The IRM50 All-Stars Take the Field
Wheelhouse Advisors Releases 2025 Lineup on MLB's Biggest Stage
Source: https://www.mlb.com/all-star
July 15, 2025 | Atlanta — On the same day baseball's best step up to the plate at the 95th MLB All-Star Game in Atlanta, Wheelhouse Advisors has released its all-star roster: the 2025 IRM50.
And just like the Midsummer Classic, this announcement celebrates top-tier talent, position-specific excellence, and strategic versatility—only this time, the field is Integrated Risk Management (IRM), not Truist Park. Wheelhouse's IRM50 recognizes the 50 most influential technology and consulting providers driving the future of IRM. The timing isn't just symbolic—Wheelhouse Advisors is also headquartered in Atlanta, and this year's report marks the broadest, most globally representative IRM50 to date.
📰 View the Official Press Release
🧢 The 2025 IRM50: A Strategic All-Star Roster
The IRM50 was born out of necessity. As the IRM market accelerates—projected to reach $147 billion by 2032—boards, CISOs, risk officers, and transformation leaders are seeking a clearer understanding of who is truly driving the industry forward. Wheelhouse's latest IRM Navigator™ Viewpoint Report evaluates more than 220 providers globally and selects the top 50 based on solution breadth, integration capability, and market influence across five IRM domains:
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)
Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC)
Operational Risk Management (ORM)
Technology Risk Management (TRM)
Risk Management Consulting (RMC)
⚙️ Every Position Covered—With New Additions to the Field
Source: wheelhouseadvisors.com
Like any well-balanced all-star team, the IRM50 roster includes players at every position. But 2025 marks a significant evolution: for the first time, Risk Management Consulting (RMC) firms are included as full-fledged contributors. These are the "closers" and "coaches" of IRM—driving execution maturity and enabling results through advisory strength.
🆕 10 consulting firms now appear on the list, making up 20% of the IRM50.
🥇 Market Leaders: A Smaller, More Select Club
In past years, as many as 21 vendors earned the Market Leader designation. But this year, only six providers met the rigorous threshold required to be named a 2025 IRM50 Market Leader. These firms demonstrated the strongest performance across core capabilities, integration depth, and domain versatility.
🏆 Think of them as the starting lineup—dependable across any risk "inning," and strong both at bat and in the field.
🆕 New Entrants: The Rookies to Watch
Every All-Star Game has its rising stars. This year's IRM50 features five new entrants—firms that broke into the top 50 for the first time based on standout innovation, momentum, or new capabilities that redefined their category.
🌟 From AI-native TRM platforms to digital-twin advisory models, these vendors are shifting how risk is managed at scale.
🌎 Global Reach, Local Impact
While the U.S. still leads in IRM50 headquarters representation, this year's roster includes firms based in Canada, Norway, the UK, France, Switzerland, the Netherlands, and India, affirming the global maturity of the market.
📍 Atlanta may host the All-Star Game, but the IRM50 plays on a global field.
💼 Mostly Private Players—But With Big League Clients
Public giants like Microsoft, IBM, and ServiceNow appear on the IRM50, but the vast majority—over 80%—are privately held. These vendors are backed by private equity, venture capital, or founder-led teams. But don't mistake private ownership for niche scale. Many of these providers serve the who's who of global business:
One is used by 75% of the Fortune 500
Another powers over 40% of the list
Most are deeply embedded in regulated industries, critical infrastructure, and multi-national enterprise risk functions
🧮 IRM is still a private-market game, where agility, innovation, and funding power drive growth faster than IPOs.
Source: wheelhouseadvisors.com
🧮 Roster Depth: From Boutique to Big Four
Some IRM50 vendors operate with just 60–100 employees, offering focused innovation in narrow but essential domains. Others—particularly in the consulting segment—employ more than 370,000 professionals worldwide.
🧠 In total, the IRM50 workforce exceeds 1.5 million people—enough to fill Truist Park more than 36 times over.
This spread mirrors the real-world diversity of risk strategies: some organizations require agility and niche depth, while others need global reach and integration at scale.
📣 Why This Lineup Matters
The 2025 IRM50 doesn't just name names. It captures a shift:
From fragmented compliance tools to integrated risk platforms.
From siloed assessments to Autonomous IRM.
From governance-first to outcome-first.
Each of these vendors is helping organizations reframe risk, not as an afterthought, but as a strategic function. And like tonight's All-Star Game, the IRM50 offers a snapshot of the best of the best—only instead of innings, they're shaping the next generation of performance, resilience, assurance, and compliance.
📘 Explore the Full Report & Series
The IRM Navigator™ Viewpoint Report is the first in a seven-part series covering every major segment of IRM—from GRC and TRM to ORM, ERM, and beyond.
🗞 Read the Official IRM50 Press Release
📊 Learn more at: www.wheelhouseadvisors.com/irm-navigator-research
Wheelhouse Advisors | IRM Navigator™ Report Series Publisher
📍 Atlanta, GA | ⚾ Home of the IRM50 All-Stars
