Adam Markowitz is the co-founder and CEO of Drata, a trust management platform that champions AI-driven automation to streamline governance, risk, and compliance for over 7,000 companies across the globe, including Calendly, Notion, and Lemonade, among many others. Prior to Drata, Adam was the founder and CEO of Portfolium, an academic portfolio network for students and alumni to visually showcase their work and projects directly to employers, faculty, and fellow students/alumni. Portfolium was acquired by Instructure (NYSE:INST) in 2019.
He also worked as an aerospace engineer designing, analyzing and testing liquid rocket engines for NASA’s next generation space launch vehicle as well as the Space Shuttle Main Engine. He was most recently noted as one of San Diego’s Most Influential People for 2024. Adam earned a B.S. in Structural Engineering from UC San Diego and an M.S. in Astronautical Engineering from the University of Southern California.