SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., July 6, 2026. Trusona, the identity impersonation detection company built on the belief that you should know who you’re dealing with online, today announced the appointment of Chris Purvis as Chief Business Officer. Trusona’s Account Takeover Protect (ATO Protect) suite stops identity impersonators before they lead to breaches by requiring real-time identity verification, foiling GenAI deepfakes and social engineering regardless of channel. Chris will lead Trusona’s commercial organization, with responsibility for revenue, partnerships, and marketing as the company scales ATO Protect across the enterprise.
Purvis brings more than two decades on the front lines of financial technology, fraud prevention, and identity security. He began his career on the technology team at Bank of America in 2001, where he helped run and then build the bank’s early online banking platform, including one of the industry’s first free bill pay rollouts. When the iPhone arrived, he moved to mobile banking and took on the security work that came with letting customers move money, open accounts, and send wires from a phone.
In 2013 he joined InAuth, a mobile security and device intelligence startup, as vice president of technology sales. InAuth signed many of the largest banks in the U.S. and expanded across Europe and Asia Pacific before American Express acquired it in 2016. At American Express, Chris worked on the credit side across retail, e-commerce, and card payments. Most recently he served as director of business development at GeoComply, the geolocation and fraud-prevention firm, where he led its move beyond iGaming into financial services, fintech, and crypto.
That background fits the problem Trusona solves. Chris has spent his career alongside the banks and fraud teams that protect high-value transactions, from securing mobile banking at Bank of America to selling device intelligence at InAuth to fighting location and identity fraud at GeoComply. It is the same fight ATO Protect takes on: proving who is really on the other end before an attacker can talk their way past the help desk. As Chief Business Officer, Purvis will focus that experience on Trusona’s core markets, stopping account takeover at the IT help desk, in customer account recovery, and in HR and candidate verification, where GenAI has turned real-time identity verification into a requirement.
About Trusona
Trusona is built on a simple belief: you should know who you’re dealing with online. Its name combines true and persona, because trust starts with knowing the real person behind the screen. As cyber gangs such as Scattered Spider (ShinyHunters) exploit identity gaps, Trusona built ATO Protect to stop account takeovers before they lead to breaches, ransomware or worse. The company’s vision is to restore confidence in digital identity by thwarting account recovery hacks, combating GenAI deepfakes and foiling the most advanced identity threats.
Founded in 2015 by fraud-prevention expert Ori Eisen, Trusona is funded by Kleiner Perkins and advised by industry luminaries including Frank Abagnale. For more information on ATO Protect and how to defend against social-engineering attacks, please visit www.trusona.com.