About
Leading the Fight Against Scammers
Meet the Experts Behind Our Industry-Leading Scam Protection Solutions
Introducing Our Leadership Team
Al Pascual
CEO, Co-Founder
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A recognized expert on cybercrime, Al Pascual is the CEO and Founder of Scamnetic. A successful technology entrepreneur and a former managing executive of Javelin Strategy & Research, Al has spent his career laser-focused on protecting consumers and organizations from financially motivated crimes. His past research on consumer identity theft has been cited by hundreds of media outlets and presented at conferences around the world. Al cut his teeth fighting fraudsters at HSBC, Goldman Sachs, and FIS, where during his time as an investigator, his work resulted in the arrest of more than four hundred suspects.
John Evans
COO, Co-Founder
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A seasoned executive leader and entrepreneur with extensive expertise in Cyber Security SaaS. John has successfully led growth and operations teams across North America and globally, driving expansion organically and inorganically through nine acquisitions. John’s most recent roles were at Sontiq and TransUnion. At Sontiq, he served as Partner and Executive Vice President protecting payments and identities against the world biggest cyber criminals. Post acquisition with Transunion, he led the Consumer and Identity Solutions Group helping achieve goals upwards of $400M+ in annual revenue. John holds an MBA from the University of Texas, Naveen Jindal School of Management accompanied by bachelor’s degree from Marymount University.
Scott Grushoff
Chief Revenue Officer
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An accomplished executive sales leader with a proven track record of driving significant revenue growth and operational excellence. Scott is skilled in scaling businesses, building high-performing teams, and implementing innovative strategies. He has a proven ability to identify and capitalize on market opportunities, optimize sales processes, and foster strong client relationships. Experienced in leading startup to large global organizations and delivering results. Scott’s most recent roles included: Sontiq, a TransUnion Company, as SVP of Sales, where he led a vertical responsible for over $190M in annual revenue; IdentityForce, as SVP of Sales, where he scaled revenue from $8M to over $85M; and ATS Digital Services, as President, where he grew company sales from startup to over $130M and led a team of 900+ global employees.
Scott Franklin
Head of Engineering
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Scott has spent the last couple of decades at high-growth tech companies focused on designing and scaling both the services and the teams that allow a business to become sustainable past the startup phase. He has started or helped grow several tech companies in the Portland area as both a developer and a technology leader and finds the challenge of balancing the opportunities for aggressive growth with the need to solve real problems for real people energizing. Most recently, Scott served as Director of Architecture for the e-commerce groups at Nike, helping move the Sport and Commerce systems to distributed, cloud-based microservices and advocating for a platform engineering approach to development. He calls Portland, Oregon home and is a proud United States Marine Corps veteran.
Board of Advisors
Donna Turner
Former Chief Operating Officer of Early Warning/Zelle
Eva Velasquez
President/CEO of Identity Theft Resource Center
Melissa McSherry
Former SVP, Data and Security Products with VISA and SVP of Card Partnership for Capital One
Matt O'Neill
Former Deputy SAC Cyber Scams, US Secret Service, and founder of 50H Consulting
Dan Rawlings
Founder of Navantus, former CEO of ThreatMark and COO of Trustonic
Troy Leach
President of Cloud Security Alliance and former CTO of PCI Security Standards
Jay Kissman
Former owner of 3PC Media and current founder of Object North
Rich Scott
Current Chief Revenue Officer of Critical Start, former CRO of Xcitium and Comodo
