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With over 100 years of combined experience managing fraud and financial crime, Featurespace’s Market Experts have in depth knowledge of the industry, operations and trends in fraud and AML.


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Steve Goddard

Steve Goddard

Fraud and Financial Crime Expert

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Steve has worked within the fraud and payment industry for over 14 years, in the banking, travel and retail space. He has worked closely with merchants advising on fraud strategies as well as running operations teams. He has worked with Banks and PSPs globally in product management roles, leading major development initiatives to deliver solutions to external customers.
Roger Lester

Roger Lester

Fraud & Financial Crime Expert

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Having joined Featurespace in 2015, Roger is a Fraud Matter Expert with a focus in payments on the acquiring side. He has worked in the industry for over 30 years across card issuing, card acquiring and card processing. Roger has a wealth of knowledge across several key areas i.e. fraud, chargebacks, customer services, collections etc but mostly in the area of risk.
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Araliya Sammé

Head of Financial Crime

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Araliya joined Featurespace in 2016, bringing deep subject matter expertise in all areas of Financial Crime to Featurespace customers and finance industry conferences around the world. Prior to joining Featurespace, Araliya worked as a management consultant at both Deloitte and EY (Ernst and Young) and advised at multiple global financial institutions on Financial Crime and Anti-Money Laundering.
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David Excell

Founder

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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.
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Dr Karthik Tadinada

Chief Operating Officer

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Karthik is responsible for working with Featurespace’s Financial Services and Insurance clients for analysis and modelling of their data.
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Dr David Sutton

Director of Innovation

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David is Director of Innovation at Featurespace. He directs the company's Research and Development. In 2015, David transitioned from research astrophysicist at Cambridge University to commercial data science, when he joined Featurespace. He completed his DPhil in Astrophysics at Oxford University in 2010.
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Paul Evans

Fraud Subject Matter Expert

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Paul has worked in Banking since completing his Computer Science degree nearly 20 years ago and 18 of those years have been within Fraud teams. He has worked across the […]