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This list showcases the top California, United States based CEO’ operating in the Fraud Detection space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Ryan Breslow
Co-Founder and CEO of Bolt
Ryan is cofounder and CEO at Bolt, an end-to-end platform that replaces fragmented online shopping, payment, and fraud software. Ryan is also a thought-leader in the digital currency space, having cofounded the Beam currency and started the original Stanford Bitcoin Group. Mr. Breslow is a former Co-Founder and CEO at Sites by Hand. He studied Computer Science at Stanford University.
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About Bolt: Bolt is developing a checkout experience platform that helps retailers convert and retain more of their shoppers.
Kevin Gosschalk
Founder & CEO of Arkose Labs
Kevin Gosschalk is the founder of Arkose Labs.
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About Arkose Labs, Forbes Technology Council: Arkose Labs provides fraud prevention, anti-spam, and abuse analysis for businesses, companies, and industries.
Trisha Kothari
CEO, Co-Founder of Unit21
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About Unit21: Unit21 provides a customizable, no-code platform for risk & compliance operations teams to fight fraud, money laundering & financial crimes.
Nuno Sebastiao
Co- Founder, Chairman & CEO of Feedzai
Prior to starting Feedzai, Nuno was an engineer for the European Space Agency, and worked closely with several successful technology startups. In 2011, Nuno, along with his fellow co-founders Paulo Marques and Pedro Bizarro, established Feedzai to fight financial fraud with advanced machine learning technology. Fast forward to today, Nuno has been named the Entrepreneur of the Year by London Business School, shared a stage with tech leaders such as Stephen Hawking and Steve Wozniak, and has been the driving force of Feedzai’s global growth. Under Nuno’s leadership, Feedzai has raised more than $282 million in venture funding, surpassed 500 employees, and continues to keep commerce safe for many of the leading banks, retailers, and payment processors around the globe. Nuno has an MBA from the London Business School.
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About Feedzai: Feedzai develops risk management tools to prevent fraud and money laundering in transactions.
Rick Song
Co-Founder & CEO of Persona
Rick Song is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Persona.
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About Persona: Persona is an identity platform that helps business verify customer identities that brings trust to online interactions.
Patrick Peterson
Founder & CEO of Agari
Patrick Peterson is Agari’s visionary Founder and CEO, who has spent more than 15 years securing the email ecosystem. Peterson founded Agari in 2009, when he saw a real need in the industry for a solution that would secure the email channel. Under his leadership as Chief Executive Officer, he has developed the company’s industry-changing security platform that now protects many of the world’s largest enterprises from email threats. Prior to Agari, Peterson joined IronPort Systems and invented IronPort’s SenderBase, the industry’s first reputation service.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Craig Boundy
CEO Experian North America and Experian Consumer Services of Experian
Craig Boundy joined Experian in November 2011 as Managing Director of Experian UK and Ireland. Additionally, he is responsible for Sales Effectiveness and Vertical Markets globally. Prior to joining Experian, he was CEO of Logica in the UK, having joined Logica in 2008 as CEO Global Operations. Before this, Craig was at Cable & Wireless, where he was Chief Operating Officer (COO) of its business in Europe, US and Asia. Before Cable & Wireless, he was Sales Director and then COO at Energis. His early career was with BT. Craig attended Lancaster University in the UK, graduating in management studies and German.
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About Energis, Experian, Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Naftali Harris
Co-Founder & CEO of SentiLink
Naftali Harris is co-founder and CEO of SentiLink, which is ending synthetic fraud. He previously was the first data scientist hired at Affirm, and later grew and managed the Risk Decisioning team, which was responsible for all production risk systems including the credit and fraud models.
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About SentiLink: SentiLink is an identity verification technology company that helps in detecting and blocking synthetic identities.
Garrett Gafke
Chief Executive Officer of IdentityMind
Garrett Gafke is a successful entrepreneur and Fortune 500 Executive, blending early stage action with public company knowledge. Prior to founding IdentityMind Global, Garrett Gafke served as President & CEO of Paymate, an innovative provider of payment and risk management services which was acquired by Flexigroup(FLX). Prior to Paymate, Garrett Gafke worked as advisor/Interim-CEO for several top tier venture firms and private equity firms. Garrett Gafke has served as President and CEO for SteelEye which was acquired by SIOS a public Japanese company, and was a member of the senior executive team that built and took CyberSource(CYBS) and Trintech(TTPA) public, the former of which Visa acquired in 2010 for $2 billion. He helped build VeriFone’s Internet Commerce Division(PAY) which was later acquired by Hewlett Packard(HQP) for $1.2 billion, and served as the Group Vice President and General Manager for Cardinal Health’s(CAH) technology division A serial entrepreneur, Garrett has a proven track record of founding and growing great technology companies, having completed five M&A transactions, and two successful IPO’s. Garrett Gafke is an active angel investor and Board Member of early stage companies around Silicon Valley.
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About : IdentityMind provides a SaaS platform that builds, maintains, and analyzes digital identities worldwide.
