Vital Insight is led by former Big Four accounting firm executives with extensive hands-on compliance and risk consulting experience, together with seasoned entrepreneurs, and sales professionals. We are highly skilled at helping organizations transform the significant expense of Enterprise Risk Management, Sarbanes-Oxley, audit, regulatory compliance, and other requirements into a true corporate governance asset.

Vital Insight senior management team:
Jack Long — Chairman
Alan White — President & Chief Executive Officer
Mark Prentice — Vice President of Products
Ryan Sawyer — Vice President of Professional Services
Tom Scanland — Vice President of Sales



Jack Long — Chairman
Jack is an experienced entrepreneur who provides leadership, oversight, and direction for the company. Mr. Long also provides specific insight and guidance into the company’s higher education product and marketing activities. In addition to his role at Vital Insight, Mr. Long serves as Chairman of PeopleAdmin, Inc., an Austin based software business that builds and sells hiring automation software to higher education customers. The company’s client list includes over 350 higher education institutions.

Prior to co-founding PeopleAdmin in 2000, Mr. Long was a co-founder and Chairman of Lone Star Overnight, L.P., a regional air express transportation company. From its formation in 1991, LSO has grown into a business employing over 600 people and serving more than 15,000 business customers in Texas and Oklahoma. In 1994, Mr. Long was selected as an Entrepreneur of the Year in the Ernst & Young central Texas Entrepreneur of the Year award program for his work with Lone Star Overnight. Lone Star Overnight was recognized in Inc. magazine’s 1996 Inc. 500 list of fastest growing privately held businesses in the country.

Prior to 1990, Mr. Long founded a real estate development firm and was a Vice President of Chase Bank — Texas in Houston. He earned a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Richmond, and an MBA from Vanderbilt University.


Alan White — President & Chief Executive Officer
Alan is a former Ernst & Young executive and an Enterprise Risk Management and compliance expert. While at Ernst & Young, Alan led over ten Sarbanes-Oxley compliance and attestation projects. Prior to Ernst & Young, he spent three years as an executive at Arthur Andersen, LLP where he had local leadership responsibilities for the firm’s Business Systems Risk Management and Project Risk Management Service Lines. Alan has also held operating and audit positions at various Fortune 500 companies. He holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University and an MBA in Entrepreneurship & Private Equity Finance from The University of Texas at Austin.


Mark Prentice — Vice President of Products
Mark is responsible for leading the design and development of the company’s compliance and risk management software solutions. In addition to his technical expertise, Mark brings with him extensive experience as an executive at PricewaterhouseCoopers and Arthur Andersen, where he led numerous Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, revenue assurance, and finance effectiveness projects. Mark holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting Information Systems from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech).


Ryan Sawyer — Vice President of Professional Services
Ryan is responsible for all implementation, training, and consulting services around the Vital Insight suite of products. Prior to joining Vital Insight, Ryan served as an executive at Arthur Andersen, and more recently at Protiviti Inc., where he gained extensive experience delivering ERM, Sarbanes-Oxley compliance, internal audit, project management, and systems implementation services. Ryan holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Computer Information Systems from James Madison University as well as the Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA), and Associate Business Continuity Planner (ABCP) certifications.


Tom Scanland — Vice President of Sales
Tom leads Vital Insight’s sales and marketing efforts. He has over 20 years of experience building world class sales organizations at early stage companies as well as billion dollar organizations. Tom’s teams have consistently met and exceeded quarterly revenue targets. Prior to Vital Insight, Tom held sales management positions with such companies as Autonomy, Documentum, Metaphor Systems, and Intergraph Corporation. Tom holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Maryland.