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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 Founder operating in the Fraud Detection space. If you think a Founder 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.
Charles Delingpole
Founder & CEO of ComplyAdvantage
Charles Delingpole is Founder and CEO of ComplyAdvantage, a technology company focused on wiping out financial crime using Machine Learning. As CEO, Charles leads the product development and growth of the company. His passion for the issue came from his time as the MLRO of a previous startup he founded when he realized how inefficient processes around money laundering are. Over 99% of money laundering is successful, ComplyAdvantage is working to stop it completely. Founded in 2014 with offices in London, New York, Singapore, and Cluj, ComplyAdvantage work with over 350 firms across 45 countries. Charles set up his first company, The Student Room Group, now the world’s largest student discussion forum when he was 16. After completing his MA in Politics at Trinity College Cambridge, and then an MSc in Management, Strategy, and Finance from the LSE, he became an associate at J.P. Morgan Cazenove.
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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.
John Lord
Founder & CEO of Trunarrative
Appointed in 2009, John Lord leads the Group’s growing global capability to provide fraud, risk and compliance solutions to many of the world’s largest commercial organisations, governments, as well as disruptive start-ups. Prior to GBG, John led global sales before heading up the UK business for one of the world’s largest credit rating agencies, Dun & Bradstreet, and also led a major data analytics, outsourcing and contact centre business.
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About Trunarrative: Trunarrative is a risk and financial crime management platform that offers fraud prevention, identity, and compliance solutions.
Ian Welch
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Callsign
Ian Welch is the COO of Callsign. Previously he held positions at Ladbrokers and Ascot Racecourse. Ian has a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from Coverntry University
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Zia Hayat
Founder and CEO of Callsign
Zia is Chairman, CEO and founder of Callsign. With a PhD in Information Systems Security from the University of Southampton, he has served in various roles in the cybersecurity industry. From research engineer at BAE Systems to internet banking security architect at Lloyds Bank. Zia oversees the overall direction and strategy of the company while contributing to innovation and design of the service.
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
David Excell
Founder of Featurespace
Dave is Featurespace’s Founder and CTO,responsible for working directly with our clients. Dave is an experienced technology innovator with over 18 years dedicated to the study of engineering. He has received several accolades in his field, including the ITC Enterprise Award for Young Entrepreneur. Under his leadership, Featurespace has progressed from a concept to a commercial success. Dave currently resides in the U.S. and is managing the Featurespace global expansion from Atlanta, Georgia.
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Kimmo Soramaki
Founder & CEO of FNA
Kimmo Soramäki is the Founder and CEO of Financial Network Analytics (FNA) and the founding Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Network Theory in Finance. Kimmo started his career as an economist at the Bank of Finland where in 1997, he developed the first simulation model for interbank payment systems. In 2004, while at the research department of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, he was among the first to apply methods from network theory to improve our understanding of financial systems. During the financial crisis of 2007-2008, Kimmo advised several central banks, including the Bank of England and European Central Bank, in modeling interconnections and systemic risk. This work led him to found FNA in 2013 to solve important issues around financial risk and for exploring the complex financial networks that play a continually larger role in the world around us. Kimmo holds a Doctor of Science in Operations Research and a Master of Science in Economics (Finance), both from Aalto University in Helsinki.
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About FNA: FNA is a deep technology analytics company that offers financial system services.
Antonio Separovic
Co-Founder & CEO of Oradian
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About Oradian: Oradian provides a unique enterprise solution to financial institutions across South East Asia and Africa.
Pat Carroll
Founder and Executive Chairman of ValidSoft
Pat Carroll is a Founder and Executive Chairman at ValidSoft.
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About ElephantTalk Communications, ValidSoft: ValidSoft develops a secure, accurate, precise, and fastest commercial voice biometric engine.
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.
Mairtin O’Riada
Founder & CIO of Ravelin
Mairtin is the CIO at Ravelin, which provides fraud protection for online businesses.The “I” in CIO stands for “Intelligence”, and Mairtin runs the Signals Intelligence team, responsible for the machine learning and graph network models at the heart of Ravelin’s detection engine. He was previously the Head of Fraud at the taxi app Hailo, where he honed his fraudster frustrating skills. He is an internationally experienced intelligence analyst, with stints in Scotland Yard, the United Nations and elsewhere, busting down doors and taking names. An enthusiastic amateur violinist, any resemblance to a certain fictional detective is entirely coincidental.
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About Ravelin: Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud.
Leonard Austin
Founder / CTO of Ravelin
Leonard Austin is the chief financial officer of [Ravelin](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ravelin), a smart fraud prevention platform. He was previously a technical lead at Hailo. Prior to Hailo, Austin founded Recensus before which he was a director at Welford Media. Austin holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Leicester.
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About Ravelin: Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud.
Nick Lally
Founder & COO of Ravelin
Nick Lally is the Founder at Ravelin Technology Ltd.Nick Lally is an Employee at British Telecom, Hailo, NBC Universal, Canonical Ltd (Makers of Ubuntu), Village Roadshow Pictures. He holds Institute Of Chartered Accountants Of Australia in 2002 and studied at La Trobe University in 1999.
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About Ravelin: Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud.
Nick Tsinonis
Co-Founder of Scamalytics
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About Scamalytics: Scamalytics maintain the largest shared anti-fraud database dedicated to the online dating industry.
Andy Lee
Founder & Chief Product Officer 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
