QUANTIFIND - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Chief Product Officer
- Senior Leader
Adam has been a senior leader at Quantifind since 2016 and led the launch of its first SaaS products for financial crimes. Today he drives the company's roadmap of AI-enabled applications, collaborating closely with financial institutions and Quantifind's own scientists and engineers. Prior to joining Quantifind, Adam spent 10 years as a consultant with specialization in sensors, algorithms, and software.
Camarillo brings over two decades of strategic and creative marketing experience with leadership roles in automation, data applications, and consulting services for successful startups and global enterprise companies.
Most recently, Camarillo served as Chief Marketing Officer of Avo Automation, where she led the launch of the company brand and its marketing function. She was instrumental in helping them sign several Fortune 100 companies and set the record for customer reviews on well-established sites. Her previous roles include executive positions in software companies, including Sun Microsystems, NetApp, and Automation Anywhere.
As EVP of marketing, Camarillo will oversee branding, global communications, digital marketing, events and demand generation functions. Among her priorities will be to make Quantifind a respected, beloved, and trusted brand to all stakeholders.
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Co - Founder
- Member of the Board of Directors
Ari co-founded Quantifind in 2009, after an academic career in atomic physics, with the vision to help businesses and governments make data driven decisions. Ari's work on precision measurement and signal processing has distinguished his career, beginning with an effort in hazardous material detection and now focusing on driving automation and efficiency in combating financial crimes.
Ashin leads Quantifind's talented Data Science teams responsible for building machine learning solutions that are the backbone of our product. He oversees the data science roadmap with an emphasis on ML models in the natural language processing space to advance Quantifind's entity linking, disambiguation, and risk inference models.
Job Titles:
- Advisor
- Co - Founder, CEO, and Chairman of the Board of the Apollo Group
Dr. Brent Crider is a dynamic entrepreneur and strategist with a distinguished 23-year career in the United States Air Force (USAF), where he served as a senior intelligence officer, earning the Bronze Star and numerous accolades. Transitioning to the financial services sector, he held leadership roles at Citi Bank and other organizations, specializing in BSA/OFAC compliance and regulatory solutions for banks, money services businesses, and the crypto space. As the founder of BC Compliance Associates, Dr. Crider helped companies enhance compliance programs and drive growth.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Vice President at DNS Capital
Emily Brown is a Vice President at DNS Capital, which is the investment office and internal merchant bank for the business enterprise of the Pritzker Pucker family. Prior to joining DNS Capital, Emily was an investment banking analyst in the Global Industrials Group at Goldman Sachs.
Graham brings 30 years' of experience in financial services, intelligent enterprise services, and defense, with leadership in financial crimes risk across multiple disciplines including AML, ABC, and fraud. He served most recently as Executive VP at Wells Fargo, managing risk operations across all global markets for retail, corporate, correspondent and private banking, brokerage, insurance and trading.
Jim Richards served as Wells Fargo's BSA Officer and Global Head of Financial Crimes Risk Management for 13 years, until recently launching his own RegTech advisory consulting group. Prior to Wells Fargo, Mr. Richards was the Director of Global AML Operations at Bank of America. He is the author of "Transnational Criminal Organizations, Cybercrime, and Money Laundering" (CRC Press 1998)
Job Titles:
- Co - Founder
- Member of the Board of Directors
John leads Quantifind's prototyping efforts to extract signals, and value, from vast amounts of diverse, unstructured data. Most recently he has extended Quantifind's technology into defense and law enforcement applications that map malign activity from open source data. John's prior academic work included theoretical and experimental research in precision metrology, quantum entanglement, and atomic physics.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School
- Professor, Stanford Law School
Joseph A. Grundfest is a Professor of Law and Business at Stanford Law School. He's an expert on capital markets, corporate governance, and securities litigation. His scholarship has been published in the Harvard, Yale, and Stanford law reviews. Joe is also a senior faculty member with the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance, a co-founder and director of Financial Engines, and a director of Kohlberg, Kravis, Roberts & Co.
