About GRC Careers

• He began at Isaacson, Miller, working for Arnie Miller, his mentor and guiding light. He calls his time there a second master’s degree
• He went on to found ExecSearches. Isaacson, Miller was the first client, and is still a client today
• Founder of ExecSearches.com, recruiting nonprofit executive leadership since 1999
• Mathematics and computer science, Purdue University
• Master's in Leadership and Educational Analysis, University of Missouri-Columbia
• Studying for the IAPP AI Governance Professional credential, alongside the people this board is built for
• Wrote about governance and compliance on the ExecSearches blog for years before GRC Careers was an idea, and recorded podcast episodes on the subject. The company came out of the writing, not the other way round
• Works across executive search, career coaching and technology, for health, public sector, mission-driven and educational organizations
• Builds AI agents and consults on search visibility: SEO, GEO, LLMO and answer engine optimization
• Sets editorial and search direction across the network
• At Isaacson, Miller some colleagues called him the machine, because he does not stop until it works. Karen Wilcox, a partner at the firm, described him as a visionary
• A creative thinker and problem solver first. Asked what he would do with a student who had no idea what career they wanted, he answered without pausing: “That’s my favorite client.”
• Has innovated in nearly everything he has touched, and leads through enthusiasm rather than authority. The motive has consistently been to build something that matters more than something that pays

Louise ran institutional risk management and internal audit strategy at Harvard University, and before that worked at Columbia University, first in its Office of Internal Audit and then directing HR, finance and administration for the Office of the Registrar and Student Financial Services. She began as an IT Consultant and IT Auditor for Fortune 100 big pharma, consumer products, oilfield services, and banking, worked in Big Four risk consulting as an outsourced internal audit lead at KPMG, served as Assistant Vice President for corporate compliance and internal audit at Hospital for Special Surgery, and is now President and CEO of Transparency GRC, advising healthcare and medical research organizations on governance, enterprise risk, internal audit and compliance, including as interim leadership. In short, she has spent her career doing the work this Academy teaches rather than observing it, and she has done it inside two Ivy League institutions, a Big Four firm and major hospital systems. She is known for identifying and implementing operational performance improvements, reading strategy, operations and technology through a risk lens, and for the outside-the-box questioning that finds the control nobody owns. At GRC Careers, she builds and leads the training programme, mentors the team, reviews what we publish before it goes out, and holds us to the standards we teach. A company that sells governance training has no business being loose about its own governance, and she is the person who makes sure we are not.

• Associate Director, Institutional Risk Management and Audit Strategy, Harvard University
• Office of Internal Audit, then Director of HR, Finance and Administration, Columbia University
• Outsourced Internal Audit Executive, KPMG Risk Consulting
• Assistant Vice President, Corporate Compliance and Internal Audit, Hospital for Special Surgery
• President and CEO, Transparency GRC
• New York University, Stern School of Business
• Career GRC certifications earned: CISA (ISACA), CIA (IIA), CHC (HCCA), CRMC (IIA)

Stephan is a practising GRC professional, not a former one. He has led SOX and regulatory audits for Citi, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley and McKesson, and works in risk advisory and internal audit across financial services today. He is available for advisory and interim engagements alongside his work here, where he leads production across the platform and writes the AI governance essay series. He works in English, French and Spanish.

• Over a decade in GRC, still practising today
• SOX, regulatory audit, risk advisory and internal audit in financial services
• Public Accounting Certification, Cornell University; Sciences Po Lyon
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Jonathan works on the part of governance most people skip: making information findable, trustworthy and actually usable. His practice runs across data and information governance, metadata and taxonomy, and the customer success side of getting people to adopt a system once it exists, which is where most governance programmes quietly fail. He holds an MSLIS and is completing an ALM at Harvard, with a thesis in progress. Based in Spain and fluent in Spanish, he leads our digital strategy, which means the European regulatory picture reaches us from someone living inside it rather than reading about it. Spain stood up the first dedicated AI supervisory agency in the Union, so he is working from one of the places where the EU AI Act is being turned into practice first rather than discussed. He is studying for the IAPP AI Governance Professional credential and writing a first-person account of that preparation as he goes, and he hosts the podcast. He works under Louise Bertrand, who mentors him and sets his brief.

