Kount Adds to Executive Team and Bolsters Product and Solution Momentum With New Vice President

Vikram Dhawan brings depth of fraud prevention and risk management experience to accelerate Kount’s products and solutions in eCommerce fraud and account takeover protection

BOISE, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Kount, the leader in identity trust and fraud prevention, today announced Vikram Dhawan has been appointed as the Vice President of Product. With 15 years of experience in the fraud and risk management industry, Dhawan has been tapped to advance Kount’s recent innovations in account takeover protection and the Identity Trust Global Network. Dhawan joins Kount in a time of acceleration for the company, which was recently named on Fast Company’s list of Most Innovative Companies in 2020 and awarded AdWeek’s Best Security/Antifraud Solution.

Previously, Dhawan served as the Senior Director of Product Management for Fraud and Identity Solutions at LexisNexis where he was responsible for the company’s Cross Industry contributory initiative and Fraud Defense Network. Before taking on the Senior Director title, Dhawan held various leadership roles at the organization ranging from technology enterprise architecture to business development, serving multiple industries. Prior to joining LexisNexis, he co-founded a startup focused on Peer-2-Peer computing and distributed computing, selling the business in 2003.

“Vikram is a key innovator with tremendous experience in business strategy as it relates to fraud prevention,” said Brad Wiskirchen, CEO of Kount. “I am elated to welcome Vikram to our team. Having witnessed and participated in the evolution of fraud risk from a paper-based industry to a digital necessity, his experience will help advance Kount’s leading capabilities to help protect the digital innovations of thousands of brands globally.”

“I am excited to leverage my years in the industry to build upon the world-class innovations that Kount continues to unveil year after year and month after month,” said Dhawan. “I am thrilled to be joining a team where customers’ needs are at the forefront of decision making and speed and passion is apparent in every facet of the business.”

About Kount

Kount’s Identity Trust Global Network delivers real-time fraud prevention, account protection, and enables personalized customer experiences to more than 6,500 leading brands and payment providers. Linked by Kount’s award-winning AI, the Identity Trust Global Network analyzes signals from 32 billion annual interactions in order to personalize user experiences across the spectrum of trust—from frictionless experiences to blocking fraud. Quick and accurate identity trust decisions deliver safe payments, account creation, and login events, while reducing digital fraud, chargebacks, false positives, and manual reviews. www.kount.com