November 2025
# Q&A: Why AI with humans in the lead matters for risk transparency
RepRisk’s Chief Technology Officer, Yani Kalafatis, and Head of Marketing & Communications, Rebecca Bleasdale, discuss RepRisk’s pioneering journey with artificial intelligence, from early classifiers to cutting-edge transformer models and agentic AI.
In this insightful Q&A, Yani explains how AI and human expertise work hand-in-hand at RepRisk to deliver accurate, timely, and relevant reputational risk data. Discover why ground truth data, human validation, and a relentless drive for innovation keep RepRisk at the forefront of responsible AI, and why, for the foreseeable future, humans will remain firmly in the lead.
Bio - Yani Kalafatis, Chief Technology Officer
Yani joined RepRisk in 2024 and is the Chief Technology Officer.
With extensive experience across diverse industries including Big Tech, Telecom, E-Commerce, and Advertising, Yani has held key leadership roles such as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Chief Product Officer (CPO). He has led major organizations like Google and Swisscom and has also served as a Founder and Board Member for various technology startups.
Yani holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering and Informatics from the University of Patras in Greece, and earned his Master’s in Business Administration (MBA) from Institut Européen d'Administration des Affaires (INSEAD) in France.
