The Leadership Team

Martina King

Martina King joined Featurespace in 2012. Formerly the Managing Director of augmented reality company Aurasma, she has an extensive career in media and technology, including leadership roles at Yahoo! Europe and Capital Radio. Under King’s leadership, Featurespace has become the world’s leading provider of Enterprise Financial Crime prevention software, risk scoring events and preventing fraud and financial crime in more than 180 countries. The company has also raised more than £100 million in funding, supporting its ongoing expansion and ability to protect more than 30 major global financial institutions, including HSBC, TSYS, Worldpay, NatWest Group, Danske Bank and ClearBank. Since 2018, she’s been honored by PaymentsSource as one of its Most Influential Women in Payments and was previously been named a “Top 40 Powerful Women in Tech” by Silicon Republic.

Matt Mills

Matt joined Featurespace in 2013 and manages the company’s Commercial team. During his tenure, Featurespace has established itself as one of the U.K.’s fastest-growing financial technology companies, winning multiple awards in consecutive years, while also ranking in the Deloitte Technology Fast 50™ and the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 since 2017. His leadership contributed to the company receiving the Sunday Times Tech Track 100 Best Management Team award in 2019. Prior to  Featurespace, Matt served as Global Head of Innovation at Aurasma, an augmented reality platform provider and delivered a TEDTalk on Augmented Reality on mobile devices which has had over 2.5 million views. He is a graduate of the University of Durham, where he earned an honours degree in Software Engineering.

David Excell

Dave is Featurespace’s Founder, responsible for the growth and operation of the business across the Americas and oversees the global Product strategy. After studying at the Australian National University and the University of Cambridge, Featurespace began as a concept and has become a leading enterprise financial crime platform for financial institutions and technology providers.

Dave is also a board member for the Technology Association of Georgia and The Knoble, bringing together networks of financial crime specialists to prevent criminals from using the world’s financial systems to profit from the suffering of others.

Jonathan Crossfield

Jonathan leads Featurespace’s finance team and is responsible for financial reporting and investor relations. He works closely with the commercial and operational teams around all aspects of internal analysis and business planning. Prior to joining Featurespace, Jonathan worked in strategic consultancy and equity research, including several years as a senior technology analyst with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Jonathan studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte.

Dr Karthik Tadinada

Karthik is responsible for working with Featurespace’s Financial Services and Insurance clients for analysis and modelling of their data. Karthik studied with Professor Fitzgerald (Featurespace founder) at Cambridge University Engineering Department’s Signal Processing Group. He has a first-class honours degree in Engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering, both from the University of Cambridge. Karthik’s previous roles include a stint as Junior Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, where his work included helping FTSE 100 companies in the financial, IT and mining sectors.

Don Riddick

Don is Chief Legal Officer for Featurespace responsible worldwide for all legal, IP and regulatory affairs. He is the former Vice President of Legal at TSYS, leading their global vendor and third party legal teams. With an extensive career at IBM, including as a contract negotiator, he contributed to the exponential growth of several business units. Prior to law, Don has held technical, engineering, and operations roles, and holds multiple patents in the payment and technology space. Don received his Juris Doctorate from the University of Southern California.

Will Anderson MBE

Will is responsible for building and protecting Featurespace’s reputation globally, and helping more customers choose Featurespace to protect them from fraud and financial crime. Formerly Senior Vice President of Corporate Affairs and Brand at Careem, the Super App for the wider Middle East region, and partner at Brunswick Group, the global strategic communications advisory firm, Will has a diverse career in some of the most exciting and high growth markets around the world.  He also spent 17 years as an officer in the British Army where he served as a tank commander and helicopter pilot.  Will has an MBA from Cranfield University, and was made an MBE in the 2007 Queen’s New Years Honours List for exemplary leadership during military service.

Rowan Link

Rowan leads HR and Recruitment globally and is responsible for the continuous development of Featurespace’s HR strategy, culture, systems and process.  Rowan brings a relentless positive focus to quality, care and consideration of Featurespace greatest asset, its brilliant people.

Rowan has extensive experience in building and leading high achieving teams within world class innovative Media & Technology organisations, bringing very broad generalist skills from both the commercial space and the people space. Rowan joined Featurespace in 2016 (39 team members), she has magnetic positive problem-solving superpowers, which has enabled the attraction and onboarding of over 400 people in the last six years.