✨ Featurespace announces new leadership for exciting next chapter✨ Today, we announce that our CEO, Martina King, will retire following Featurespace’s successful acquisition by Visa. Jason Blackhurst, who joins from Visa, will take over to lead Featurespace, bringing with him over 30 years of experience in the financial services industry. Jason is known for his passion for innovation and strong leadership skills, and we’re excited to enter the next chapter with him at the helm! 🎉 In addition to Blackhurst's appointment, we are reinforcing our commitment to our academic heritage by securing a 6️⃣ six-year lease at our current head office in Cambridge. This investment underscores our longstanding ties to the University of Cambridge where we started, with Visa's dedication to fostering innovation within the vibrant Cambridge technology ecosystem. We’d like to thank Martina for the last 12 years 💕 – her infectious energy, tenacity and visionary leadership helped Featurespace grow into a global leader in machine learning-powered fraud detection, and now, a part of the Visa family 🦾 You can read the full press release here: https://lnkd.in/eu2wDf9S
Yes! Congrats Jason Blackhurst, the team is incredibly lucky to have you!
Martina, Congrats on your successful stewardship and best wishes to you and Simon on your well deserved retirement 😊
Enjoy your next adventure Martina , it was a pleasure to work for you at Featurespace x
Thank you so much for everything you've done to make Featurespace the powerhouse it is today, Martina King - you will be missed but if ever there was a retirement well deserved, it's yours! 🦾 Jason Blackhurst welcome to the team! We are so excited about what the future will bring. 🚀
Congratulations Martina King, looking forward to see what comes next, well done
Congratulations Martina. I am so glad I got a chance to work with you.
Congratulations Jason Blackhurst !
All the best Martina King . Congratulations on your achievements at Featurspace and beyond!
Congratulations Martina on an amazing job and congrats and good luck to Jason!
Fighting fraud and financial crime with award-winning machine learning technology at Featurespace
1wThank you Martina King for your unwavering leadership and everything you have done to build Featurespace into the amazing organization it is today. Looking forward to continuing to grow our impact, making the world a safer place to transact, under the leadership of Jason Blackhurst as part of Visa!