Travis Howerton of RegScale Named Entrepreneur Of The Year® 2026 Mid-Atlantic Finalist by EY US

EY US celebrates ambitious entrepreneurs shaping the future of business

TYSONS CORNER, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Travis Howerton, Co-Founder and CEO of RegScale, has been named a finalist for the Entrepreneur of The Year 2026 Mid-Atlantic Award by Ernst & Young LLP (EY US). Now in its 41st year, the Entrepreneur of The Year program celebrates the bold leaders who disrupt markets through the world’s most ground-breaking companies, revolutionizing industries and uplifting communities. The program honors entrepreneurs whose innovations drive economic growth and help shape the future of business.

An independent panel of judges selected Travis Howerton based on his entrepreneurial spirit, purpose, company growth and lasting impact in building long-term value.

“Being recognized as a finalist is a meaningful reflection of the work our team has put into transforming how organizations approach compliance and cyber risk,” said Travis Howerton, Co-founder and CEO, RegScale. “Compliance has traditionally been treated as a manual, resource-heavy obligation, but we’ve built RegScale to make it a continuous, automated, and strategic business function. This recognition validates our mission to help organizations move faster, reduce risk, and stay ahead of constantly evolving regulatory demands. We’re incredibly grateful to our customers, partners, and employees who continue to push this vision forward with us every day.”

Founded in 2021, RegScale provides an AI-powered Continuous Controls Monitoring (CCM) and compliance automation platform that helps organizations transform compliance from a periodic audit exercise into a real-time operational capability. The company serves highly regulated industries including U.S. federal government, financial services, energy, and critical infrastructure. Under Travis Howerton’s leadership, RegScale has rapidly emerged as a leader in compliance modernization, earning recognition as a 2025 Gartner Cool Vendor, winning the 2025 CODiE Award for Best Compliance Solution, and helping customers reduce audit preparation and response time by up to 60% while accelerating FedRAMP, CMMC, and broader cyber GRC initiatives.

Entrepreneur of The Year honors business leaders for their ingenuity, courage and entrepreneurial spirit. The program celebrates original founders who bootstrapped their business from inception or who raised outside capital to grow their company, transformational CEOs who infused innovation into an existing organization to catapult its trajectory, and multigenerational family business leaders who reimagined a legacy business model to strengthen it for the future.

This year’s Mid-Atlantic finalists represent Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., across all industries, including technology, consumer products, manufacturing, finance and more.

Regional award winners will be announced on June 18 during a special celebration in Washington, D.C. and will become lifetime members of an esteemed community of Entrepreneur Of The Year alumni from around the world. The winners will then be considered by the national judges for the Entrepreneur Of The Year National Awards, which will be presented in November at the annual Strategic Growth Forum^®, where high-growth CEOs, Fortune 1000 executives and investors converge to shape the future of business.

Sponsors

Founded and produced by Ernst & Young LLP, the Entrepreneur Of The Year Awards include presenting sponsors PNC Bank, Cresa, LLC, Marsh USA, SAP, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. In the Mid-Atlantic, sponsors also include regional Platinum sponsor ADP, regional Gold sponsors Cooley and DLA Piper, and regional Silver sponsor Stagedge.

About Entrepreneur Of The Year^®

Founded in 1986, Entrepreneur Of The Year^® has celebrated more than 11,000 ambitious visionaries who are leading successful, dynamic businesses in the US, and it has since expanded to nearly 80 countries and territories globally.

The US program consists of 17 regional programs whose panels of independent judges select the regional award winners every June. Those winners compete for national recognition at the Strategic Growth Forum^® in November where national finalists and award winners are announced. The national overall winner represents the US at the World Entrepreneur Of The Year^® competition. Visit ey.com/us/eoy.

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About RegScale

RegScale is an AI-powered compliance automation platform that transforms regulatory requirements into real-time operational processes. By automating control validation, evidence collection and regulatory reporting, RegScale enables organizations to move from manual compliance processes to continuous controls monitoring. Trusted by organizations across government, financial services, energy and critical infrastructure, RegScale helps security and compliance teams reduce audit fatigue, accelerate delivery and maintain continuous regulatory assurance.