20 years of enterprise compliance at the Fortune 100 level — now applied to AI governance
Dave Cooper spent 20 years as a Vice President at one of the largest US banks, where the security and compliance programs he led protected $100T+ in annual transaction throughput across retail banking, commercial payments, and institutional wire systems — spanning a workforce of 200,000+ and approximately one million technology assets. He established multiple governance and compliance functions from the ground up and earned 5 patents for innovation in security automation. His work produced multiple industry firsts — including the first digital identity provider natively trusted by the US Federal Government and the DoD. A contributing member to multiple national information security standards, he represented the firm on global standards bodies worldwide.
Dave was responsible for assessing and implementing AI/ML information security technologies enterprise-wide — prioritizing evaluations, managing implementations, and setting the security posture for AI adoption at scale. He owned the policy stack across IS Risk Management, Data Protection, Cryptography, and Identity and Access Management — including exactly the type of governance artifacts this tool generates: policies, SOPs, implementation checklists, evidence packages, and audit narratives.
He delivered 100% closure on an OCC Consent Order across 550+ deliverables and terabytes of audit evidence, served as NIST/FedRAMP domain delegate, and spent 12 years leading reverse audits of third-party service providers.
The governance discipline built into every control in this framework comes from two decades of building, auditing, and defending programs under federal regulatory scrutiny — not from theory.