An operator’s notebook on running regulated technology services. Cybersecurity, AI in services delivery, what it actually takes to lead a platform, and the long conversation between founders and the PE firms that back them. Written for the next generation of operators who will build this category honestly. Published when something’s worth saying.
Four tracks running in parallel. Insights from the field, leadership, platform operation, and the founders who stayed.
Four questions that cut through the complexity of IT, security, and compliance — from an operator who has sat on every side of the conversation.
I’ve been a founder. I know what it costs to sell something you built. Now I run platforms. The work is bridging what the founder built and what the platform needs, without losing what made the company worth buying.
Gary Simat, the operating thesisTwenty-plus years operating in technology services. Performive in the cloud and infrastructure era, a managed cloud business taken from partner-driven growth through the SoftLayer-era credentialing and on to an exit. RedZone now, in the regulated platform era, one accountable partner for IT, security, and compliance for regulated organizations that cannot afford to get it wrong.
Few CEOs in this niche have lived both sides of this arc of the category. Fewer still have sat in both the founder's chair and the PE platform CEO's chair. That dual perspective is the most differentiated thing about this voice. The writing here is what I have learned worth sharing, for the operators, the founders considering their next move, the talent looking for a platform worth joining, and the partners thinking about how regulated-industry technology services should be built.
Read by the operators, founders, and PE partners shaping regulated technology services. Twenty-plus years of operator-truth, delivered as it lands.
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