Exiger CEO and leadership

Jennifer Smith is a Chief People & Administrative Officer at Exiger.

Brendan J. Galla is the Chief Product Officer, based in Exiger’s New York office, where he focuses on the firm’s external partnerships and investments. Brendan brings over 12 years of technology and product experience to the Exiger team. His responsibilities include working with existing partners to drive product strategy and bring innovative new products to market. He is also responsible for seeking new opportunities for investment within the risk and compliance industry.

Brendan joined Exiger from SiteCompli, where he was Senior Director of Product Management. In this role, he defined the strategic direction of the firm’s flagship product, a compliance monitoring software utilized by the top property managers in New York City.

Prior to this, Brendan was Director of Client Technologies at Kroll, where he managed all internal and external client-facing applications for the firm’s due diligence practice. Products developed under his leadership at Kroll helped drive double-digit revenue growth and establish the firm’s first successful foray into the anti-corruption and bribery space.

Clewin McPherson is the Chief Information Security Officer, based in the New York office. He focuses on the firm’s global information technology operations, information security, and risk management programs.

Clewin joined Exiger from Ernst & Young, where he was Manager of Information Security, Information Technology Advisory Services. During his time there, Clewin led initiatives with Fortune 100 Banking and Insurance organizations to design, develop, and implement corporate identity and access management services, third-party security risk management programs, and information security governance functions.

As a part of these programs, Clewin developed: IT and security policies, standards, and procedures to better identify, prioritize, and mitigate risk; metrics to provide insight into the performance of security controls; and identity and access management services to centralize identity management, account provisioning, and de-provisioning.