GeoComply Appoints Steven Vo as Chief Technology Officer After Internal Promotion

GeoComply has promoted Steven Vo to chief technology officer (CTO), advancing an executive with deep experience in the company’s engineering and risk management leadership. Vo’s internal promotion comes as GeoComply seeks to extend its reach beyond its core geolocation business and respond to evolving fraud and artificial intelligence challenges in regulated markets.

GeoComply's Internal CTO Appointment: Experience and Continuity

GeoComply’s decision to elevate Steven Vo to the CTO position follows a pattern of promoting from within during a period of sustained growth. Vo joined the company in 2012 as a director, departed in 2015, and returned in November 2021 as director of engineering, risk, and antifraud. Since then, he moved through a series of senior engineering roles, including vice-president of engineering in late 2023 and senior vice-president from January 2026. Over almost five years in his second tenure with GeoComply, Vo led key technical initiatives underpinning the company’s push into sectors like financial services and media & entertainment.

David Briggs, GeoComply’s co-founder and chief product officer, commented:

“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.”

Steven Vo’s Background: Industry and Big Tech Experience

Between his first and second time at GeoComply, Steven Vo held roles at two US tech giants. From 2016 to 2019, he was a software development manager at Amazon. After that, he became an engineering manager at Uber, serving from July 2019 until November 2021.

Vo’s LinkedIn announcement about his new position referenced his early work with GeoComply for New Jersey’s launch, noting that “it still feels like we are just getting started.” He highlighted the advancement of the company’s engineering and product teams and expressed appreciation for the leadership group, including co-founder and executive chair Anna Sainsbury, co-founder David Briggs, and CEO Kip Levin.

Expanding GeoComply’s AI and Risk Technology

A key task for Vo as CTO is advancing GeoComply’s use of artificial intelligence both in building new products and in protecting the company and its clients from AI-driven threats. Vo has already been credited internally with, in the words of the firm, “establishing the technical direction for how the company’s location, device, and behavioural intelligence adapts to the new technological era of AI.”

Moving forward, he will oversee the technical strategy behind GeoComply’s expansion into verticals beyond gaming, including:

• Financial services
• Media and entertainment
• Other regulated markets

He is specifically charged with accelerating growth in these sectors and ensuring the company’s location and fraud prevention technologies evolve to match new challenges, especially as AI reshapes both positive product opportunities and adversarial risk landscapes. As stated by GeoComply, Vo will be “shaping how GeoComply builds with AI and defends against it.”

Recent Leadership Moves and Corporate Context

GeoComply’s internal promotions have taken place during a period of board-level change. Kip Levin, formerly with the company, was named CEO in January 2025. This was quickly followed by the hiring of Marco Stotani as chief business officer in March 2025. For executive recruitment, GeoComply engages Arnold Ash, which EGR describes as its partner for sourcing senior talent within the industry.

Recruitment and retention of high-calibre technology leaders have become competitive factors in the b2b sector as compliance, fraud prevention, and AI capabilities remain under scrutiny in every major regulated market. Firms operating in adjacent spaces—including sports betting, payments, and online casino—have moved to target similar leadership profiles for their technology teams, aiming to bridge legacy infrastructure with new digital demands.

GeoComply CTO Role: AI, Regulation, and Market Pressures

Under Steven Vo, GeoComply’s technical organisation is expected to intensify efforts to:

• Develop new use cases for geolocation and device intelligence within and beyond gaming
• Strengthen defences against increasingly sophisticated fraud
• Keep pace with emerging regulatory demands in the US, Europe, and other major markets

The company positions itself as a trusted supplier of compliance and risk tools to operators, platforms, and regulators. Its ongoing leadership changes are read by some market watchers as a sign of aggressive pursuit of new sectors and products.

GeoComply’s ability to match advancing AI-based threats is expected to become a core operational benchmark for clients and partners navigating evolving compliance rules, including those covered in regulation updates. Competitors and new entrants with backgrounds at major technology employers signal continued tight competition for technical leadership talent.

"What I'm most excited about in the new role is honestly the team! Our rockstar engineering and product teams have grown so much these past few years, and I've grown right along with them." — Steven Vo

How Vo’s promotion changes product delivery, adaptation to AI threats, and market priorities will be determined in the year ahead.