Andrew Sever

Co-founder and CEO of Sumsub

Building teams, products, and trust

Andrew Sever, Sumsub co-founder and CEO, heads a leading full-cycle verification platform trusted by 4,000+ clients worldwide. Since launching the company in 2015 with his brothers and CTO Vyacheslav Zholudev, he has led its global expansion, growing a team of 1,000+ across eight offices and earning recognition from Gartner, Forrester, and IDC.

Andrew oversees Sumsub’s growth strategy, product direction, and culture—focusing on teamwork, shared ownership, and long-term thinking.

This site offers a practical overview of his work, media features, and a glimpse into his interests beyond business, including training and long-term performance.

2015
Founded Sumsub

1000+
Employees

4,000+
Clients

220+
Countries

8
Offices

Founder, CEO, and
long-term builder

Andrew Sever co-founded Sumsub in 2015 and has guided it from a small startup into a global verification platform with 1000+ employees across eight offices, supporting more than 4,000 clients in 220+ countries and territories.

As a leader, Andrew builds through conversation. He constantly stress-tests ideas with his brothers, the leadership team, customers, and partners—bringing people who see different parts of a problem into the same room. His strength lies in turning complexity into clarity, creating alignment, and driving product momentum. His long-term focus is on building real-world defenses against fraud and making verification faster, fairer, and more human for businesses and users everywhere.

Andrew’s commentary and insights have been featured in Forbes, The Business Times, Spiceworks, Fintech Finance, and other international outlets. As CEO, he oversees business development, operations, sales, and Sumsub’s global expansion, while staying deeply involved in product direction and team culture.

Outside of work, Andrew treats training as part of leadership rather than a hobby. He sees mind and body as one system, where movement, recovery, and mental clarity are tightly connected. He trains for IRONMAN 70.3 and Oceanman with a structured, data-driven approach, working with coaches and medical specialists and paying close attention to recovery and long-term performance.

Endurance sports, especially open-water swimming, sharpen his ability to stay composed under uncertainty — a skill he values as much in leadership as in competition. Andrew is also curious about health data, using wearables thoughtfully rather than dogmatically, and he actively supports team sport initiatives at Sumsub for their cognitive and cultural benefits.

About
Sumsub

Sumsub is a leading full-cycle verification platform that enables scalable compliance

From the outset, its focus has been practical: enabling identity and business verification, continuous monitoring, and compliance that adapt to changing regulations, market demands, and risk profiles without slowing growth.

Founded in 2015, Sumsub began as a tool for detecting manipulated graphics. That work quickly evolved into a fast, precise KYC solution, laying the foundation for a full-cycle verification platform. Over time, the scope expanded beyond onboarding to address fraud and compliance across the entire user lifecycle.

Today, Sumsub operates as a verification and compliance platform, verifying more than one million people daily and blocking thousands of fraud attempts. Adaptive AI powers scalable identity operations across users, businesses, and transactions, with continuous protection replacing one-time checks as risks evolve.

How It Works

A core component of the platform is AI-powered anti-money laundering transaction monitoring. Sumsub’s AML tools flag and block suspicious activity in real time, combining advanced anomaly detection with clear, regulator-ready audit trails. This helps clients prevent financial crime while reducing false positives, operational burden, and regulatory exposure.

To support global onboarding, Sumsub enables verification in over 55 languages and across more than 14,000 document types. This allows businesses to onboard users worldwide while maintaining security, compliance, and accessibility across markets with uneven infrastructure.

The company was founded by Andrew Sever, a trained physicist, together with his twin brothers Peter and Jacob, specialists in computer graphics and animation, and Vyacheslav Zholudev, a solution architect with a PhD in computer science. This multidisciplinary background shaped Sumsub’s product-driven and technically rigorous approach from the start.

Today, Sumsub serves more than 4,000 companies worldwide, including Vodafone, Kaizen Gaming, Duolingo, Flipper, TransferGo, Avis, and Exness, with offices and hubs in London, Singapore, Riga, Limassol, Berlin, Miami, Dubai, and Tel Aviv. Over the past three years, the company has received more than 40 industry awards from leading global organizations.

In 2025, Sumsub was recognised as a technology
leader by Gartner, Forrester, and IDC.

In 2026, the company joined the World Economic Forum, contributing practical expertise to global discussions on digital trust, identity, and emerging risks.

Looking ahead, Sumsub continues to expand its platform by tailoring onboarding solutions to specific markets and strengthening fraud prevention and transaction monitoring.

The goal remains unchanged: enabling secure, compliant digital journeys that scale globally and remain resilient as risks evolve.