, they tend to categorize it within the framework of financial or regulated sectors. Even the entertainment business needs GRC. In this episode, Megan Phee is joined by Tony Martin-Vegue, Senior Information Security Risk Engineer at Netflix, who shares his risk quantification journey, how to get tactically started, and how risk quantification can provide positive business outcomes.
Jun 29, 2022•16 min•Season 5Ep. 7