• Governance, metadata and knowledge systems; customer success and revenue operations
• MSLIS, 3.86 GPA. Harvard ALM coursework complete, thesis in progress
• Built a founder-led business to $500K and took it to profitability

Karen runs executive search for mission-driven organizations and coaches senior leaders through the moments that decide a career: strategy, resumes, public profiles, and the application materials that get read rather than filed. Her particular subject is equitable hiring, treated as a set of techniques a recruiter can actually apply on a Tuesday afternoon with three candidates and a deadline, rather than as a statement of values. Her articles are among the most-read anywhere on the network.

• JD, International and Comparative Law, Columbia University Law School in the City of New York. Charles Evans Hughes Fellow, Human Rights Law Review, Parker School diploma cum laude
• AB cum laude, History and Literature of England and France, Harvard University. John Harvard Scholar and Elizabeth Cary Agassiz Scholar
• Strategic problem solving at executive level
• Partners effectively across reporting lines to implement innovative policies and programmes
• Familiar with the issues likely to affect organisational compliance, and adept at defining cost-effective approaches to meeting the requirements
• Builds rapport and a deep understanding of a candidate’s vision, practical experience and strengths
• Skilled at presenting nuanced reporting to search committees and boards
• Search Solution Leader, ExecSearches.com
• Full-cycle recruitment across financial, legal, nonprofit and education sectors, with strategic talent acquisition, succession planning and retention

Katherine advises executives, founders and leadership teams. She helps CEOs and senior teams communicate with clarity, strengthen relationships and bring people together around a shared vision. Through OP Creative Communications she advises executives and mission-driven organizations across strategic communications, executive counsel, responsible AI, partnerships and philanthropy, and she publishes Best Strategies For Nonprofits, a monthly newsletter for social-impact leaders. Here she shapes how the network explains itself, which matters more than it sounds in a field where most organizations describe governance in language nobody outside it can follow.

• Founder, OP Creative Communications
• Strategic communications, executive counsel and responsible AI
• Partnerships, philanthropy and executive management
• Publishes Best Strategies For Nonprofits

Sabine est stratège en marketing B2B et construit des programmes de communication à 360° : stratégie de marque et plan de déploiement, contenus de leadership éclairé, campagnes inbound et outbound, génération de leads, relations presse et analystes avec l’optimisation des retombées qui en découle. Elle a mené des media trainings, des programmes d’employee advocacy et des stratégies d’e-réputation, et a dirigé des équipes en local comme à l’international. Elle connaît déjà la maison : directrice marketing à temps partagé chez ExecSearches depuis plusieurs années, elle prend la direction marketing monde en terrain connu. Basée à Bordeaux, elle nous donne une présence européenne réelle : avec des collègues en France et en Espagne, la lecture réglementaire nous parvient de personnes qui la vivent, et non qui la lisent.
Chief Global Marketing Officer. B2B brand and communications strategy, press and analyst relations, inbound and outbound campaigns, and cross-border team management, from Bordeaux.

• Stratégie de marque B2B, développement et plan de déploiement
• Contenus de leadership éclairé, campagnes inbound et outbound, génération de leads
• Relations presse et analystes, media training, optimisation des retombées
• Communication interne, talents et fidélisation, employee advocacy, e-réputation
• Management d’équipes locales et transfrontalières. Bordeaux, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France
• Directrice marketing à temps partagé, ExecSearches.com
• Master Information et Communication, Université Jean Moulin Lyon III
• Licence de langue et littérature anglaises, University of Oklahoma
• Certificat Formateur-Consultant, Excelia

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