Team - Paragex | Founders and Leadership

Sofia Mendez

Co-founder and CEO

Former Head of Regulatory Affairs at a $4B regional bank where she managed prudential and consumer compliance programs. Holds a J.D. with a focus on financial regulation and CRCM certification. Built Paragex after her team missed a FFIEC circular update during examination preparation.

David Reinholt

Co-founder and CTO

Previously a principal NLP engineer at a legal tech firm where he built clause extraction models for M&A due diligence. Holds an M.S. in Computational Linguistics from Carnegie Mellon. Designed the transformer-based parsing architecture that achieves 97.3% clause extraction accuracy on regulatory texts.

Priya Chakraborty

Head of Compliance Products

GRC implementation consultant for 8 years at a Big Four firm, deploying Archer and ServiceNow frameworks at US and European financial institutions. Led the product requirements for Paragex's examination evidence package feature and integration partnerships with GRC platform vendors.

Working at Paragex

How we operate

Small team, real depth

Every person at Paragex has direct working experience in compliance, NLP, or financial systems - not general tech background applied to a new domain. We hire slowly and expect high individual ownership.

Practitioner-first product decisions

Before building a feature, we talk to the compliance officer who will use it. Product decisions come from observed workflows, not assumed use cases. We spend time in bank compliance departments, not just reading requirements docs.

Remote with deliberate in-person time

The team operates across San Francisco and New York. We meet in person quarterly for strategic planning and twice a year for full-team sprints. The rest is async-first with structured weekly standups per workstream.

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