# Vatsa Narasimha

> Vatsa Narasimha is the CEO of ComplyAdvantage, the London-based regtech building AI-native tools to detect and disrupt financial crime. A ceramics engineer turned consultant turned operator, he ran foreign-exchange platform OANDA before joining ComplyAdvantage as COO/CFO in 2018, then taking the top job in 2022. He has pushed the company past $100M in funding, 3,000+ enterprise customers, and a billion-plus searches a year, while reframing compliance as an asymmetric fight that only AI-native systems can win.

- **Role:** Chief Executive Officer at ComplyAdvantage
- **Organizations:** ComplyAdvantage, OANDA Corporation, The Boston Consulting Group
- **Nationality:** Indian-American
- **Education:** B.Tech (Honors) in Ceramic Sciences and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, MS in Electrical Engineering, Cornell University, MBA, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
- **Known for:** Grew ComplyAdvantage annual recurring revenue by nearly 80% during his time as COO, Expanded total funding to over $100 million, adding Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and Goldman Sachs as investors, Oversaw a platform processing over 1 billion searches across 150 million daily-monitored entities

## Career timeline

- **pre-2013** — Principal at The Boston Consulting Group for roughly eight years, advising financial institutions on growth strategy, corporate development, and operations
- **2013** — Joined OANDA Corporation in September as COO, CFO, and Executive Vice President
- **2017** — Promoted to President and CEO of OANDA
- **2018** — Joined ComplyAdvantage as Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer
- **2022** — Promoted to Chief Executive Officer of ComplyAdvantage (effective October 13, 2022)
- **2025** — Launched Mesh, ComplyAdvantage's AI-native unified financial crime compliance platform

## Achievements

- Grew ComplyAdvantage annual recurring revenue by nearly 80% during his time as COO
- Expanded total funding to over $100 million, adding Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan and Goldman Sachs as investors
- Oversaw a platform processing over 1 billion searches across 150 million daily-monitored entities
- Increased Transaction Risk Monitoring volumes by 4x and doubled Customer Screening search volumes quarter over quarter
- Led the 2025 launch of Mesh, an agentic-AI platform that cuts false positives by up to 70% and speeds investigations up to 84%
- Scaled the company to serve 3,000+ enterprises across 75 countries

## Latest updates

- **2025-10** — Launched Mesh, an AI-native platform unifying screening, risk scoring, transaction monitoring, and payments analysis, featuring agentic AI named Cassie.
- **2022-10** — Named Chief Executive Officer of ComplyAdvantage, promoted from COO.

## Links

- Website: https://complyadvantage.com
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vatsanarasimha/
- Twitter/X: https://twitter.com/ComplyAdvantage
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/complyadvantage/

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Last updated: 2026-06-04