Reed Taussig
CEO of RSA
Reed Taussig is President and Chief Executive Officer of ThreatMetrix. With expertise in building high-growth companies at the forefront of technological change, Taussig has led ThreatMetrix since 2008. Under his leadership the company has become the driving force in an emerging digital identity space by leveraging pioneering global shared intelligence technology. Taussig has extensive executive leadership experience, and prior to ThreatMetrix served as CEO of Callidus Software. Here, he was responsible for a successful IPO, having led the company from its inception, to establishing it as a profitable business with $70+ million in revenue. He has also served as CEO for Vormetric, Inc. and Inquirey.com.
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About Apptimize, Arkose Labs, ClearDATA, Marlin Equity Partners, RSA: RSA offers cybersecurity firm that offers address security, risk management & fraud challenges services.
Jalal Nasir
Founder, President and CEO of Pixalate
Jalal Nasir serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Pixalate.
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About Pixalate: Pixalate is an intelligence platform and real-time fraud protection provider to Advertisers and Fortune 500 companies.
Rajesh Ramanand
Co-Founder & CEO of Signifyd
Rajesh Ramanand is the Founder and CEO of Signifyd, a payments validation company based out of Palo Alto, California. Most recently, Raj led Emerging Markets Risk at PayPal, responsible for managing fraud and credit risk in Latin America, the Middle East and Africa. Prior to PayPal, Raj was with FedEx for eight years, beginning at the FedEx Innovation Labs as an engineer. In addition to building Fedex’s package intercept system, Raj founded, built, and led their Risk Management Division for Payments and Shipping.
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About Signifyd: Signifyd is a provider of an enterprise-grade fraud technology solution for e-commerce stores.
Bryan Derbyshire
Founder & CEO of Protecht
Bryan Derbyshire joined Protecht as Founder & CEO in 2016.Insurance, Payment, and Technology Executive that is interested in transactional business models, integrated payments, insurance, and disrupting the proverbial status quo from a business standpoint. I am focused on revenue and execution while always learning and feeding my inquisitive side. “SIMPLICITY IS HARD TO BUILD, EASY TO USE, AND HARD TO CHARGE FOR… COMPLEXITY IS EASY TO BUILD, HARD TO USE, AND EASY TO CHARGE FOR.” – Chris Sacca
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About FanShield, Protecht, ShopGuarantee: Protecht is an insurtech company that utilizes embedded technologies to distribute insurance products to consumers globally.
Alain Meier
Co-Founder and CEO of Cognito
CEO at Cognito & Co-Founder at Bloom Protocol.
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About Bloom, Cognito: Cognito develops an identity verification and compliance platform for businesses.
Yinglian Xie
CEO & Co-Founder of DataVisor
CEO and Co-Founder of DataVisor Yinglian has over 10 years of experience in security. Her work has been focusing on fighting large-scale attacks, where she combines parallel-computing techniques, algorithms for mining large datasets, and security-domain knowledge into a new theme of solutions in “big data for security.” In the past, Yinglian worked at Microsoft Research and collaborated with many product groups to improve the security of hundreds of millions of online users. She received her PhD degree from the Computer Science Department of Carnegie Mellon University.
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About DataVisor: DataVisor is a fraud detection company powered by transformational AI technology.
Florent Breton
CEO & Co-Founder of Acquire App
Florent Breton is the CEO and Co-Founder of Acquire App.
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About Acquire App: Sell a curated selection of products through stunning checkout pages with embedded checkout.
Sajjad Mustehsan
Founder & CEO of Genuiniti
An entrepreneur with a strong software engineering background predominantly in envisioning, architecting, designing, and building large-scale, highly distributed, and fault-tolerant, web and mobile based, geographical information software systems for fast-evolving consumer domains like social media as well as enterprises in aerospace, agriculture, defense, government, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, real estate, retail, and telecom.
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About Genuiniti: Genuiniti offers mobile apps that help consumers distinguish authentic products from counterfeits.
Eric Tran-le
Co-CEO of Guardian Analytics
Eric Tran-Le is Vice President, head of Actimize Premier. Tran-Le was the Co-CEO of Guardian Analytics, acquired by NICE Actimize, he has held several leadership positions in product management and marketing at companies including Oracle and Microsoft, where he consistently delivered innovative, best-in-class enterprise solutions in the areas of cloud-based predictive analytics for IT security. Tran-le was recently is a member of the Federal Reserve’s Fraud Definitions Work Group initiative to advance the Federal Reserve’s strategy for improving the U.S. payment system.
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About Actimize, Guardian Analytics: Guardian Analytics provides real-time omni-channel fraud prevention solutions to protect online, mobile, wire and ACH channels.
Hue Harguindeguy
Co-CEO & CFO of Guardian Analytics
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About Guardian Analytics: Guardian Analytics provides real-time omni-channel fraud prevention solutions to protect online, mobile, wire and ACH channels.
Tom Fragala
Founder & CEO of Truston
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About IDIQ, Truston: White label credit monitoring, credit reports, credit scores & identity theft protection
Well done Sajjad it is a great achievement Congratulations 🎉🎈Good luck