Job Titles:
- Director of People
- Senior Director of People
As Director of People, Karen leads the People growth and development strategy. She manages all People functions including the onboarding process, coaching, training, compensation & benefits, succession planning and company culture. Prior to joining Quantifind, Karen managed her own coaching and consulting business focused on individual and interpersonal team development.
Lance is responsible for making sure every touchpoint of our brand is thoughtfully crafted. He helps make sure that the interdisciplinary work necessary to create complex software ultimately delivers an experience that delights users. Prior to Quantifind, Lance was owner and creative director of a Chicago design studio for 19 years.
Michael Shepard is a global operating and internationally recognized financial crime risk management executive with 37 years of experience. He was a principal at Deloitte for 18 years and was global Financial Crime leader for the past six years. Prior to joining Deloitte, he was the BSA Officer and head of Financial Crime Compliance and Deputy General Counsel at Commerce Bank, N.A. (subsequently acquired by TD Bank, N.A.), partner in the White Collar Criminal Defense practice at Blank Rome LLP, and a federal prosecutor at the US Department of Justice.
Nicole leads the efforts to help customers successfully adopt and leverage Quantifind's innovative products. With over 15 years of experience in building, developing, and leading customer-focused teams, Nicole is dedicated to ensuring exceptional customer experiences. Her career includes leadership roles in customer success and market expansion. She has previously led the Customer Success departments at Featurespace and IRONSCALES, where she developed strategies to enhance customer satisfaction and engagement. At TSYS, a Fortune 500 company, Nicole managed large retail banking relationships and later led the customer consulting team.
Nicole holds a Master's degree in Law and a financial compliance certificate from USC Gould School of Law. She is also committed to industry advancement and community service, currently serving on the President's Advisory Board for Paytech Women.
Paul leads the company's technical efforts - data science, data infrastructure, and the front-end data visualizations. He sets the schedule and tone for a dynamic team of engineers. He brings 25 years of experience in scaling and managing SaaS application development, Big Data infrastructure, and technical operations at startups in addition to publicly-traded software companies.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
Puja Agrawal is a FinTech executive and board advisor with decades of experience driving hyper growth in startups and public companies. Puja is an operator with deep expertise across banking, product management, sales, and go-to-market. She is currently COO Americas at Finastra, the third largest FinTech company in the world. Previously, Puja was GVP/GM of the Financial Markets Compliance business at NICE Actimize, where she led the vision, strategy, and P&L, and was responsible for global operations across all functions of the business.
Job Titles:
- SVP of Platform Engineering
Ryan leads Quantifind's Platform Team responsible for building core backend infrastructure that powers our machine learning platform and products. He oversees the platform team roadmap with an emphasis on supporting high-performance computation over large high dimensional unstructured data sets, as well as providing core backend services and data pipelines that power our products and modeling. Ryan brings over 15 years of experience building and scaling backend infrastructure to support demanding product usage.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Board of Directors
- General Partner, US Venture Partners
Steve Krausz has 30+ years of venture capital experience. Steve has led or co-led USVP's investments in Trusteer (acquired by IBM), Guidewire Software (IPO), Xylan (IPO), Epic Design (IPO), New Focus (IPO), Savings.com (acquired by Cox Target Media), Vontu (acquired by Symantec), Verity (IPO), CipherTrust (acquired by Secure Computing) and other great companies. Steve currently serves on the boards of Active-Semi, Appthority, Box (NYSE: BOX), Cato Networks, Electric Cloud, Exablox, Inside Sales (observer), Kaiam, Megapath, and Prevoty.
Job Titles:
- Senior Recruiting Manager
Veronica leads the recruiting team at Quantifind overseeing the entire hiring process from initial application to onboarding. She is responsible for delivering exceptional candidate experience no matter the interview stage in the hiring life cycle, as well as, embodying the company culture with an unrelenting passion to hire the best talent.