Anti-financial crime technology provider Hawk, has appointed Eli Chamoun as President and Chief Revenue Officer to lead its revenue strategy as it seeks to expand adoption of its artificial intelligence technology among banks and payment companies.
Chamoun will oversee Hawk’s global revenue strategy and operations, develop its go-to-market team and deepen relationships with banks, payment companies and partners. He previously spent 18 years at NICE Actimize, where he served as Global Vice President and Global Head of Sales.
Hawk is positioning the appointment around the governance and expansion of AI deployments in anti-money laundering (AML), screening and fraud prevention. The company says financial institutions are using machine learning, generative AI and agentic AI to improve crime detection and investigation.
Tobias Schweiger, CEO and Co-Founder of Hawk, said: “AI in anti-financial crime has reached an inflection point. Financial institutions are seeing positive results from AI deployments — these now need to be governed and scaled with confidence, especially as agentic AI capabilities and large language models continue to open fresh possibilities.”
Schweiger cited FinCEN’s proposed rule reforms as an indication that regulators will place greater emphasis on the effectiveness of AI-driven compliance.
Chamoun said the market needs AI-based platforms that can produce demonstrable operational results quickly while providing explainability across sectors and geographies. He also identified accurate detection and efficient investigation as important capabilities.
Hawk’s recent product work includes agentic AI for AML investigations. The company has also reported results from its partnership with Commerzbank, where it said its technology detected more novel money-laundering cases while increasing alert accuracy to reduce false positives.
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