Feedzai Hires Fraud Prevention Industry Veteran To Expand Its Machine Learning Solution In Europe
San Mateo, Calif. – Jan. 27, 2016 – Feedzai, a data science company that uses real-time, machine-based learning to analyze big data and minimize risk in the financial industry, announces the addition of Richard Harris to its leadership team. Harris will take on the role of head of international operations from the company’s London office.
In his new role at Feedzai, Harris will lead sales and international operations teams. He’s tasked with the business’ international expansion by building on the company’s growth of the large scale, real-time decisioning needed to address the petabytes of data the world produces every day. An experienced veteran from multiple relevant financial organizations across the globe, Harris spent six years as the head of sales for Experian Payments, where he focused on expanding the company’s ecommerce, payments, and identity specialties. He was also general manager for the fraud prevention division of American Express, growing a new business to process hundreds of millions of transactions in just three years. Harris also spent several years as the head of ecommerce for Visa Inc., covering Central Europe, Middle East and Africa, where he oversaw the opening of ecommerce markets to mass market card payments in Russia and the Middle East. While there, he worked with hundreds of banks to deploy 3D secure authentication and additional fraud prevention measures.
“When I saw the technology behind Feedzai, it was evident that nothing like this exists in the market” said Harris. “I joined Feedzai because their omnichannel experience and real-time decisioning solution – combining human intelligence with machine learning – is a gamechanger for the industry. I look forward to working alongside their smart, innovative and forward-thinking team.”
“In his decades of work specializing in financial services, payments and risk, Richard has seen under the hood of nearly all the fraud prevention options,” said Nuno Sebastiao, CEO of Feedzai. “It’s very clear that Richard see Feedzai’s solution as groundbreaking, fast moving and evolving in the right direction. I’m excited that he is helping Feedzai set a new standard in the enterprise fraud management space.”
About Feedzai:
Feedzai is the world’s first RiskOps platform, protecting people and payments with a comprehensive suite of AI-based solutions designed to stop fraud and financial crime. Feedzai is trusted by leading financial institutions to manage critical risk and compliance processes, safeguarding trillions of dollars of transactions while improving the customer experience and protecting the privacy of everyday users. For more information, visit feedzai.com.
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