AI Fraud Prevention Platform Darwinium Appoints Leadership Team to Accelerate Growth

Darwinium, an emerging leader in AI-powered fraud prevention, has announced a series of key executive appointments as part of an accelerated go-to-market strategy aimed at helping organisations respond to rapidly evolving threats driven by advanced automation and agentic AI.

The leadership expansion reflects the company’s growing momentum in North America and beyond, as banks, fintechs, e-commerce platforms and digital services seek more intelligent ways to combat fraud without compromising user experience or operational efficiency.

This isn’t just a normal round of hires — it’s a strategic build-out designed to help enterprises confront the ‘agentic AI’ era, where automated assistants and intelligent agents blur the line between legitimate user behaviour and malicious automation.

Strengthening Go-to-Market Execution

At the centre of the expansion is the appointment of Michael Rodriguez as Global Head of Go-to-Market, a role that signals Darwinium’s ambition to establish deeper commercial reach and accelerate adoption of its platform across industries. Rodriguez brings more than two decades of experience in payments, fintech and digital identity, including executive roles at GE, Visa, Microblink and Bureau.id — experiences that the company believes equip him to scale Darwinium’s presence effectively.

“Fraud is evolving faster than ever,” said Alisdair Faulkner, co-founder and CEO of Darwinium. “We’re building a go-to-market team with the commercial and operational experience to translate our platform’s capabilities into measurable impact for customers before AI-powered attackers outpace traditional security strategies.”

In the age of agentic automation, companies need fraud prevention that understands behaviour at every level of the customer journey — and a leadership team that can help them deploy it at scale.

Deepening Fraud and Trust Expertise

In addition to Rodriguez, Darwinium has also named Donnie Gates as Senior Director, Fraud and Trust Advisory and Melissa Griffin as Senior Solutions Engineer, further bolstering its leadership bench with specialists focused on customer implementation and solution optimisation.

Gates brings experience from industry leaders including Riskified, BioCatch, Forter and 41st Parameter, where he helped organisations balance fraud prevention with seamless customer experiences. Griffin’s background spans LexisNexis, ThreatMetrix, Prove and NeuroID, contributing deep expertise in identity and fraud workflows crucial to onboarding and authentication.

These hires strengthen Darwinium’s ability to help clients not just deploy technology, but integrate it into real-world risk and trust strategies tailored to their business needs.

Why This Matters Now

Digital platforms are grappling not only with traditional bot-based attacks, but with agentic AI agents — autonomous scripts and tools that can mimic legitimate behaviour, scale attacks rapidly and evade conventional detection systems. Darwinium’s platform aims to address this complexity by analysing and scoring trust across continuous user journeys in real time, using behavioural intelligence at the network edge.

In this context, expanding the leadership team isn’t just about growth — it’s about helping customers adopt a new approach to fraud and risk, one that aligns with the realities of AI-powered threats. Organisations today need partners that can operationalise advanced fraud prevention techniques quickly, and a leadership team that can guide that transition.

Positioning for Growth

Darwinium’s recent leadership additions follow earlier strategic hires and ongoing innovation in its platform’s capabilities. The company has previously added experts in fraud operations and professional services, such as its Global Vice President of Professional Services role filled by Krishna Jayakumar — a seasoned fraud risk and analytics leader.

Together, these moves are designed to reinforce both the commercial engine and delivery excellence needed to support organisations adopting next-generation fraud defence solutions.

The leadership build-out comes at a time when cybercrime and digital trust challenges are top of mind for enterprises, and the need for intelligent, real-time fraud prevention has never been greater.

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