About Ethoca
Founded in 2005 with on-the-ground personnel in Toronto, New York, Austin, London, Dublin and Frankfurt am Main.
Ethoca relentlessly established itself as an innovative, one-of-a-kind global collaboration-based technology services company tackling the major issues and opportunities in CNP payments. Ethoca’s network consists of card issuing banks and online merchants working cooperatively together through a single, automated, secure connection outside the payment networks stream to their mutual benefit.
It’s well known that countless times a day, card issuers all over the world confirm and identify fraudulent and/or suspicious transactions that have gone through merchant systems undetected, resulting in unnecessary financial losses, administrative costs and frustrations for the merchants. Those participating on Ethoca’s platform benefit greatly as these financial losses are largely reduced and turns years of frustration into celebrations by uniquely bridging the information gap that’s existed between the two parties that have the financial liability for the transactions - merchants and card issuers.
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Ethoca’s unique collaboration platform attacks CNP fraud in a powerful new way. In an unprecedented manner, we securely connect card issuers to online merchants to recapture unnecessarily lost revenues and fraud that slips through the cracks of their defences.
Co-Founder & CEO
Andre Edelbrock co-founded Ethoca Technologies, Inc., in 2005 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Edelbrock is a leading expert in online payment systems, risk, fraud and product management. Before joining Ethoca in 2005, Mr. Edelbrock headed the department responsible for all international e-cash services and operations at CryptoLogic. Mr. Edelbrock also spent two years with Procuron, an Internet B2B marketplace start-up founded by Bell Canada, CIBC, Scotiabank and Desjardins, where he played a key role in strategy, development and sales. Earlier in his career, he served as a management consultant at the Canadian offices of Deloitte Consulting and IBM. He serves as an Executive Director of Ethoca Technologies; Inc. Mr. Edelbrock holds an Honours Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Design Engineering from the University of Waterloo.
Trained as a lawyer, engineer and businessman, Darryl Green spent six years working at Tucows Inc., a publicly listed Internet services company (AMEX: TCX, TSX: TC). Green was a key member of a team that found and integrated new lines of business, including the wholesale distribution of domain registrations, security certificates, outsourced email services, payment services, and billing services. Green personally managed the evaluation and addition of these lines of business by means of organic development, strategic partnership and corporate acquisition. Prior to this, Green worked at the law firm Davies Ward and Beck, and has worked as an engineer for Nortel, General Motors, Solvay Automotive and Dow Chemical. He has a Bachelor of Engineering Science and LL.B and MBA degrees from the University of Western Ontario.
As one of the founder of Ethoca and Executive Vice President of Issuer Relations Trevor’s responsible for the engagement and on-going success of Card Issuer participation on the Ethoca platform. Trevor has served multiple roles within Ethoca including CTO where he led the build-out of the Ethoca platform and supporting operations while managing the engineering, operations and security functions within the organization. Concurrently, he also developed Ethoca’s Channel Partner program and worked with PSPs, Gateways and ISOs to rapidly expand the reach of the collaborative network and stop more fraud and chargebacks. Trevor is now fully engaged on expanding Card Issuer participation and working closely with both merchants and issuers to define and deliver more collaborative solutions that yield mutual benefit. Prior to starting Ethoca, Trevor spent his time working with major telecommunications carriers, financial institutions and online gambling while with Deloitte Consulting, IBM and CryptoLogic.
As the Chief Technology Officer at Ethoca, Kevin Viggers brings years of technology and product development experience. Prior to joining Ethoca, he was a Director at Oracle within the CRM On Demand organization providing leadership for multiple global product development and quality assurance teams responsible for delivering customer value on a multi-tenant SaaS platform. Kevin has spent the majority of his career in the CRM space, working previously at Siebel Systems leading development teams spanning various industries including investment and retail banking, hospitality, and pharmaceutical sales and at Janna Systems prior to that. He started his career at Nortel Networks as a software engineer. Kevin is an alumnus of the University of Waterloo holding a Bachelor of Science degree in Systems Design Engineering.
Julie Fergerson, Senior Vice President of Industry Solutions at Ethoca, is one of the industry’s foremost experts on Internet payments fraud. Fergerson has over 20 years of experience in the online payments and fraud management industry and holds patents for secure transaction order management processing and preventing fraudulent electronic transactions. She joined Ethoca in 2010 to help drive adoption of its collaborative ecommerce fraud prevention platform. Before joining Ethoca, Fergerson was Vice President of Emerging Technologies at Debix and Co-Founder and Vice President of Emerging Technologies at ClearCommerce. She is a co-founder of the Merchant Risk Council (MRC) and an ITRC board member, where she created and lead the Victim Assistance Program, a collaborative effort between the National Cyber Forensics Training Alliance (NCTFA), the ITRC and Debix to provide notification and assistance to consumers whose identities have been compromised and found on crime servers by law enforcement.