Chas Ballew is a co-founder and Chief Executive Officer at Aptible, a security management platform for small companies.
Education
Chas Ballew graduated with Magna Cum Laude from Princeton University, with an A.B. in Psychology in 2006. Ballew also received the Edward E. Jones Memorial Prize for best thesis in social psychology. Ballew’s thesis published as Ballew, C. C., & Todorov, A. (2007). Ballew was elected to Sigma Xi.
Ballew also graduated from the University of Michigan Law School in 2009. Ballew was a Contributing Editor at Journal of Law Reform, a Research Assistant for Professor Bridget Mary McCormack, Tutor, Mergers and Acquisitions, and a Graduate Student Instructor in the Department of Psychology from 2007-2009.
Early career
Ballew was a Law Clerk at Federal Public Defender in 2007. Ballew worked on Second, Fourth, and Fifth Amendment constitutional issues. Ballew drafted a petition for writ of certiorari in United States v. Lopez, 482 F.3d 1067 (9th Cir. 2007). Ballew was a former Associate at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati in 2008. Ballew worked on VC-backed startup financings, and developed expertise on federal securities regulations and won an award for work on pro bono issues.
In 2009, before co-founding Aptible, Ballew was a former Assistant to the General Counsel at the United States Department of the Army. Ballew served on active duty as a regulatory and litigation specialist in the U.S. Army Office of the General Army HQ litigation, including review of filings and coordination of agency positions in several Supreme Court cases, multiple federal appeals cases. Counsel Honors Program.
Aptible
Chas Ballew as the Chief Executive Officer and Frank Macreery as the Chief Technology Officer, co-founded Aptible, a San-Francisco based company providing consultation for security standards and regulatory compliance for technology startups in the United States in April 2013. Aptible provides compliance support for standards like HIPAA, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and NIST 800-53.
Aptible helps companies automate the compliance process by providing a language agnostic framework so developers can use any programming language for development. Aptible claims to provide HIPAA (Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) compliance at a fraction of the cost and effort of traditional compliance consultancies.
Aptible has participated in the Y Combinator Summer Demo Day in August 2014.
Product
Aptible provides Comply, a software platform dedicated to map, automate, and remind companies to keep their information security management more efficient. It provides a framework of procedures and policies for particular protocol compliance. The platform helps companies analyze their operation and Information Security Management System (ISMS) to make appropriate changes for security compliance protocols.
It guides companies to maintain revisions of the changes in an organizational security system to stay compliant. In early days, Aptible focused its service primarily on HIPAA compliance service for cloud-based applications, which allowed it to become economical in the field.
Aptible’s “Deploy” is a docker container hosting platform, which supports developers to deploy Docker-based containers in a secure environment. Deploy offers scalable security standard compliant deployment service for databases and applications with many security developed features. Deploy helps developers maintain application compliance standards like HIPAA, ISO 27001, SOC 2, and GDPR.
It offers Aptible Enclave, a Docker-based platform that enables secure deployment into private AWS environments; and Aptible Gridiron, a security management platform for cloud-based software engineering teams. The company also serves digital health companies.
Funding rounds
In August 2014, Aptible raised $120,000 in a seed round from investors Y Combinator, Rock Health, Peter Livingston, Palm Drive Capital, and Fresh VC. In June 2019, Aptible raised $12 million in a Series A round, led by Maverick Capital with the participation from Western Technology Investment, Thrive Capital, and Tamarind Hill. Aptible intends to use the funds to launch Aptible Comply, a software-as-a-service security management platform.
Aptible has raised a total of $12.1 million in funding. Aptible has $5.6 million in estimated revenue annually. Aptible competes with Netwrix, TrueVault, and Lepide.