Jocata

An innovative products and consulting firm specializing in the areas of Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and Combating the Financing of...

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry Financial Services
  • Location Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India
  • Currency USD
  • Founded November 2010
  • Employees 18
  • Website jocata.com

Company Summary

An innovative products and consulting firm specializing in the areas of Know Your Customer (KYC), Anti-Money Laundering (AML), and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT) compliance. Compliance with AML and KYC regulations is mandatory. Failure to comply can be very costly including fines and reputational damage. All financial institutions including banks, insurance companies, brokerage firms and NBFCs are potential customers.

Team

  • Prashant Muddu
    Managing Director and CEO

    Prashant Muddu specializes in the analysis and development of models used for customer risk ranking, design and implementation of client due diligence systems, design and customization of trade surveillance and transaction monitoring scenarios, optimization and tuning efforts for anti-money laundering systems. His experience spans the breadth of financial service institutions from large global banks to small community based cooperatives.

  • Andrea Weist
    Managing Director

    Andrea Weist specializes in projects addressing KYC and other AML regulatory and compliance matters. Ms. Weist has vast experience in products and services such as private wealth management, capital markets, fixed income, foreign exchange, and lending. Her clients include large international wholesale, corporate, and investment banks whom she has assisted in the development of comprehensive KYC programs and led large scale remediation projects.

  • Mahdi Bseiso
    Chief Technology Officer

    Mahdi Bseiso has extensive expertise in the design and analysis of complex relational database systems and building user applications and reporting tools for AML and regulatory compliance projects. Mr. Bseiso advises large investment, retail, and corporate banks on their technology strategy for Client On-boarding, Due Diligence and AML monitoring solutions such as Actimize and SearchSpace. He is responsible for leading the technology group and de

  • Gokul Kollayikal
    Business Development Officer

    Gokul Kollayikal was a founding member of several successful companies and brings to Jocata his experience in business development and management consulting for technology companies. Prior to joining Jocata, Mr. Kollayikal focused on product analysis, competitive profiling, product benchmarking, market maturity determination, and overall project management at Intel and Global Science & Technology

  • Usama Fayyad
    Advisor, Member of Board of Directors

    Usama Fayyad is a world-renowned pioneer in the world of data mining and is one of the founders of the fields of data mining and corporate data strategy. He was formerly Yahoo!'s Chief Data Officer and Executive VP, as well as founder of Yahoo!'s research organization. A serial entrepreneur who founded his first startup, Audience Science (formerly DigiMine) in 2000 after leaving Microsoft, Usama sold his second company, DMX Group, to Yahoo! in 20

Advisors

  • Chadbourne & Parke LLP
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed
    R.Subrahmanyam & Company
    Accountant
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • Dr. Usama Fayyad (CEO of Choozon, Chairman of Oasis 500 & former Chief Data Officer at Yahoo)
    Unconfirmed

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