Jason Blackhurst will succeed Martina King as the CEO of Featurespace following its acquisition by Visa.
During her tenure as CEO, King led Featurespace to become a leader in machine learning-powered fraud detection.
Blackhurst, a senior vice president at Visa, will take on the role of senior vice president, head of Featurespace and acceptance risk solutions at Visa.
Featurespace, now a part of Visa's Risk and Identity Solutions unit, has been granted a U.S. patent for its adaptive behavioral analytics technology.