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Advisory Council

Counsel from those who have already been there.

We built and scaled the systems at the heart of the very problem we now solve.

AINATIVE is building an AI-agentic fraud prevention ecosystem that stops fraud before money leaves the account — a multi-agent decision layer where independent AI agents vote on every transaction, eliminating single-model risk.

 

Our advisors are operators who have built and scaled the systems at the heart of the very problem we now solve — across Silicon Valley engineering, Tier 1 banking, enterprise security, deep-tech capital, and venture-building.

We built and scaled the systems at the heart of the very problem we now solve.

AINATIVE is building an AI-agentic fraud prevention ecosystem that stops fraud before money leaves the account — a multi-agent decision layer where independent AI agents vote on every transaction, eliminating single-model risk.

 

Our advisors are operators who have built and scaled the systems at the heart of the very problem we now solve — across Silicon Valley engineering, Tier 1 banking, enterprise security, deep-tech capital, and venture-building.

165+

€1B+

Combined years across banking, AI, security, and venture-building

Security & infrastructure programs delivered

15 yrs

Core engineering inside Google, through its steepest growth phase

5

Distinct disciplines — AI, banking, security, capital, and venture scaling

165+

Combined years across banking, AI, security, and venture-building

15 yrs

Core engineering inside Google, through its steepest growth phase

€1B+

Security & infrastructure programs delivered

5

Distinct disciplines — AI, banking, security, capital, and venture scaling

We choose advisors the way institutions choose us — on track record, not titles.

People who have already done it.

Stop fraud before it happens.

Building an AI-agentic fraud prevention ecosystem for banks, insurers, and telecoms demands more than engineering talent. It demands people who have sat inside the institution, owned the risk, and lived with the cost of a fraud decision that arrived too late.

Our advisors have run global infrastructure at scale, architected billion-euro security systems for Fortune 100 banks, steered turnarounds and M&A across the region, funded the deep-tech companies that define the next decade, and built the operating systems that let young ventures scale without breaking.

They do not simply endorse us. They pressure-test us — on the multi-agent architecture, institutional fit, and the standards required to earn the trust of the world’s most demanding customers.

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Mario

Komparic

EA · FINTECH SECURITY

A co-founder of Trustus Secure Inc. and a leading authority in technology execution across Fortune 100 banking, telecom, and government. He pioneered the adoption of internet technologies in banking and delivered security and infrastructure programs with 1B+ euro budgets — including the 1st internet-banking portal in North America, which resumed NYC operations within minutes of the 9/11 attacks. Senior Enterprise Architect at Lehman Brothers, J.P. Morgan Chase, Rogers, and OMERS.

LEHMAN BROTHERS
CYBERDEFENSE · €1B DEPLOYMENTS

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Boris

Debić

SILICON VALLEY · AI & SYSTEMS

A Silicon Valley technologist with 15 years of Google core engineering experience during the company’s steepest growth, as revenue scaled more than fiftyfold. His work spans applied AI, internet security, global-scale infrastructure, privacy, developer relations and release engineering. He lectures on Artificial Intelligence at ZSEM, directs the ZSEM AI:X:Lab, and authored the Croatian translation of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, combining deep industry expertise with academic leadership in AI.

GOOGLE 15 YEARS
AI LECTURER · SECURITY

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Boris

Debić

SILICON VALLEY · AI & SYSTEMS

A Silicon Valley technologist with 15 years of Google core engineering experience during the company’s steepest growth, as revenue scaled more than fiftyfold. His work spans applied AI, internet security, global-scale infrastructure, privacy, developer relations and release engineering. He lectures on Artificial Intelligence at ZSEM, directs the ZSEM AI:X:Lab, and authored the Croatian translation of Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach, combining deep industry expertise with academic leadership in AI.

GOOGLE 15 YEARS

AI LECTURER · SECURITY

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Mario

Komparic

ENTERPRISE ARCHITECTURE · FINTECH SECURITY

A co-founder of Trustus Secure Inc. and a leading authority in technology execution across Fortune 100 banking, telecom, and government. He pioneered the adoption of internet technologies in banking and delivered security and infrastructure programs with 1B+ euro budgets — including the 1st internet-banking portal in North America, which resumed NYC operations within minutes of the 9/11 attacks. Senior Enterprise Architect at Lehman Brothers, J.P. Morgan Chase, Rogers, and OMERS.

