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About us

The work we do matters, and so do the people who do it. Our culture is how we make sure both keep getting better as we grow.

Four values guide it.

Make a safer world

We are here to make financial systems safer for everyone. Every role at ComplyAdvantage – from engineering to customer success – contributes to a world where fraud, money laundering, human trafficking, and terrorist financing are harder to hide.

Raise the bar

We continuously improve how we think, build, and operate. We set ambitious standards and pursue them with discipline, never settling for good enough.

See it, own it, drive it forward

We notice what needs to change, take personal responsibility, and push it forward with energy and purpose. We do not wait to be asked. We lead from wherever we are in the organization, act with urgency, and see things through. That is how progress happens.

Win as one team

We operate as one coordinated team. Financial crime is complex and global. No single function or individual can solve it alone. We succeed by building trust, respecting expertise, sharing responsibility, and creating an environment where meaningful work is both rewarding and enjoyable.

Our Investors

We’re proud to be supported by world-leading institutional and venture capital investors who believe in our mission to transform financial crime detection. This includes Balderton Capital, Index Ventures, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, Goldman Sachs, and Andreessen Horowitz (a16z).

A new paradigm for FinCrime compliance isn’t just necessary, it’s a human imperative.

Above all, we are motivated by the true cost of financial crime: people. Behind the $2 trillion laundered every year are 50 million victims of modern slavery, the rising sextortion of minors, and a global system that recovers less than 1% of dirty money. We build purpose-driven technology to empower financial institutions as they address the human imperative of dismantling these criminal cycles and becoming a catalyst for change.

Meet our leaders

Charles Delingpole
Founder & Executive Chairman
Charles is a technology entrepreneur, and our founder and Executive Chairman. He has extensive executive experience in financial services across the U.S., Europe, and Asia. Previously he was the Co-Founder and CEO of MarketFinance, a business finance company that has raised over $59m in funding. Before that, he was an investment banker at J.P. Morgan Cazenove. When he was 16, Charles founded the world’s largest student discussion forum.
Vatsa Narasimha
Chief Executive Officer
Vatsa is our CEO. He has deep expertise in driving growth in financial institutions and fintechs. Vatsa was previously COO at ComplyAdvantage. Prior to joining ComplyAdvantage, he served as the President and CEO of electronic trading and foreign exchange fintech OANDA. He joined OANDA from The Boston Consulting Group. He holds an MS in Electrical Engineering from Cornell University and an MBA from The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Nabeel Vilcassim
Chief Financial Officer
Nabeel has over 15 years of investment banking and corporate finance experience. Prior to ComplyAdvantage, Nabeel was a Managing Director and Head of EMEA FinTech at Moelis & Company. He started his career at Citigroup covering the European financial services sector. Nabeel specialised in advising high-growth FinTech and financial services firms on mergers and acquisitions, corporate finance and capital markets transactions.
Mark Watson
Chief Product and Technology Officer
Mark leads the company’s technology team in developing and running world-class technology. Mark has over 30 years’ experience in large companies and start-ups, several of which he co-founded and built from scratch. Immediately before ComplyAdvantage, he was CTO at WorldRemit, a leading cross-border digital payments service providing international money transfer and remittance services across a worldwide network.
Paul Kizakevich
President, GTM
Paul is a proven executive who has held senior commercial roles in scale-up and enterprise organizations over the past 25 years, bringing deep AI and high-growth leadership experience to ComplyAdvantage. He was previously President and Chief Revenue Officer at AI-augmented software testing automation platform Katalon. Prior to that, he was CRO at ASAPP, an AI-driven customer interaction platform.
Graham Levere
Chief People Officer
Graham is our Chief People Officer. He has over 20 years of experience in the technology sector, focused on building collaborative and inclusive environments where high-performing teams can do their best work and accomplish amazing things. Prior to joining ComplyAdvantage, Graham held people-leadership positions at Duco Technology, Improbable, and Google, following early experience at UBS Investment Bank and Deloitte.