Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Bill Bruno, CEO of D4t4 (Part 2)

Bill Bruno: Another thing that’s picked up in the last few years because of the speed of digital transformation is fraudsters trying to take advantage of that. We have a customer that’s using both systems – our marketing system and our fraud system. In many ways, you can look at it as a hand-off. On the marketing side, we’re helping eliminate friction.

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Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: NorthOne CEO Eytan Bensoussan (Part 2)

Sramana Mitra: First, what is your background?

Eytan Bensoussan: What I did prior to this was helpful, but they were adjacent. I studied Mathematics and Biochemistry. In the iterations of my career, I did a law and MBA program. Not connected to this thing, but they were iterative pieces. Then I spent six years at McKinsey, which gave me an eye-opening view. I was seeing what was happening in Europe and seeing the way that FinTech was emerging in the early 2010s. I combined that with this understanding of the problem from my childhood, I quit my job, and went to go work on it. I got started on NorthOne.

Thought Leaders in Cyber Security: Bill Bruno, CEO of D4t4 (Part 1)

With more people on the Internet and more connected devices, the touchpoint for Cyber Fraud is increasing exponentially. We deep dive into problems, solutions, open problems, and entrepreneurial opportunities.

Sramana Mitra: Let’s start by introducing our audience to yourself as well as to the company.

Bill Bruno: I’m the CEO of D4t4 Solutions. It’s a publicly-traded company out of the UK. I’m based in Chicago. Our company is focused on helping clients activate and make better use of data across all of their digital touch points.

Thought Leaders in Financial Technology: NorthOne CEO Eytan Bensoussan (Part 1)

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Student Developers Bootstrapping with a Paycheck, Then Growing to a Million Users: Ben Spring, CEO of TryHackMe (Part 5)

Sramana Mitra: Can you talk to me about the competition? There is a whole bunch of players in the EdTech space who also cater to the same customers that you are interested in. Pluralsight is a very good example. Who else do you consider as a competitor?

Ben Spring: There are a couple of labs in the industry. They all have their own USP. Where TryHackMe is really strong is delivering training content to an individual. We heavily embed gamification into the product to make it engaging and fun. A lot of our competitors are catering to the enterprise space.