The people behind Pulse Governance

Built by controls, systems, and GRC practitioners.

The Enterprise Integrity Assessment is designed for buyers who need more than a maturity quiz. It is backed by public accounting experience, enterprise systems leadership, operating discipline, and GRC practitioner review.

If you are reviewing the Enterprise Integrity Assessment, this page explains who built and advises the work behind it. The goal is simple: help organizations identify where execution evidence may hold, where it may be missing, and where deeper workflow review should begin.

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Credibility has to cover the full loop.

Pulse Governance sits where documented controls meet execution. That requires more than software. It requires practitioner judgment, enterprise systems knowledge, operating discipline, and a clear boundary around what an assessment can and cannot claim.

Controls and risk lensPublic accounting, risk assurance, and executive operating experience shape the way the assessment frames control and execution exposure.

Enterprise systems lensArchitecture, integration, cloud, security, and data experience shape how Pulse can be conformed to real workflows.

GRC practitioner lensRegulated-industry experience shapes the methodology, findings, claim boundaries, and framework language.

Operational lensFinance, analytics, product execution, custody, and process discipline shape how the work gets delivered and scaled.

The team behind the assessment.

The Enterprise Integrity Assessment brings together operators, technologists, and practitioners with experience across risk, controls, enterprise systems, regulated environments, and execution governance.

Practitioner credibility behind the methodology

Jesse Hart, MS, PMP

GRC Practitioner and Methodology Advisor

Jesse anchors the GRC and framework credibility behind this work. He brings 27 years across regulated industries including pharmaceutical, biotech, medical device, regulated software, clinical trials, healthcare technology, and financial services. His background includes FDA 21 CFR Part 11, HIPAA, GDPR, ISO 9001, ISO 27001, consent decree remediation, quality systems, vendor risk, AI governance, ISO 42001, NIST AI RMF, and evidence-ready compliance programs. For Pulse Governance, Jesse advises on diagnostic methodology, framework claim boundaries, field-level evidence requirements, finding structure, and the practitioner language needed for regulated buyers.

27 years regulated industries GRC and AI governance ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 HIPAA, GDPR, FDA Part 11 Finding and methodology discipline

Arvind Prem Krishnan

Controls and GRC Practitioner Advisor

Arvind brings practitioner experience across information security, GRC, SOX, ISO 27001, general computing controls, IT infrastructure audits, business continuity, data privacy, internal audits, external audits, risk assessments, and remediation.

His background includes PwC, ANZ, HCL Technologies, and Diligent, with experience leading security compliance audits, ISO 27001 surveillance and recertification audits, client audit response, control assessment, remediation support, and senior-management risk reporting.

At Pulse Governance, Arvind strengthens the client-facing practitioner layer, helping translate workflow evidence gaps, control concerns, and remediation priorities into language GRC, Internal Audit, compliance, and risk teams can act on.

GRC ISO 27001 SOX IT Controls Internal Audit Support Client Audit Readiness Remediation Risk Reporting

Edward J. Beltran, CPA

CEO and Creator of Pulse Governance

Ed leads the strategy, category development, and commercial direction for Pulse Governance. He began his career in risk assurance at Arthur Andersen and PwC, with a focus on internal and systems controls. As CEO of Fierce, he has led the evolution from enterprise leadership development into data-enabled performance, Biometric Intelligence, and execution governance. His work connects public accounting, enterprise operations, innovation, and the practical question at the center of Pulse Governance: whether execution matches approved intent.

CPA Arthur Andersen and PwC Enterprise operator Pulse creator

Saravanan Venkatesan

Head of Technology

Saravanan leads the technology path behind Pulse Governance. His background spans enterprise architecture, cloud engineering, application integration, data platforms, zero-trust security, legacy modernization, SDLC, ERP, CRM, and large-scale enterprise systems. He brings hands-on experience across healthcare, retail, telecom, finance, and enterprise applications, including D365, Salesforce, Azure, data platforms, and compliance-sensitive technology environments. His role is to translate governance requirements into systems that can operate at workflow scale.

Enterprise architecture Systems integration Cloud and data platforms Security and compliance

Geeta Prem Krishnan

Head of Operations

Geeta brings the operating discipline required to move Pulse Governance from concept into execution. Her background includes finance, operations, technology, data analytics, project execution, reporting, forecasting, agile delivery, and product build leadership. At Fierce, she has played a central role in building Pulse by Fierce from idea into product reality and now supports the operational systems, access discipline, process rigor, and delivery coordination needed as Pulse Governance moves toward regulated-buyer workflows.

Finance and operations Data analytics Product execution Process discipline

How the work comes together

The assessment is not positioned as an audit opinion or certification. It is a response-based starting point that helps identify likely evidence gaps, workflow exposure, and where deeper validation should begin.

Assessment and findingsGRC practitioner input shapes the domains, findings, claim boundaries, and framework language.
Workflow and evidence requirementsRules, evidence conditions, and field requirements are identified at the workflow level so Pulse can be conformed to the actual environment.
Technology and replayPulse technology evaluates whether available records can support what the workflow claims about authorization, execution, evidence, and replayability.
Operational deliveryPulse/Fierce controls the operating environment, access, data custody approach, and delivery process needed to support regulated-buyer review.

What this page supports

This page supports the Enterprise Integrity Assessment by giving GRC, Internal Audit, compliance, and risk buyers visibility into the people behind the assessment, the technology, and the practitioner review. The assessment itself is response-based. It does not certify, attest, prove that controls operated, or predict the outcome of an audit, regulatory review, or customer assessment. Evidence-based validation requires review of records, workflow evidence, or execution artifacts.

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