Scott Lane

Scott trained as a lawyer in Australia before moving in-house across Asia, as Associate General Counsel at Sun Microsystems and then General Counsel APAC at Hitachi Data Systems. In 2006 he founded The Red Flag Group, and built it over fourteen years into a global risk and compliance intelligence firm serving Fortune 500 companies across dozens of countries, before selling it to the London Stock Exchange Group in 2020.

On exit, he kept two things: a whistleblowing platform, and ETHIC Intelligence, a France-based, ISO 37001-accredited certification body. He combined them to found Speeki, now an ISO 17021-1 accredited ESG assurance and certification body operating across more than 100 countries, built around a simple premise: assurance builds trust, and great assurance builds trust and value. His work centres on making sustainability and ESG claims verifiable, not just publishable, and on putting AI directly into how that verification gets done.

He built Speeki's agentic AI auditor, Nicole, to change the economics of assurance: more evidence reviewed, faster, without loosening the standard a board is held to. That work sits at the centre of how Scott thinks and writes, sustainability and AI aren't two separate beats, they're one discipline now.

Scott's other conviction is that audit has been sold the wrong way for decades: a slow, bespoke, heavy professional-services engagement that only large companies can navigate. He's pushing Speeki toward a retail model instead, an online shop where audit and certification can be scoped and bought directly, no lengthy sales process required, so mid-market companies get the same rigour without the overhead.

Scott holds ISO Lead Auditor certification across eight management-system standards, including AI management (ISO 42001), anti-bribery (ISO 37001), compliance (ISO 37301) and information security (ISO 27001), is a Graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a NACD Certified Director, and is completing an Executive Masters in Sustainable Transformation at IMD, on top of earlier executive education at Harvard, Wharton, INSEAD and MIT.

He personally delivers Speeki's executive education programme — 60-plus specialist courses spanning ISO 37001 anti-bribery management, ISO 37301 compliance, ISO 14001 environmental management, ISO 42001 AI governance, CSRD and ESRS reporting, GHG accounting, human rights due diligence, and sustainability assurance under ISSA 5000. It's the same practitioner-level detail that shows up in his writing: taught from real audit and assurance work, not adapted from a slide deck.

Scott treats governance, sustainability, AI and international business as fiduciary problems, a board's responsibility, not a specialist function to delegate, and argues that behavioural change, not better systems, is the real work behind compliance and sustainability.