BUILT FROM ENFORCEMENT · DESIGNED FOR PREVENTION

Built from enforcement. Designed for prevention.

SignalLane's systems are shaped by seeing what happens when organizational controls fail—and understanding what stronger infrastructure requires upstream.

Founder

Coretta L. Catlin, Esq.

Coretta is a former federal prosecutor, legal and compliance executive, investigations leader, and founder of SignalLane Systems.

Across more than 15 years in law, enforcement, investigations, and compliance, Coretta Catlin has worked at the point where legal requirements meet operational reality. Her career has spanned federal prosecution and regulatory enforcement, complex investigations, cross-border regulatory compliance work at a global law firm, and in-house legal and compliance leadership in a fast-scaling, technology-enabled business. Across those environments, she has seen the same challenge from different sides: organizations rarely struggle because they lack another policy or legal conclusion. They struggle when risk is not translated into clear ownership, sound decisions, workable controls, meaningful escalation, reliable evidence, and sustained follow-through.

That experience is the foundation of SignalLane Systems. The premise is simple: an issue is not resolved because an investigation ends, a finding is written, or a policy exists. Durable resolution requires accountability, operating discipline, monitoring, remediation, and systems that learn from what went wrong so the same failure is less likely to happen again. SignalLane exists to help organizations build that infrastructure.

Former Federal Judicial Law Clerk
Former Assistant U.S. Attorney
Former U.S. Department of Education Attorney · Oversight and enforcement strategy across a $1.6T federal portfolio and complex institutional investigations
Former Dentons US LLP attorney, world’s largest law firm · Complex cross-border investigations and federal enforcement defense
Former In-House Associate General Counsel · Built compliance operations and risk guardrails for a nationally recognized, high-growth legal enterprise
Frontier AI Legal & Risk Advisory · Stress-testing advanced AI across complex legal, regulatory, compliance, and operational risks.
Vanderbilt University, cum laude
Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, with distinction
Harvard Business School Online executive education in Strategy Execution
Co-Chair, Compliance Affinity Group, National Association of Women Lawyers
National Bar Association Top 40 Under 40
Coretta L. Catlin, founder of SignalLane Systems, seated in a professional office setting
The SignalLane perspective

The strongest compliance work does more than explain the standard. It builds the organization’s capacity to meet it consistently.