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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Director operating in the Fraud Detection space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
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 Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Jonathan Draper
Product Director, Onboarding and Monitoring of ComplyAdvantage
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About ComplyAdvantage: ComplyAdvantage provides AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology.
Jan Farrarons
Founder & Director of Judopay
Jan Farrarons is the founder of Dojo, Capital On Tap, and Judopay.
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About Capital on Tap, Dojo, Judopay: Judopay is a mobile-first payments platform.
Nick Mothershaw
Director of Identity and Fraud, Director of Strategy of Experian
Nick is responsible for the strategic development of Experian’s fraud and identity solutions for both the public and private sectors. Nick has been with Experian for over 15 years. Previously Nick was a director of a company providing global solutions within the broader Criminal Justice arena. Here he architected the Scottish Intelligence Database: the only cross force intelligence sharing and matching solution in the UK. He also exported best of breed UK crime management systems to Australia and the US. Nick has also worked for IBM in the healthcare and utilities sector, and began his career as a mainframe systems analyst with a large UK brewer and pub company. He has a degree in Computer Science. Nick is also Co-chair of the Open Identity Exchange (OIX). OIX aims to create a market for Identity Services that adopts open identity standards and enables transactions across industry sectors Nick has three children, and is into amateur dramatics in his spare time. In the last 12 months he has played one of the title roles and Beauty and the Beast (we’ll allow you to guess which one), along with a scared embittered ex-solider in Road.
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Ryszard Jedrzejewski
Product Director – Affordability of Experian
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Vikas Tripathi
Managing Director of Heliocor
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About Heliocor: Heliocor is a regulatory technology company.We are building a global anti fraud ecosystem based on our Robolitics and Dokstor SaaS products.
David Rasche
Chairman of the Board of Directors of GB Group
Appointed to the Board in September 2010. He was the founder of SSP Holdings Limited, one of the largest specialist insurance software houses in the world. David has over 40 years IT industry experience with over 35 years at board level in the software and services sectors. He is also Non-Executive Chairman of Onyx Group.
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About : GB Group offers a series of solutions that help organisations quickly validate and verify the identity and location of their customers.
Patrick Curry
Director – Innovation & Strategy of Sedicii
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About Sedicii: Sedicii verifies identity data between two organisations without exposing the underlying data.
Mike Prettejohn
Director of Netcraft
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About Netcraft: Netcraft is an Internet services company based in Bath which provides Internet data mining and anti-cybercrime services.
Alexander Korff
Co-Founder & Executive Director of ValidSoft
Alexander Korff is the Co-Founder and Executive Director at ValidSoft.
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About ValidSoft: ValidSoft develops a secure, accurate, precise, and fastest commercial voice biometric engine.
Eddie Bell
Director of Machine Learning of Ravelin
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About Ravelin: Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud.
Joanne May
Director of Integrations of Ravelin
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About Ravelin: Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud.
Neill Cooper
Director of Europe of SpyCloud
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About SpyCloud: SpyCloud develops account takeover prevention and fraud investigation tools.
Terry Chow
Operations Director of Sphonic
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About Sphonic: Sphonic is a Context-Broker that leverages 3rd party vendor data with a workflow engine to enable fraud prevention, AML, KYC
Rob Laurence
Director of Torwood Consulting
Rob has spent a working lifetime in IT and the last 15 years in identity. Working at GB Group, Rob was tasked with establishing a new division to design, develop and market the UK’s first purpose-built electronic identity verification service. The service became widely recognised as the market leader in age and identity verification with high street banks, building societies, share traders, mobile retailers and the gambling sector amongst several hundred clients. As MD, Rob delivered year on year triple digit growth, achieved profitability in year 3 and accounted for half the group’s revenue in year 5. As time and the identity market moved on, so did Rob to seek a new challenge. In 2012, Rob started working with a start-up, Innovate Identity. Today, Innovate Identity is regarded as a thought leader in identity, providing specialist consulting services to governments, OIX, the financial services and payments industries, to help them better understand the world of identity and adopt and make better use of technology to meet their and their customers’ needs.
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About Torwood Consulting: Torwood Consulting is a firm that specializes in IT software and services.
John Shannon
Partner Director of Tiger
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About Tiger: Tiger delivers workplace performance analytics that transforms how enterprises work, collaborate, and perform.
