Headquarters:

London, United Kingdom

Year founded:

2018

Number of employees:

100+

Phone:

07 3847 8119

Email:

kjones@fbaa.com.au

Website:

veremark.com

LinkedIn:

linkedin.com/company/veremark

Daniel Callaghan

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Daniel Braithwaite

Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder

Angus Bankes

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder

Leadership

Daniel Callaghan is CEO and co-founder of Veremark, a global background screening platform. He sets strategy and champions a product-led, compliance-by-design approach to source-verified checks across 180+ countries. Under his leadership, Veremark focuses on clarity, speed and auditability: jurisdiction-aware rules, full evidence trails, live status and ETAs and native integrations with leading ATS and HRIS systems. Callaghan works closely with clients, regulators and partners to raise quality while reducing friction for candidates and recruiters. He builds candid, outcome-oriented teams and measures success by accuracy, turnaround, customer satisfaction and trust. His goal is simple: help the world trust faster.

Chief Executive Officer and Co-Founder

Daniel Callaghan

Daniel Braithwaite is co-founder and chief product officer at Veremark, where he leads product strategy and roadmap for global background screening. He focuses on clarity, speed and auditability, shaping source-verified checks across over 180 countries. Braithwaite partners with clients, engineering and compliance to build jurisdiction-aware rules, consent and retention controls and full evidence trails. He champions clean workflows, live status and ETAs and native integrations with leading ATS and HRIS systems to remove manual work. Braithwaite measures impact by accuracy, turnaround and customer satisfaction, and he builds teams that ship responsibly. His goal is a single, trusted global standard for screening.

Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder

Daniel Braithwaite

Angus Bankes is co-founder and chief technology officer at Veremark, leading platform architecture, data strategy and engineering for global background screening. He builds systems that are secure, scalable and reliable, with privacy by design at every layer. Bankes oversees verification pipelines, evidence storage and jurisdiction-aware controls that keep checks lawful across over 180 countries. He partners with product and compliance to deliver fast, source-verified results with clear audit trails, status and predictable SLAs. He champions clean integrations with ATS and HRIS platforms and a culture of high-quality code, observability and continuous improvement. His aim is simple: trustworthy infrastructure for people decisions.

Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder

Angus Bankes

Tricia Kopka

Head of Operations and Process and Improvement

Tricia Kopka is a highly experienced operations leader with a strong track record managing teams across various sectors, primarily in banking and financial services. She played a key role in the rebranding of the business to IQumulate Premium Funding in 2019 and was subsequently promoted to operations manager and project specialist. Since then, Kopka has been part of the IQumulate Leadership team, overseeing the loan origination teams and driving core strategic projects to enhance processes within the company. She leverages smart technology and automation to deliver faster, more successful outcomes.

Head of Operations and Process and Improvement

Tricia Kopka

Josh Crawford

Vice President of Training & Development

Josh Crawford is a leader in the financial services industry, bringing the power of Nobel Prize-winning investing science to communities across the US and Puerto Rico. His expertise includes leading breakthrough educational experiences to hundreds of advisors and thousands of their clients, helping lead and engineer innovative advisor training programs, and training and developing entrepreneurs to expand themselves and their businesses. As vice president of training and development at Matson Money, he is instrumental in bringing the American Dream Experience to families across North America.

Vice President of Training & Development

Josh Crawford

Matt Matson

Vice President of Technology

Francine Minervini 

Senior Vice President, Chief Technical Claims Officer

Nicholas Webber

VP, WC Litigation 

Pam Chhabra

Manager – Residential Strata

A founding team member of Matson Money, Matt Matson has brought innovation to the organization through the implementation of technological advancements since the early 1990s. He put Matson at the forefront of the industry by pioneering its online presence in the early days. For 10 years, Matt guided the firm’s technology and design teams, expanding them into full design, development, and networking departments. He returned in 2018 to revolutionize Matson Money’s technology by championing the new Matson Tech team. Matson Tech is reimagining how technology can fulfill the promise of bringing purpose and the American Dream to every family it serves.

Vice President of Technology

Matt Matson

Francine Minervini is chief technical claims officer at Arch Insurance. She joined the company in 2007 as an assistant vice president in the casualty division and has held various roles of increasing responsibility in the claims department, ultimately being promoted to senior vice president in 2018. Prior to joining Arch, Minervini held several claims handling roles with AIG. She has her JD from New England School of Law and a Bachelor of Arts in political science from Seton Hall University. She is licensed to practice law in New Jersey and New York. 

Senior Vice President, Chief Technical Claims Officer 

Francine Minervini 

Cemal Akgul sees the head of risk and collections role as pivotal in guiding and influencing business decisions. He has more than 15 years of experience across financial and government services, most recently with the NDIS, where he was the leading consultant driving the Risk Management process’ nationwide. Prior to that, he served various roles at BMW Finance across the United States, Hong Kong, Germany and Australia. During Akgul’s tenure at BMW Finance, he predominately worked in risk management, guiding the organisation through seismic changes between 2016 and 2018. In his time prior, he was based out of New York, leading BMW Finance’s American subsidiary's market risk and data analytics teams between 2011 and 2016. Akgul values a balanced approach to business, encourages a positive work culture and is passionate about teaching and guiding the business and individuals at IQumulate.

