Burch LaPrade

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Biography

Mr. Burch LaPrade is a Co-Founder and serves as Executive Officer, Chief Executive Officer, President & Board Member at Gain Compliance. His first three represent the full spectrum - pure startup,turnaround, and late-stage enterprise - each of which resulted in a successful outcome for investors and owners. He spent the past four years at Workiva, where he most recently held the position of Vice President of Solutions Management. In this role, Burch built a team which was tasked with identifying new and significant revenue opportunities, and its success played an integral part in Workiva's successful IPO in 2015. Prior to Workiva, he spent a little over ten years at two separate startups which relied heavily on bootstrap revenue to fund growth; both resulted in successful outcomes for investors through acquisition. Upon graduation from Yale University (B.A., Economics), he served for four and a half years as a police officer for the city of Berkeley before returning to school to earn his M.B.A. from the University of California. Mr. LaPrade also served as Chief Executive officer at Brightroom.