背景调查公司Onfido 已委任前谷歌主管爱德华温加尔作为其首席商务官， 意在促进公司的国际扩张。
公司成立于 2012 年，总部位于伦敦。最近公司把业务延伸到美国，而温加尔将引领全球客户关系走出旧金山。
目前已有 Deliveroo、 Handy 和 Onefinestay甚至英国 NHS在使用该平台，这一平台可以帮助使用者成批量的检查用户信息。
温加尔以前是谷歌欧洲,中东和非洲地区的业务渠道合作伙伴主任，并对欧洲互联网巨头广告商负责。
为了实现雄心勃勃的计划，Onfido 2月份进行了 $4.5m A轮融资，投资者包括 CrunchFund 和Wellington Partners， 还把Brent Hoberman算做其明星支持者。
“全球共享经济从根本上改变了世界各国之间提供货物和服务的方式”，Onfido 的联合创始人兼首席执行官侯赛因卡萨伊说道。我们在美国以及其他地区投入的资源很重要，正是这些资源的投入得以满足不断增长的全球市场独特需求。
“成千上万的公司想要通过这一平台对他们的会员和承包商的背景信息和身份进行彻底和有效地检查，让其客户之间产生信任，而艾德作为领导确保我们能正面迎接这一挑战”。
这家公司还任命了牛津大学教授菲利普 · 托到其 Onfido 咨询委员会以帮助发展机器学习能力相应的软件。
Onfido bags ex-Google director as commercial head
Sharing economy background checker Onfido has appointed ex-Google director Edward Ungar as its first ever chief commercial officer focused on driving the company’s international expansion.
London-based startup, founded in 2012, recently opened up in the US and Ungar will lead global client relationships out of San Francisco.
The platform is already used by the likes of Deliveroo, Handy and Onefinestay, and even the UK’s NHS, to check the identities of their users at scale.
Ungar was previously Google’s director of channel partnerships for EMEA, looking after the internet giant’s ad clients in Europe.
To help deliver on its ambitious plans, Onfido raised a $4.5m Series A round back in February, which was joined by CrunchFund and Wellington Partners, and it counts Brent Hoberman among its star backers.
“The global sharing economy is fundamentally changing the way people provide goods and services to one another around the globe,” said Husayn Kassai, Onfido’s cofounder and CEO. “It’s important that we invest resources in the US — along with other regions — to meet the unique and growing global market needs.
“Thousands of companies need to thoroughly and efficiently check the backgrounds and identity of the members and contractors who want to work through their platform so as to engender trust among their customers. Ed’s leadership ensures we meet that challenge head-on.”
The company has also appointed Oxford University Professor Philip Torr to its Onfido’s advisory board in order to help develop the machine learning capabilities of its software.
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