Schwan brings nearly 20 years of experience in the IT, Security, Compliance, and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) industry to the A-LIGN executive team.
Cybersecurity and compliance audit firm A-LIGN is pleased to announce the appointment of Scott Schwan to Chief Product Officer for the A-SCEND compliance management platform. The growth and continued development of the A-SCEND platform demands a unique blend of industry knowledge, business and technical savvy, cross-team collaboration, and project execution skills to help deliver a strong value proposition for A-LIGN customers.
Schwan is responsible for the product vision, strategy, and evangelism for the A-SCEND suite of software and portal products. His team interacts with internal and external customers to learn, capture, and prioritize product features into a delivery roadmap. By acting as a conduit between customers and building company-wide product alignment across A-LIGN teams, Schwan and his team will build a product and user experience that customers will love.
“The compliance auditing industry is experiencing a renaissance as organizations look to enable service delivery through software implementation,” says Schwan. “This amounts to a major cultural shift and I am excited to join A-LIGN in its efforts to be the preeminent software-enabled compliance service in the world.”
Prior to joining A-LIGN, Schwan was founder and CEO at Shujinko, a SaaS startup focused on automating enterprise compliance. Before Shujinko, he was the director of cloud engineering at Starbucks, where he led a team of DevSecOps engineers responsible for delivering an internal product for Starbucks development teams. Additionally, Schwan was a security and infrastructure leader at CardFree, a principal security architect and lead security engineer at Starbucks, PCI-DSS program manager for Tommy Bahama, an IT auditor for PricewaterhouseCoopers, and a network administrator for SAP.
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