Head of Risk and Collections

Cemal Akgul

Stephen McMillan first entered the financial services Industry when he joined GE Capital as a finance analyst in 2008, from which he progressed through roles working both onshore and offshore. From there, he moved into Pacific Premium Funding as a financial planning and analysis leader in 2012 and was a key resource in the evolution of the business, first with the successful sale to Macquarie Pacific Funding and then the following progression into IQumulate Premium Funding, where he is now the commercial manager. As commercial manager, McMillan leads a team that is responsible for commercial analysis and business support, identifying and reporting improvement initiatives, and the securitization and treasury functions of the business.

Commercial Manager

Stephen McMillan

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“Our mindset is simple. Keep building a single global standard for lawful, source-verified screening, and make it faster, clearer and easier to use”

Daniel Callaghan, Veremark

“We verify facts at source and standardise lawful screening wherever you hire, so offers move sooner, exceptions drop and managers get decisions they can stand behind, while candidates get a clear, respectful experience”

Daniel Callaghan, Veremark

In the global background screening sphere, Veremark stands out as one of the industry’s finest. The firm provides organisations with source-verified background checks for over 180 countries, with rapid and accurate results which give hiring teams crucial clarity on candidates. With live status and ETAs, recruiters are able to get full transparency on their request’s progress, while results include full audit trails and reason codes. Candidate flows are designed to be clear, mobile-first and multilingual, which increases completion rates without compromising accuracy. These features allow organisations to hire confidently while adhering strictly to local regulations. Veremark’s international criminal record and pre-employment check capabilities reduce hiring risks, using jurisdiction-aware guardrails to protect organisations. Veremark’s screening tools are an excellent time-saver for organisations. Requests from Veremark’s ATS and HRIS integrations are automated, significantly reducing the time needed for hiring teams to process potential hires, allowing them to focus their time on candidates and hiring procedures. These efficiencies translate into measurable savings in recruiter time and a reduction in failed hires. Downstream, the improved quality of hire leads to lower early attrition and fewer remediation cycles, supporting long-term business success.

IQumulate invests in education and people, which are vital to attracting new business and talent to the company. “We have long tenures for several of our key staff, including some in leadership positions, and this sound working knowledge of our business, practices and industry provides great insights and a wealth of experience to offer our clients,” says Bastow. “Our new head of sales, Graeme Gordon, formerly manager for New Zealand, joins us in Australia to drive our sales strategy and lead our team to successful outcomes for our clients and our business. We look forward to great things ahead with Graeme as he continues to be active and present in the New Zealand market as well as building sound working relationships and new connections in Australia.” Clients can also expect a lot from working with IQumulate. “Through active engagement with our trusted broker network, IQumulate provides relevant information, education and training content,” says Graeme Gordon, head of sales. “Our clients can expect IQumulate to support their business in several ways, providing an understanding of what premium funding solutions are available and how IQumulate can spread the cost of insurance and help borrowers get the right level of insurance cover to free up their cash flow for other expenses or business growth opportunities. Premium funding is often considered a tool for those who simply cannot afford to pay their premiums in full. While this is certainly a significant driver for many, it is also successfully used by profitable companies who use premium funding to manage their cash flows more wisely or better manage their liquidity.”

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“Too many hiring teams still feel forced to choose between speed and diligence. Slow, manual checks and inconsistent rules across markets add friction and create surprises late in the process,” says Daniel Callaghan, CEO and co-founder. “We verify facts at the source and standardise lawful screening wherever you hire, so offers move sooner, exceptions drop and managers get decisions they can stand behind, while candidates get a clear, respectful experience.” Veremark’s tools enable hiring teams to separate fact from fiction, delivering recruiters a clear picture of a candidate. “Hiring teams face three recurring issues: risk from inaccurate or misrepresented credentials, operational drag from manual and fragmented checks, and legal exposure across different jurisdictions,” says Callaghan. “Background screening addresses these by confirming facts at source, standardising lawful checks across countries and giving recruiters clear, decision-ready reports.” When working with Veremark, recruiters can expect a high level of professionalism, backed by Veremark’s exceptional leadership team, whose “help the world trust faster” mantra guides their internal goals.

This leadership team includes: Daniel Callaghan, CEO and co-founder: sets the company’s strategy and growth agenda Daniel Braithwaite, co-founder and chief product officer: leads product direction and roadmap Angus Bankes, co-founder and chief technology officer: guides platform architecture, data strategy, and scaling. Veremark’s next phase focuses on global delivery, ensuring a consistent standard of lawful, source-verified screening operates seamlessly in every market where its customers hire. The company is expanding in-region operations and support, enhancing integrations with the HR systems that teams already use and strengthening jurisdiction-aware rules and language coverage to keep candidate flows clear and compliant. For enterprises scaling across borders, Veremark’s goal is straightforward: fewer handoffs, faster decision-making and reports that are consistent and easily understood worldwide. Callaghan explains, “Our mindset is simple. Keep building a single global standard for lawful, source-verified screening, and make it faster, clearer and easier to use. We’re building for that reality with in-time-zone delivery, local expertise and tighter integrations so leaders can grow internationally with one playbook and the same decision-ready results in every market.”