Tobias Schweiger is co-founder and chief executive of Hawk, a Munich, Germany, company that sells anti-money-laundering and fraud software to banks and payment firms. Its models attach a plain-language reason to each alert, and he has made that explainability the center of how Hawk sells to banks. Read our review of Hawk.
Finance Operations at ProSiebenSat.1 and PAY.ON
He started in consulting at Roland Berger and earned an MBA at London Business School. His later roles included senior vice president for finance operations at ProSiebenSat.1, the German broadcaster, and chief financial officer and chief operating officer of PAY.ON, a payment gateway company. After ACI Worldwide bought PAY.ON in 2015, he ran operations for ACI on Demand as a vice president.
Explaining AI Decisions to Regulators
Hawk shows the risk factors behind each alert and the range of behaviour its models expect from a customer, so investigators and regulators can follow the decisions. "Financial Institutions and regulators need to be able to understand and trust AI-driven decisions," he told TechCrunch in 2023. "Full explainability of such an AI is the key to establishing trust and acceptance."
