Founder, Chief Collaborative Officer
David Lawrence is the Founder and Chief Collaborative Officer of RANE. He previously served for approximately 20 years as Associate General Counsel and Managing Director at Goldman Sachs. During his tenure, David formed and was the global head of the Business Intelligence Group. His role covered a wide range of legal, regulatory, diligence and transactional responsibilities for the firm, as well as advising Goldman’s clients directly. David served on a number of the firm’s global risk-management and investment committees, including its Commitments and Capital Committees. During his tenure, David worked with his industry counterparts to lead in the development of Wall Street’s first design and implementation of controls and technology to safeguard against money-laundering, illicit finance, terrorism financing, foreign corrupt practices and violations of economic sanctions. In 2013, David received the FBI Director’s Award for his efforts in combating international terrorism.
Over the years, David and Goldman Sachs were jointly awarded over 20 risk management patents. While at Goldman Sachs, he helped create and lead the firm’s formation of Regulatory Data Corp (RDC), in which 20 of the leading global banks invested. RDC (www.rdc.com) provides data, technology and risk management solutions to the private sector in wide ranging areas including: anti-money laundering, fraud, corruption and illicit finance, as well as other enterprise risk-relevant fields. Until 2014, David served as a member of the company’s board. RDC was acquired by Vista Equity Partners in 2016 and purchased by Moody’s Corporation for $700 million in 2020.
Prior to working at Goldman Sachs, David served for 10 years as an Assistant US Attorney, in the Southern District of New York. During this tenure, he served as the Deputy Chief of the Criminal Division, Chief of the Public Corruption and General Crimes Units, and as the office’s first Chief Ethics Officer. David serves as a member of the Board of Trustees for the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Foundation (City University of New York) and as a member of the Steering Committee for the Global Cyber Institute. David received a B.A. from Brandeis University in Urban Studies, Magna Cum Laude with Highest Honors. He attended the University of Texas School of Law and received his J.D. from New York University School of Law.
Chief Executive Officer
Steve Roycroft is the Chief Executive Officer of RANE. He is an accomplished business leader with over 20 years of operating experience that ranges from launching start-ups to running multi-billion dollar global enterprises. These include building and commercializing businesses in the Financial Services, GRC, Technology, Healthcare, and Media industries.
Earlier in his career, Steve led the sales and commercial efforts for CCBN (Corporate Communications Broadcast Network), a pioneering network-based financial information and technology company. After seven years of rapid growth, CCBN was successfully sold to Thomson Reuters and became part of its Corporate Services division. Over the next eight years, Steve led this division serving as the Global Managing Director. During that period, the business substantially scaled to serve more than 7,000 companies globally with information and workflow solutions for finance, compliance, research and communication professionals. Steve then went on to lead the day-to-day operations of inVentiv Health Commercial, a diversified information, technology, and services company serving the global life sciences and healthcare sectors. With over 13,000 employees inVentiv is a market leader in providing drug development support services and all aspects of commercializing brands for the pharmaceutical industry.
He currently serves as a senior advisor and board member at FRT-Financial Recovery Technologies and Smarsh Inc. Steve is a graduate from Stonehill College with a B.S. in Business Administration.
Chief Financial Officer
Chief Client Officer
Chief Marketing Officer
Chief Product Officer
Chief Technology Officer
Executive Director, Product Management
Executive Director, Stratfor Center for Applied Geopolitics
Executive Director, Safety + Security
Executive Director, Medical + Psychological
Senior Director, Data Operations
Director, Information Security
Director of Business Intelligence
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