ADAM MARKOWITZ

CEO and Co-Founder Drata

Adam Markowitz is CEO and Co-founder of Drata, a security and compliance automation platform that helps businesses earn and keep the trust of their users, customers, partners and prospects. Drata allows companies to streamline more than 10 compliance frameworks through continuous, automated control monitoring and evidence collection.

Under Markowitz’s leadership, Drata became one of the fastest SaaS startups to reach a $1 billion valuation and unicorn status, about 10 months since coming out of stealth.

Prior to Drata, Markowitz was the founder and CEO of Portfolium, an academic portfolio network for students and alumni to visually showcase their work and projects directly to employers, faculty and students/alumni. Portfolium was acquired by Instructure in 2019.

Markowitz also worked as an aerospace engineer designing, analyzing and testing liquid rocket engines for NASA’s next generation space launch vehicle as well as the Space Shuttle Main Engine.