Chapter Leads

GRC Engineering chapter leads

Local leaders organizing GRC Engineering Club chapters in cities around the world. Find a chapter near you, meet the founding team, and connect with the people building community on the ground.

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Washington, DC

North America · United States

NOVA, Reston, Fort Washington - the DMV showed up harder than any other metro. The federal compliance capital of the world has a full founding leadership team.

Gopal Kharbanda

President

Jonathan Perez

Vice President

Dex-Xavier Copeland

Head of Growth & Training

provisional

Atlanta, GA

North America · United States

The capital of the South has a massive security community and now a GRC engineering chapter to match. Atlanta is building.

Dwight Turner

President

provisional

Augusta, GA

North America · United States

Two members near Fort Gordon, one of the biggest cyber hubs in the country. A chapter here writes itself.

Danielle Koppel

President

Toyeeb Atanda

Vice President

provisional

Austin, TX

North America · United States

A dense tech sector, big state-agency GRC, and a security community ready for the engineering side. Austin's founding team came pre-assembled.

Angeline Williams

President

Jose Ruiz-Vazquez

Vice President

provisional

Bengaluru

Asia · India

Bengaluru has more SOC 2, ISO 27001, and DPDPA work than almost anywhere in India, but the security scene here runs appsec and offensive-heavy. Now GRC engineers get their own room too.

Garima Kakkar

President

provisional

Berlin, Germany

Europe · Germany

Germany's startup capital meets the EU compliance machine. Berlin's security meetup scene finally gets a GRC engineering chapter.

Jascha Wachsmuth-Temme

President

provisional

Birmingham, UK

Europe · United Kingdom

The UK's second city has a deep security scene and almost no GRC home. This chapter gives the governance side its room.

Abdulhakeem Ozigis

President

Ayobamidele Popoola

Vice President

provisional

Boise, ID

North America · United States

The Boise metro is one of the fastest growing tech markets in the country, and its compliance crew is done with checkbox GRC.

Robert E Wiley Jr

President

provisional

Boston, MA

North America · United States

Healthcare, biotech, higher ed, and defense all within twenty minutes, each with its own regulatory world. Boston builds compliance into systems now.

Susan Shepard

President

Sergio Alonso

Vice President

provisional

Chicago, IL

North America · United States

Top-five Fortune 500 headquarters density and a security scene to match. Chicagoland finally gets a GRC engineering home base.

Salmaan Khan

President

Kyle McCormick

Vice President

provisional

Columbia, SC

North America · United States

State government, healthcare, defense contractors, and universities, with a chapter built on hands-on workshops and GRC engineering labs.

Neviar Rawlinson

President

provisional

Dallas, TX

North America · United States

A club member is already here and Dallas is an anticheckbox tour stop. Texas-sized opportunity for a founding President.

Lauren Alex-Igwe

President

provisional

Detroit Metro, MI

North America · United States

From the Big House to the Breslin: one Detroit Metro chapter. Ann Arbor's college-town talent and Lansing's state government security anchor a corridor that runs through Novi, Troy, Livonia, and Plymouth. We don't do pretty. We do Detroit GRC.

Mike Hiltz

President

Zahid Kamil

Vice President

provisional

Doha, Qatar

Asia · Qatar

The club goes to the Middle East. Qatar GRC is growing fast and Doha is where it organizes.

Augustine Tetteh Ozor

President

provisional

Dublin, Ireland

Europe · Ireland

One of Europe's biggest IT hubs, 140+ cybersecurity companies, and until now no home for GRC engineers. Dublin fixes that.

Anbuchezhian Balakrishnan

President

Conor Chaney

Vice President

provisional

Fairbanks, AK

North America · United States

The northernmost chapter in the club. Fairbanks doesn't have a GRC scene yet, so this one starts from scratch.

James Gilchrest

President

provisional

Fayetteville, NC

North America · United States

Home of Fort Bragg, one of the largest military installations in the world. Defense compliance is the day job here; this chapter engineers it.

Kurtes Allen

President

Antoine Boone

Vice President

provisional

Frankfurt, Germany

Europe · Germany

Continental Europe's anchor chapter, home of the EU compliance machine. Frankfurt now has a leader and a home.

Fabrizio Di Carlo

President

provisional

Hampton Roads, VA

North America · United States

Norfolk, Portsmouth, Suffolk, Virginia Beach, Hampton and Newport News - seven cities that go by one name. A hub of military and federal organizations where FedRAMP is everyone's business.

Johnny Vaughan

President

provisional

Hartford, CT

North America · United States

Connecticut runs deep in the club - three members between Hartford, Westbrook, and the shoreline. Insurance capital, meet compliance engineering.

Tiffany Walker-Roper

President

Michelle Cummings

Vice President

provisional

Houston, TX

North America · United States

A club member is already here and Houston hosted a pop-up compliance museum. Space City has liftoff.

Ola Yusuf

President

provisional

Huntsville, AL

North America · United States

Rocket City runs on DoD compliance. Redstone Arsenal, Space Force, and FBI HQ2 are bringing an influx of engineers who need GRC that keeps up.

