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This list showcases the top California, United States based CTO’ operating in the Fraud Detection space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Clarence Chio
President, CTO, Co-Founder of Unit21
CTO and Co-Founder of Unit 21 and a Lecturer in UC Berkeley’s School of Information.
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About O’Reilly, Unit21, University of California Berkeley: Unit21 provides a customizable, no-code platform for risk & compliance operations teams to fight fraud, money laundering & financial crimes.
Paulo Marques
Founding Partner and CTO of Feedzai
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About Carnegie Mellon University, Feedzai, Forbes Technology Council: Feedzai develops risk management tools to prevent fraud and money laundering in transactions.
Charles Yeh
Co-Founder & CTO of Persona
Charles Yeh is a Co-Founder and the Chief Technology 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.
John Wilson
Field CTO of Agari
John Wilson is the Field Chief Technology Officer at Agari, responsible for researching and utilizing the company’s advanced data security insights to drive continuous technology innovation. An esteemed security expert, Wilson is often called upon to assist major organizations in fighting cyber crime. During his career, he assisted Microsoft and the FS-ISAC with taking down the B54 Citadel botnet by providing data related to Citadel botnet infections and acting as a declarant in the civil forfeiture action filed in US District Court.
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About Agari: Agari is an email identity company protecting enterprises and people from phishing and socially-engineered attacks.
Fang Yu
Co-founder & CTO of DataVisor
CTO and Co-Founder of DataVisor. Fang’s work focuses on “big-data for security.” Over the past 10 years, she has been developing algorithms and building systems for identifying various malicious traffic such as worms, spam, bot queries, faked and hijacked account activities, and fraudulent financial transactions. Fang received her Ph.D. degree from the EECS Department at University of California at Berkeley.
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About DataVisor: DataVisor is a fraud detection company powered by transformational AI technology.
Maxime Pruvost
Co-Founder and CTO of Acquire App
Maxime Pruvost is the Co-Founder and CTO of Acquire App.
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About Acquire App: Sell a curated selection of products through stunning checkout pages with embedded checkout.
Veljko Skarich
CTO & Co-Founder of Swarm Enterprises
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About Swarm Enterprises: Real-Time Bot Detection Developed by Fraud Experts
Satya Parimi
CTO of Zumigo
CTO, Experienced in Mobile, Financial and Payment Systems.
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About Zumigo: Zumigo is a pioneer of mobile services providing fraud prevention and helping secure transactions, devices and identities.
John Ratcliff
CTO of My Verified ID
John Ratcliff is CTO at My Verified ID.
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About My Verified ID: My Verified ID protects internet users, governments, and businesses from identity theft, fake identities, and online deception.