Hawk Names Eli Chamoun President and Chief Revenue Officer

Hawk, founded in Munich in 2018, provides AI-powered anti-money laundering, screening and fraud-prevention technology to banks and payment companies. The appointment comes as financial institutions step up their use of machine learning, generative AI and agentic AI to improve crime detection and investigations. The strategic challenge is moving those tools into governed, explainable deployments that can reduce false alerts while satisfying regulators, making commercial leadership increasingly important in the expanding financial-crime technology market.

Hawk appointed Eli Chamoun as president and chief revenue officer on July 22, 2026, putting him in charge of global revenue strategy and operations, partner relationships and the expansion of its go-to-market team. Chamoun brings more than 20 years of financial-crime and compliance experience, including 18 years at NICE Actimize. He served as global vice president and global head of sales there, overseeing a portfolio worth several hundred million dollars, as Hawk seeks to accelerate adoption among banks and payment providers worldwide.