Innovation comes in many areas and compliance professionals need to not only be ready for it but embrace it. Join Tom Fox, the Voice of Compliance as he visits with top innovative minds, thinkers and creators in the award-winning Innovation in Compliance podcast. In this episode, host Tom Fox visits with s Diego Panama, new CEO of LogicGate.
They discuss his career from Microsoft product management to scaling Live Ramp to an IPO, building go-to-market at Olo, and joining LogicGate through a planned CEO transition with co-founder Matt Kunkel. Panama describes his focus on scaling operations while preserving a customer-first, values-driven culture, and sharpening the company’s positioning as the leading AI GRC platform for enterprise. The discussion highlights AI’s role in moving GRC from check-the-box defense to real-time, strategic enablement, including holistic risk visibility across silos, third-party risk blind spots, and always-on monitoring. Panama explains LogicGate’s workflow agents and the path toward orchestrated, autonomous GRC with humans setting risk appetite, emphasizes data access, quality, and governance, and outlines product UX evolution from no-code to prompt-driven configuration. He notes boards’ increased attention to GRC due to AI risks and encourages students and practitioners to stay curious and aligned to business outcomes.
Key Highlights
- Why LogicGate and GRC
- AI Makes GRC Strategic
- Holistic Risk and Third Parties
- Workflow Agents Explained
- Data Access and Governance
- Big Tech Lessons on Focus
- Staying Current in Tech
Resources
Diego Panama on LinkedIn
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