Skip to content

Meet the Team

At Fortza, a TDigital Product, we don’t just detect fraud — we redefine digital integrity.

Our team blends behavioral science, enterprise data strategy, and AI architecture to build systems that can’t be gamed and insights that can’t be faked.

Each of us brings a unique lens, but we share one conviction: technology should strengthen human trust, not replace it.

1

Sarah Thanawalla

Chief Executive Officer
 Sarah believes in leading with evidence, not assumption. Her approach is grounded in research-backed innovation — leveraging access to public institutional research and Fortza’s proprietary studies to build verifiable, bias-resistant fraud detection frameworks.
With a background in neuroscience and enterprise systems, she ensures every layer of Fortza’s AI architecture is defensible, auditable, and rooted in data integrity — not marketing gloss.

“If it can’t be replicated, it can’t be trusted. That’s why Fortza builds on peer-reviewed logic, not black-box promises.”

3

Kimberly Perez

Strategic Communications Advisor
 Kimberly translates complexity into clarity. She ensures that every Fortza message — whether technical documentation or public release — upholds the principles of transparency and precision. Her philosophy: credibility is earned through clear communication and consistent follow-through.

“Innovation doesn’t need jargon to sound intelligent. It needs truth told well.”

2

Johnny Melendez

Account Executive
 Johnny embodies the principle of trust through partnership. He doesn’t sell features — he builds relationships grounded in measurable outcomes. His role centers on helping clients understand not just what Fortza does, but why it matters: reducing fraud without eroding customer experience or operational agility.

“When a client trusts us with their data, that’s not a transaction — that’s a responsibility.”

Talk Fraud with Me
4

Omkar Joshi

Project Manager
 Omkar delivers excellence through disciplined execution. He ensures every Fortza implementation meets enterprise standards for security, scalability, and delivery speed. By combining agile methodology with a deep respect for process, he turns innovation into something predictable, repeatable, and dependable.

“Innovation means nothing without delivery discipline — our clients trust us to do both.”

Our mission

We build at the intersection of behavioral intelligence, cloud engineering, and ethical AI — reducing risk and strengthening trust.

Our Philosophy

At the core of Fortza — and TDigital — are four principles that guide everything we build, research, and release into the world:

Trust

We believe trust is measurable. Every model, every dataset, and every client interaction should withstand scrutiny. Our commitment to transparency means we publish methodologies, validate with third-party research, and never hide behind proprietary opacity.

Integrity

Innovation isn’t novelty for its own sake — it’s problem-solving with rigor. We prototype fast, but validate even faster, drawing from academic partnerships, open data initiatives, and in-house behavioral modeling to push beyond traditional fraud analytics.

Excellence

We pursue excellence not as perfection, but as consistency. Our systems are built to perform under enterprise load, meet compliance standards, and evolve alongside new fraud patterns. Excellence, to us, is a moving target — and we chase it relentlessly.

Community

Technology doesn’t exist in isolation. Through Pledge 1%, mentorship programs, and pro-bono consulting initiatives, we invest our time, products, and profit back into the ecosystems that shaped us. Because the fight against fraud — and the future of tech — is a shared responsibility.

Join our team

We’re building technology that protects real people — and we need people who care about impact as much as innovation.


If you’re driven by integrity, curious about behavioral data, and energized by solving problems that actually matter — let’s talk.

Get in touch