Kyle Cain

President

Tim Southern

Vice President

provisional

Hyderabad, India

Asia · India

One of India's biggest tech hubs, full of ISACA and ISC2 activity but no GRC engineering community. The club's first chapter in Asia fixes that.

Pradeep Reddy Sama

President

Manisha Kotha

Vice President

provisional

Kenya

Africa · Kenya

The club's first chapter in Africa, run country-wide so practitioners in Mombasa and Kisumu build alongside Nairobi.

Ruby Njoroge

President

Christian Kisutsa

Vice President

provisional

Las Vegas, NV

North America · United States

Cloud Security Alliance's first Vegas meetup pulled 30+ people. The valley's GRC and cyber crowd now has its own table.

Travis Duncan

President

provisional

London, UK

Europe · United Kingdom

The anticheckbox Cafe already happened here. Now Europe's biggest GRC market has a standing chapter at the forefront of GRC engineering in the UK.

Yash Gorasiya

President

provisional

Los Angeles, CA

North America · United States

LA's IT and cyber community already runs deep, ISSA, ISACA, OWASP, AITP, CSA all meet regularly. Now GRC Engineering gets its own room.

Joseph Krikorian

President

Nelson Rosario

Vice President

provisional

Nashville, TN

North America · United States

The Nashville GRC Engineering Club is a community for cybersecurity professionals who want to move beyond documentation and into automation. We focus on building real-world GRC engineering skills by combining cloud infrastructure, Infrastructure as Code, policy-as-code, AI, and compliance automation.

Jonathan Steward

President

provisional

New York City, NY

North America · United States

Finance, fintech, and Big 4 density gives New York more GRC practitioners per square mile than anywhere on earth. Now they have an engineering home.

Iqra Malik

President

provisional

Orlando, FL

North America · United States

The simulation capital of the world, running RMF, CMMC, and DFARS for the Army and Navy's training commands every day. Orlando gets the room for people who want to automate it, not just check it.

Juliet Rodriguez

President

provisional

Philadelphia, PA

North America · United States

A financial hub in NYC's orbit with major insurers and enterprises headquartered downtown. Philly's chapter is led from inside one of them.

Daniel Dragone

President

James Robinson

Vice President

provisional

Phoenix, AZ

North America · United States

Hyperscaler datacenters, Fortune 500 headquarters, and a GRC community that has been running on the old playbook. Phoenix is bringing GRC with Heat.

Benjamin Hobbs

President

provisional

Pittsburgh, PA

North America · United States

Steel City's InfoSec scene already has TRISS on the calendar. Now it has a GRC Engineering chapter to go with it.

Andrew Largent

President

Scott Jones

Vice President

provisional

Raleigh, NC

North America · United States

The Research Triangle is one of the club's biggest clusters, and its chapter runs on hands-on build sessions, not lectures.

John Flack

President

Adarian Dewberry

Vice President

provisional

Salt Lake City, UT

North America · United States

Silicon Slopes and Paramify are right here. Salt Lake City's GRC engineering scene starts now.

Jon LeBaron

President

Chris Honda

Vice President

provisional

San Antonio, TX

North America · United States

Military City USA runs deep on cyber, USAA, and banking GRC. San Antonio is ready to engineer it.

James Gladden

President

Taylor Newman

Vice President

Dirce E. Hernandez

Secretary

Ben Mickens

Treasurer

provisional

San Diego, CA

North America · United States

ISACA and OWASP both meet regularly in San Diego, and the GRC content there stops at auditing. This chapter is for the people who want to build the controls, not just review them.

Ahmed Mohamed

President

provisional

Seattle, WA

North America · United States

A dense aerospace and defense cluster running on CMMC, ITAR, and Space Force compliance, plus a real slice of government cloud infrastructure. Seattle gets its own GRC Engineering chapter.

Anton Nikitin

President

provisional

SF Bay Area, CA

North America · United States

San Francisco and Oakland each have a club member. The Bay builds the tools - a chapter here builds the practice.

Sierra Montoya

President

provisional

Singapore

Asia · Singapore

The club lands in Southeast Asia. Singapore is the regulatory and financial hub of the region, and its GRC engineers now have a home.

Andre Thong

President

provisional

South Florida

North America · United States

Finance and tech keep moving south. From Miami to Coral Springs, South Florida's GRC professionals get a place to connect and build.

Christine Portieles

President

provisional

Stockholm, Sweden

Europe · Sweden

A global AI hub alongside SF, London, and Paris. Spotify, Klarna, Voi, Einride, Lovable: Stockholm was doing GRC engineering before the term existed. The club's first Nordic chapter, led by a former Spotify compliance engineering PM.

Nikola Glad Latinovic

President

provisional

Sydney

Oceania · Australia

Sydney's compliance scene runs on vendor tools and manual checklists. This chapter is for the people building it themselves.

Samir Gautam

President

provisional

Toronto, Canada

North America · Canada

Canada's financial capital: the Big Five banks, OSFI, and a fintech corridor stretching to Waterloo. Compliance engineering has a home here now.

Debjyoti Mukherjee

President