Ohad Samet

Chief Risk Officer at Klarna

Expertise

Risk management for payments

Bio

Ohad Samet is the Chief Risk Officer of Klarna, a payments company operating in Europe and a 2012 Crunchies award nominee.

Ohad is also an active blogger in the field of risk management for payments.

Ohad started his career in technology as the head of fraud analysis for FraudSciences, a company offering high risk payment solutions. After FraudSciences was acquired by PayPal (Jan 2008) Ohad served in various roles, most recently as Sr. manager of New Ventures Risk, in charge of risk management for mobile payments, gaming and PayPalX.

Ohad left PayPal in 2010 to pursue a few projects, including the social anti virus Signifyd (http://www.signifyd.com) and the consulting firm Analyzd (http://www.analyzd.com). In 2011, Analyzd was acquired by Klarna.