Chas Ballew
| Chas Ballew | |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur, CEO |
|---|---|
| Known for | Co-founder of Aptible, founder and CEO of Conveyor |
| Education | Princeton University (undergraduate), University of Michigan Law School (J.D.) |
Chas Ballew is an American entrepreneur, attorney, and software executive. He is the co-founder of Aptible, a DevOps and compliance platform for cloud application deployment, and the founder and CEO of Conveyor, an AI-powered platform that automates customer security reviews and compliance documentation sharing for B2B companies.
Career
Early career and military service
Ballew began his entrepreneurial pursuits early, running small software development shops during high school and college.[1] He graduated from Princeton University and later earned a law degree from the University of Michigan Law School. Following his legal education, Ballew served four years on active duty in the United States Army as a lawyer at the Pentagon, where he focused on regulatory law and developed expertise in security and compliance matters.[2] That combination of legal training and hands-on military compliance work would later inform his approach to building software tools for regulated industries.
Aptible
In 2014, Ballew co-founded Aptible, a DevOps and compliance hosting platform designed to help B2B SaaS companies deploy cloud applications securely and pass compliance audits. Aptible provides infrastructure that supports any language, framework, or tech stack that can run in a Docker container, and integrates with existing engineering tools. The platform addresses enterprise requirements for reliability, security, and compliance, offering features such as a 99.95% uptime guarantee and the ability to self-host within a company's own AWS environment.[3]
Conveyor
In 2021, Ballew spun Conveyor out of Aptible to address a recurring problem he had observed: the time-consuming process of completing customer security questionnaires during B2B sales. Conveyor uses generative AI to automate and scale security reviews and RFP responses. The company's core product, the Trust Center Agent, is designed to autonomously handle security documentation sharing, respond to vendor questionnaires, and coordinate team collaboration on compliance workflows.
Conveyor raised $12.5 million in a Series A funding round in October 2023 led by Cervin Ventures, bringing its total funding at that time to $19 million.[4] In April 2025, Conveyor introduced an AI agent called "Sue," designed to handle security documentation sharing, questionnaires, and team collaboration for Fortune 1000 companies.[5] In June 2025, the company raised a $20 million Series B round to further develop its agentic AI capabilities for customer trust automation.[6]
Among Conveyor's noted enterprise partnerships is a collaboration with Alteryx, in which the two companies worked together to accelerate and streamline customer security review workflows, reducing the friction that procurement and security teams face during vendor evaluations.[7] Ballew has also publicly stated that a central goal for 2026 is to eliminate the security questionnaire as a standard business process entirely, replacing it with AI-driven, automated trust verification that operates without manual intervention.[8]
References
- ↑ "Conveyor: Interview With Co-Founder & CEO Chas Ballew About The Automated Trust Platform". 'Pulse 2.0}'. Retrieved 2025-03-19.
- ↑ "How to Reduce Burnout on Security Teams Without Slowing Down the Business". 'CISO Series}'. Retrieved 2025-03-19.
- ↑ "Aptible". 'Aptible}'. Retrieved 2025-03-19.
- ↑ "Conveyor raises $12.5M to automate security reviews using LLMs". 'TechCrunch}'. Retrieved 2025-03-19.
- ↑ "Meet Sue, the AI Agent for Customer Trust Overhauling Security Review Workflows for Fortune 1000 Companies". 'PR Newswire}'. Retrieved 2025-03-19.
- ↑ "Conveyor Raises $20M Series B to Lead the Agentic AI Race in Customer Trust Automation for Security Reviews and RFPs". 'PR Newswire}'. Retrieved 2025-06-19.
- ↑ "Alteryx and Conveyor Speed Up Customer Security". 'LinkedIn}'. Retrieved 2025-06-19.
- ↑ "Killing Security Questionnaires with AI Automation". 'LinkedIn}'. Retrieved 2025-06-19.