LEHMAN BROTHERS

CYBERDEFENSE · €1B DEPLOYMENTS

  • Trust Security

Krešimir

Bračić

CORPORATE FINANCE · M&A

Transformational executive and M&A advisor with a track record in special situations, turnarounds, and cross-border transactions. As Managing Partner of Corporate Performance Advisory, he coordinates a network of experts and interim managers and has served on the supervisory board of HPB. Investors he worked with invested over 150m EUR in various industries in the region, and he himself often follows. He brings the financial discipline and capital-markets fluency that underpins our path to scale.

M&A ADVISOR
ACCA · EX-HPB BOARD

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Dalibor Marijanović

​DEEP-TECH CAPITAL · INNOVATION

Partner at Vesna Deep-Tech Venture Fund and one of the region’s foremost builders of the innovation ecosystem. As President of the Board at BICRO, he contracted over €50M in R&D investment and processed more than 1,000 projects, helping accelerate innovation and commercialization across the region. He has mentored and invested in deep-tech technology-transfer ventures across CEE for nearly two decades, bridging founders, government, academia, and capital.

VESNA VC
€50M+ DEPLOYED · DEEP TECH

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Dalibor Marijanović

​DEEP-TECH CAPITAL · INNOVATION

Partner at Vesna Deep-Tech Venture Fund and one of the region’s foremost builders of the innovation ecosystem. As President of the Board at BICRO, he contracted over €50M in R&D investment and processed more than 1,000 projects, helping accelerate innovation and commercialization across the region. He has mentored and invested in deep-tech technology-transfer ventures across CEE for nearly two decades, bridging founders, government, academia, and capital.

VESNA VC

€50M+ DEPLOYED · DEEP TECH

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Krešimir

Bračić

CORPORATE FINANCE · M&A

Transformational executive and M&A advisor with a track record in special situations, turnarounds, and cross-border transactions. As Managing Partner of Corporate Performance Advisory, he coordinates a network of experts and interim managers and has served on the supervisory board of HPB. Investors he worked with invested over 150m EUR in various industries in the region, and he himself often follows. He brings the financial discipline and capital-markets fluency that underpins our path to scale.

M&A ADVISOR

ACCA · EX-HPB BOARD

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Christina

Payne

OPERATING SYSTEMS · VENTURE SCALING

An operating-systems designer who turns founder-dependent ventures into disciplined, repeatable organizations without losing entrepreneurial velocity. With 15 years of enterprise transformation across Chevron, Vanguard, and Halliburton, and as founder of Changetique, she builds decision architecture, governance, and repeatable venture lifecycles to enable scale and ensure execution keeps pace with ambition toward general availability

CHANGETIQUE · VENTURE OS
ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION 

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Endorsement is easy.

We asked for scrutiny instead.

Our advisors hold us to the standard our customers will. We disclose outcomes, not the machinery. If your bank, insurer, or telecom is evaluating how to stop fraud before money leaves the account, the conversation begins privately — reviewed personally, by people who have run these systems themselves.

AI-AGENTIC
FRAUD PREVENTION SYSTEM

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Christina

Payne

​OPERATING SYSTEMS · VENTURE SCALING

An operating-systems designer who turns founder-dependent ventures into disciplined, repeatable organizations without losing entrepreneurial velocity. Over fifteen years of enterprise transformation with Chevron, Vanguard, and Halliburton, and as founder of Changetique, she builds decision architecture, governance, and repeatable venture lifecycles enabling scale. She ensures execution keeps pace with ambition toward general availability.

CHANGETIQUE · VENTURE OS

ENTERPRISE TRANSFORMATION 

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Endorsement is easy.

We asked for scrutiny instead.

Our advisors hold us to the standard our customers will. We disclose outcomes, not the machinery

 

If your bank, insurer, or telecom is evaluating how to stop fraud before money leaves the account, the conversation begins privately — reviewed personally, by people who have run these systems themselves.

AI-AGENTIC

FRAUD PREVENTION SYSTEM

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