Nate Lee
Co-Founder, CEO
Nate is the co-founder and CEO of Evident. He has spent 20+ years in security, starting as an engineer at a Fortune 50 and later running security at Tradeshift, where the platform processed over a trillion dollars in global trade.
Before Evident, Nate was Executive-in-Residence at Scale Venture Partners, where he evaluated early-stage security companies, and ran his own consulting practice at cloudsec.ai helping SaaS companies build pragmatic security programs. He also hosts the TPRM Podcast, interviewing practitioners about the messy reality of third-party risk management.
He started Evident because he spent a decade filling out SIGs, CAIQs, custom spreadsheets, and every vendor portal that's ever existed — and was convinced the work could be automated without the answers getting worse.
Experience
- Former CISO at Tradeshift (platform processed >$1T in global trade)
- Executive-in-Residence at Scale Venture Partners
- 20+ years in security, from Fortune 50 engineer to director-level leadership
- Host of the TPRM Podcast (tprmpodcast.com)
- Founder of cloudsec.ai, a security consulting practice for SaaS companies
Topics
- Security questionnaire automation
- Third-party risk management
- Vendor risk assessment
- CISO leadership
- SOC 2 compliance
- Cloud security
- B2B SaaS security programs
Elsewhere
- cloudsec.ai — Nate's security consulting practice, with 40+ articles on pragmatic security for SaaS companies.
- TPRM Podcast — Interviews with practitioners on the messy reality of third-party risk management.
- TPRM Podcast on YouTube — Video episodes of the TPRM Podcast.
- Scale Venture Partners — Listed on the Scale VP team page as Executive-in-Residence.