About

Why Vetrail exists, and who built it this way.

Mission

Vetrail exists to make risk management something a growing company can actually run - both the vendors you depend on and the risks inside your own business - on a schedule, with real evidence behind every answer, and without hiring a risk function to keep it moving.

Most companies at this stage handle it the way they handle everything they have not scaled into yet: a spreadsheet, a folder of PDFs, and someone's memory of when the last SOC 2 report came in. That is a set of good intentions with no schedule attached, and it holds up until the week everyone is busy.

Vision

A risk function that runs itself. Tiering, assessment cadence, reminders and escalation happen on a schedule rather than depending on anyone remembering to chase them, across two registers: the vendors you rely on, and the operational risks you carry yourself. That second one is the part most tools of this kind do not offer at all.

It is built for teams that have outgrown the spreadsheet but are not hiring a risk function yet - the stage where the work has become real and there is still nobody whose job it is.

The goal is that when a customer, an auditor or an investor finally asks, the answer already exists and has been current for months. Being ready is a consequence of the work having happened.

Resource

Vetrail's approach to risk comes from Ayo Akintayo, Vetrail's Chief Risk Officer and Chief Information Security Officer, who has spent over a decade building and running technology and operational risk functions across banking, fintech, and large-scale retail.

Before Vetrail, Ayo served as Chief Risk & Growth Officer at a technology-driven lending platform, where he designed and implemented a complete technology and operational risk framework from zero - risk registers, control libraries, independent assessment processes, and Board-level reporting - aligned to NIST, ISO 27001, and PCI DSS. He has also led second-line technology risk oversight for a large, multi-thousand-location retail enterprise, where a redesigned vulnerability governance program cut active enterprise vulnerabilities by 62% in three months, and held operational risk leadership roles at one of Nigeria's largest banks.

That background is why Vetrail is built the way it is: risk tiering based on real business impact, an assessment cadence that doesn't depend on anyone remembering to run it, and evidence exports built to satisfy the questions an actual auditor or enterprise security team will ask - not a checklist assembled after the fact.

Ayo is CRISC-certified (ISACA), holds an MBA in Technology Leadership (Honours) from the Schulich School of Business at York University, and an MSc in Data Science Management. He is also a Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP) and has working expertise in OSFI's technology and cyber risk expectations, including OSFI B-13.

Security accountability

As CISO, Ayo is the named accountable individual for Vetrail's own information security - see the Trust page for what that covers today, and what's next.