Vo was one of GeoComply’s original hires in 2012 and has led the engineering organization since 2021

Geolocation technology provider GeoComply Solutions has promoted Steven Vo to the role of chief technology officer (CTO).

Vo was one of GeoComply’s original hires in 2012, and has led the engineering organization since returning in 2021, most recently as senior vice president of engineering. 

He was on the founding team that launched GeoComply’s first geolocation compliance solution for New Jersey in 2013, the first regulated US iGaming market. 

He spent six years away, leading engineering teams at Amazon and Uber on large-scale, real-time systems, and came back to GeoComply in 2021 to run risk and anti-fraud engineering. 

“Our customers rely on us for decisions that carry real regulatory and financial weight, and the person setting our technical direction should have lived those stakes for years, and Steven has,” said GeoComply CEO Kip Levin. “As we expand into new verticals and build for the AI era, that is exactly the kind of leadership our customers should expect.” 

Since returning to GeoComplay, Vo has spearheaded the engineering function behind GeoComply’s expansion into financial services, media and entertainment. He has also set the technical direction for how the company’s location, device, and behavioural intelligence adapts to the new technological era of AI.

GeoComply co-founder and chief product officer David Briggs said: “Steven has been building GeoComply’s technology since almost the beginning, and he understands better than anyone where it needs to go next. Our customers are moving into new markets and facing fraud that gets smarter every month. 

“Having a CTO who both built the foundation and knows our customers’ technical teams by name is exactly what this next stage calls for. I could not be more excited to have Steven in this role.”

GeoComply co-founder and executive chair Anna Sainsbury added: “Steven was in the room when we built the first version of this technology and GeoComply was still proving that compliant geolocation could work at all. He came back to lead the versions that took us beyond gaming, and he has never lost sight of why it matters or who it is for. Promoting Steven to CTO reflects both where GeoComply started and where it’s going.”