ITASCA, Ill., November 12, 2026 – Accertify, a leading fraud decisioning provider whose Predictive Yes Platform helps merchants say yes to more good customers, more revenue, and more growth, today announced the appointment of Michael Tello as Vice President of Technology Operations. In this role, Tello will lead the strategy, reliability and scalability of Accertify’s global technology infrastructure, ensuring the performance and resilience of its mission-critical fraud prevention and digital security services.
Tello brings more than 16 years of experience in technology infrastructure, engineering and operations leadership, most recently serving as Director of Infrastructure Engineering and Head of U.S. Network Services and Security at CIBC Bank. Throughout his career, he has led infrastructure modernization, cloud adoption and cybersecurity initiatives for major financial institutions, supporting complex, mission-critical systems in highly regulated environments.
At Accertify, Tello will oversee technology operations across the company’s global platform, with a focus on strengthening operational performance, modernizing its technology stack and supporting secure, scalable growth. Working closely with product and engineering leadership, he will guide the infrastructure and operational practices needed to support high-volume transaction processing, while building and empowering the technology teams responsible for delivering reliable, around-the-clock services to enterprise clients.
“Michael has spent his career leading complex technology environments where security, reliability and performance are absolutely critical,” said Randy Ruiz, Chief Technology Officer and CISO at Accertify. “That experience is directly relevant to the demands of our platform, where clients rely on us to process billions of transactions and make fraud decisions in real time. His leadership will be instrumental as we continue modernizing our infrastructure and scaling to support the evolving needs of our clients.”
“When you’re protecting billions of transactions, the infrastructure behind every decision matters,” said Tello. “Accertify operates in an environment where security, performance and reliability are essential, and I’m looking forward to applying my experience with mission-critical systems to help the platform scale. That means investing in resilient infrastructure, strong operational practices and the teams that keep everything running around the clock.”
Tello holds a master’s degree in telecommunications networks and a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from NYU Polytechnic Institute. He also completed the Fintech Revolution program at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Accertify enables commerce by doing one thing extraordinarily well: pinpointing fraud. The company’s Predictive Yes Platform helps businesses say yes to more – more good customers, more revenue, and more growth – without getting burned. It’s a precise, confident, data-backed yes, made possible by joining signals across the entire customer lifecycle through unmatched data volume, layered AI-powered models, and a consortium approach that protects clients from bad actors spotted anywhere in the network while unlocking business with good actors verified anywhere in the network.
With more than 10 billion transactions and over $1 trillion in commerce processed in 2025 alone, Accertify delivers the intelligence and precision that fraud and payments teams need to say yes confidently and enable growth. That’s the More Yes difference. Learn more at accertify.com.