Sigma360 Strengthens Senior Leadership As Demand for AI-Powered Compliance Accelerates

NEW YORK, Sept. 9, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Sigma360®, the definitive AI-powered risk screening and monitoring platform, today announced the expansion of its core leadership team, with the addition of Jeff Williams as Chief Information Security Officer, Brett Manwaring as Head of Advisory and Technology Services, and Philippe Nieman as Senior Account Executive and Mid-Market Leader. These hires further enhance Sigma360's ability to deliver the world's most comprehensive and accurate AI-driven risk intelligence to leading financial institutions, corporates, and government agencies.

Williams, Manwaring and Nieman bring proven expertise in information security, regulatory technology and best practices, and operational scalability for client success. Their leadership will enhance Sigma360's ability to deliver secure, resilient, and future-ready compliance solutions, enabling clients to scale confidently in a quickly evolving regulatory landscape.

• Jeff Williams, CISO, will lead Sigma360's security capabilities, developing, implementing, and managing the firm's information security programs to protect critical data, systems and networks from threats. Williams's rich background in this space covers more than two decades of work at Microsoft, AWS, Secureworks, Twitch, and Oculus across security architecture, anti-malware, privacy governance, threat intelligence, anti-fraud, and law enforcement engagement.
• Brett Manwaring, Head of Advisory & Technology Services, will lead strategic consulting and bring expert guidance to clients on the implementation of financial crime technology. Prior to joining Sigma360, Brett served as a Managing Director at Kroll, K2Integrity and JPMorgan Chase, leading some of the largest transaction lookback engagements under federal regulatory oversight, including a multi-year Federal Reserve Bank-mandated review of 50.6 million transactions that resulted in 20,000+ suspicious activity escalations.
• Philippe Nieman, Mid-Market Leader, will lead Sigma360's efforts to drive growth across the mid-market sector. His extensive background spans financial markets, regulatory technology, private equity banking and asset management. Prior to Sigma360, he led key sales initiatives with prominent regtech companies Workfusion and ComplyAdvantage, delivering specialized compliance solutions and strategic guidance.

"Trust is built on expertise and we are thrilled to welcome these experienced leaders into our business," said Stuart Jones Jr., CEO of Sigma360. "By strengthening our leadership bench, we're further investing in the talent that will help our clients navigate complex risks securely, efficiently, and at scale."

Sigma360 is accelerating innovation in risk screening through strategic expansion of Agentic and Generative AI capabilities, including the AI Investigator Agent, Entity Summary, and upcoming Adverse Media Risk Summary, which save compliance teams millions of unproductive work hours. By strengthening the firm's leadership with key hires in security, advisory services, and mid-market expansion, Sigma360 remains dedicated to delivering next-generation automation solutions that enable faster and more accurate screening operations at scale.

The addition of Williams, Manwaring, and Nieman reflects Sigma360's ongoing commitment to combine world-class talent, comprehensive data, and leading-edge technology. As demand for accurate and explainable intelligence continues to grow, Sigma360 is positioning its platform as the command center for modern risk and compliance teams worldwide.

For more information, visit www.sigma360.com.

About Sigma360

Sigma360's cloud-based data platform has emerged as the definitive choice for point-in-time risk screening and perpetual client monitoring. Underpinned by thousands of fully integrated and hosted data sources and proprietary entity resolution, risk extraction and scoring algorithms, the platform can identify and return direct and network-based entity risk at sub-second speeds. Sigma360's solutions are used by financial institutions, asset managers, professional services firms, fintechs and global corporations seeking to consolidate operations into a singular risk intelligence platform and more efficiently manage the entire client lifecycle.

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