Dan Zitting

Dan serves as the Managing Director and CEO at Galvanize. His role includes executive leadership of the company’s strategy, products, underlying technology, and customer service/success.

With more than 18 years in tech, Dan has a unique combination of experience in enterprise software, tech entrepreneurship/growth, and corporate risk management & compliance. His interest is in developing technology that helps companies and governments be better citizens to their employees, communities, suppliers, and the environment while improving returns to shareholders.

His (personal) purpose is to “challenge the planet’s organizations to maximize ‘total stakeholder impact’ by operating with a conscience”. Dan is a regular contributor to the Forbes Tech Council, and he has shared his insights and experience in publications like The Wall Street Journal, CFO Magazine, Bloomberg Business, Reuters, The Street, and CNBC. He has also been recognized with “40 under 40" industry leader awards from Ernst & Young, CPA Practice Advisor Magazine, Business in Vancouver, ColoradoBiz Magazine, etc.

Prior to Galvanize, Dan spent most of 10 years in professional services before founding the SaaS platform and New York City tech start-up Workpapers.com—the first enterprise “cloud” software for audit and compliance management. The company was later acquired by ACL (now Galvanize), combining the power of cloud collaboration and “big data” analytics into one industry-leading platform and brand.

Galvanize has since become the global leader for GRC software. The Company defined the idea and vision of “data-driven GRC” and is delivering its vision of becoming the operating system for conscious organizations.