By: Scott Schwan
Today we announced that three new proven entrepreneurial executives have joined Shujinko.
Jason Kelleghan has joined Shujinko as our first VP of Sales, Rick Harwood as our first VP of
Engineering, and Brett Goodwin as our first VP of Marketing.
Rather than rehash the press release, which you can read here, I wanted to share why this is
meaningful and exciting for me and my co-founder, Matt Wells.
When we started Shujinko back in 2018, we wanted to form a new software company to make
enterprise customers’ lives way easier come IT audit time. Having lived the pain of audit
preparation firsthand for 10+ years together, most recently at Starbucks, – we knew that this
was a space ripe for software automation and SaaS simplicity – across compliance standards
(PCI, SOC 2, NIST, ISO 27001, etc.) and across cloud infrastructure environments (AWS, Azure,
hybrid).
There is a great distance, however, between having an idea and developing that into an
enterprise-class product offering and high growth software business. For a startup to succeed
against the odds, one needs a team of leaders who are experts in their respective domains and
who are passionate, creative, and driven builders.
Matt and I are very excited to have Jason, Rick, and Brett join us at Shujinko – as we climb our
way up the mountain together as one great company and team.
– Scott
