Nate Lee — CEO
I'm the founder and CEO of TrustMind. Security questionnaires are a broken relic of how third-party risk used to work. We're automating them away so teams can focus on actual risk. After 20+ years in security including serving as CISO at Tradeshift, a hypergrowth unicorn B2B SaaS fintech where I secured over a trillion dollars in global trade for F500 companies, I got tired of watching my team waste thousands of hours copy-pasting the same questionnaire answers they've given a hundred times. Enterprise tools charge a fortune and still make you wait days. Teams hack together solutions with ChatGPT and hit the same rough edges every time. We built TrustMind to make the problem go away. We offer a free tier because every team deserves access to automation that actually works, not just the ones with seven-figure software budgets. My background spans startups and the Fortune 50 in engineering, architecture, and leadership roles across Security, SRE, DevOps/Platform Engineering, IT, and CI/CD. That breadth is what makes TrustMind different. We built a product that actually handles the chaos of real-world questionnaires, not just a demo that works on the easy ones. Previously, I also founded Cloudsec.ai to enable software-first organizations align their security and AI programs with business goals.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned leader in SaaS and Fintech security.
Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Experience: 17 yrs 8 mos
Skills
- Risk Management
- Information Security
Career Highlights
- Over 20 years of experience in security leadership.
- Founded TrustMind to automate third-party risk management.
- Led security for over a trillion dollars in global trade.
Work Experience
TrustMind
Co-Founder and CEO (2 mos)
Cox Exponential (CX2)
Venture Advisor (1 yr 3 mos)
Scale Venture Partners
Executive in Residence (1 yr 7 mos)
O'Reilly
Course Author (2 mos)
Cloud Security Alliance
AI Technology Risk Leadership (1 yr 5 mos)
MileIQ
Chief Information Security Officer (1 yr 4 mos)
Cloudsec.ai
Founder and Chief Information Security Officer (2 yrs 3 mos)
Beyond Work
Advisor (2 yrs 3 mos)
Merritt College Cybersecurity Program
CISE Program Advisory Board Member and Guest Lecturer (4 yrs)
Tradeshift
Chief Information Security Officer and Head of Technical Operations (7 yrs 4 mos)
Head of Technical Operations (1 yr)
Senior Director of Platform Operations (9 mos)
Fuze
Senior Director of Operations (2 yrs)
Director of Platform Operations (1 yr 2 mos)
Senior Architect (5 mos)
Target Corporation
Engineer XV (1 yr 8 mos)
Engineer XIII (1 yr 1 mo)
Education
at University of Minnesota
