About the author
Adam Markowitz is the CEO & Co-Founder of Drata, the leading agentic trust management platform for automating compliance, managing risk, and proving trust. Since launching in 2021, Drata has become one of the world's fastest-growing software companies with over 8,000+ global customers.
Before Drata, Adam founded Portfolium, an ed-tech platform serving millions of students across 3,600+ colleges and universities—acquired by Instructure (NYSE: INST) in 2019. Earlier in his career, he worked as an Aerospace Engineer designing and testing liquid rocket engines for NASA and the Space Shuttle program. He holds a BS in Structural Engineering from UC San Diego and an MS in Astronautical Engineering from USC.