People

The team

Senior practitioners; no offshore second-tier delivery. The people you meet at the start of an engagement are the people who do the work.

Liam O'Connor

Co-founder & CEO

Liam is a former information security manager from the Irish financial services sector. He co-founded GetCheckmark in 2019 after watching a third compliance vendor renewal that didn't change a single behaviour. Sets commercial direction and customer-facing strategy.

Focus: Commercial strategy, Financial services, Compliance

Aoife Murphy

Co-founder & CTO

Aoife leads the engineering function. Background in enterprise SaaS engineering with prior roles at two Dublin-based unicorns; sets the technical architecture and oversees the certification-engine platform.

Focus: Platform engineering, SaaS architecture, Certification engine

Cormac Walsh

VP of Compliance

Cormac leads the compliance and framework-mapping function. Background includes seven years as a SOC 2 auditor at a Big-Four firm and four years in-house as a GRC director. CISA, CISSP, CRISC.

Focus: SOC 2, ISO 27001, Audit-defensibility, Framework mapping

Sinéad Ryan

Head of Customer Success

Sinéad leads the customer-success function and the European go-to-market. Background in enterprise software customer success in the security and identity spaces; based in Dublin with extensive on-site time across customer locations.

Focus: Customer success, Enterprise rollout, Identity integration

Tomás Brennan

Head of Security & Trust

Tomás owns our internal security posture and the trust-centre operations. Eleven years in security engineering including periods at two Irish-government CSIRT operations. CISSP, ISO 27001 Lead Auditor, owner of our SOC 2 Type II programme.

Focus: Trust & security, SOC 2, ISO 27001, Customer security questionnaires

Working with us

We grow the team carefully. New joiners go through a structured onboarding that includes time on customer audit calls before any independent customer responsibility — being part of a customer's audit prep is the fastest way to absorb how the platform actually has to work.

For roles see our careers page. We are always glad to hear from senior practitioners even when we are not actively recruiting.