Brent Cole

CEO, GRC Mitratech

Last Reviewed: September 19, 2026

Executive Summary

Brent Cole is CEO of the GRC business at Mitratech, the Austin software company that sells legal, compliance and HR systems to large enterprises. Mitratech runs an unusual structure for a company of its type: alongside a group chief executive, Mike Williams, it names three business-unit CEOs, one each for Legal Solutions, GRC and HR Solutions. Cole holds the GRC seat, covering the governance, risk and compliance portfolio — ethics hotlines, compliance training, enterprise and cyber risk, business continuity, third-party risk and policy management. Beyond that title, Mitratech publishes nothing about him, and this profile records only what the company itself states.

Career Highlights

• CEO, GRC at Mitratech, one of three business-unit chief executives named on the company’s leadership page.
• Leads the governance, risk and compliance portfolio at a company reporting more than 28,000 customers in over 160 countries, including 72% of the Fortune 100, 42% of the Fortune 500 and 70% of the AmLaw 200.
• Sits on a leadership team of ten under group CEO Mike Williams, alongside the CEOs of Mitratech’s Legal Solutions and HR Solutions businesses.

Professional Journey

Mitratech was founded in 1987 and has spent the intervening decades assembling what it describes as an end-to-end portfolio for legal, compliance and HR professionals. It is headquartered in Austin, Texas, with international offices, and it is private — which matters for this profile, because it means there is no proxy statement or annual report carrying officer biographies, and the company’s own leadership page is the only first-party record of who runs what.

That page divides the business into three: Legal Solutions, GRC and HR Solutions, each with its own chief executive reporting into group CEO Mike Williams. Cole holds the GRC seat. The GRC portfolio is the compliance-and-risk half of Mitratech’s business, spanning ethics and whistleblower hotlines, compliance training, enterprise risk management, cyber and IT risk, business continuity planning, third-party risk and policy management — the machinery by which a regulated organisation demonstrates to an auditor that it has controls and that they operate.

Nothing further about his career is established. Mitratech carries no biography for him, and the only appointment announcement located in its press centre relating to the GRC unit is dated October 2020 and names two different people. Aggregator sites offer a detailed career — a Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi degree, a series of internal promotions at Mitratech and four earlier titles at Accruent — but all of it traces to a single scraped source, and this project does not treat that as evidence. Those claims are recorded in the internal verification notes so that a later pass can recognise them if they resurface, but they are not asserted here. If a reliable account of his background is needed, it will have to come from Mitratech.

Education

No education record was established for Brent Cole. Mitratech publishes no biography for him, the company is privately held and files no proxy statement, and no primary or first-party source stating an institution or degree was located. Aggregator profiles do carry a degree claim; it is unsourced and is not repeated here. The field is left empty rather than filled from scraped data.