Risk & Fraud Advisory · Seattle, Washington

Fraud capability for financial firms that can't hire it full-time.

Enderassey is the advisory practice of Wondwossen Mezlekia, CFE: one of ten LIMRA/LOMA Financial Crimes Council members who drove FraudShare's adoption across the life and retirement industry, and the program leader behind a 93% reduction in third-party account takeover fraud at a top annuity carrier.

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en·de·ra·sé (Amharic): “as myself.” The person you trust to act on your behalf, with full authority and full accountability. Every engagement at Enderassey is held to that standard of care.

The record

Examined, not asserted.

A fraud examiner's claims should read like findings
EX–01 93% reduction in third-party account takeover fraud Designed and ran the fraud prevention program protecting call center and annuity administration operations at Symetra Life Insurance, a top-tier annuity carrier.
EX–02 Drove FraudShare's industry adoption One of ten members of the LIMRA/LOMA Financial Crimes Council: selling the platform to member companies, winning over legal and compliance teams, testing, contributing data, and operationalizing it across the industry.
EX–03 COSO-aligned risk program, built from scratch Stood up Symetra's operational risk management program end to end and cut assessment cycle time by 50% through Lean process redesign.
EX–04 VP, Data Risk Management Led data risk management at MUFG Union Bank, including independent review and challenge of seven enterprise GRC system conversions through the US Bank acquisition.
EX–05 Certified Fraud Examiner 15+ years across insurance and banking: operational risk, fraud prevention, AML coordination, and data governance. RSA Archer, OpenPages, and ServiceNow practitioner.
The principal

One examiner. Full accountability.

Wondwossen Mezlekia

Founder & Principal Consultant · CFE

Wondwossen spent 15 years inside the operations he now defends: twelve at Symetra Life Insurance, where he ran retirement claims, owned SOX-compliant control processes, and built the company's operational risk and fraud prevention programs, and a year as VP of Data Risk Management at MUFG Union Bank through one of the largest bank acquisitions in recent US history.

As one of ten members of the LIMRA/LOMA Financial Crimes Council, he helped take FraudShare, the industry's fraud intelligence platform, from a promising idea to the standard adopted across life and retirement services: selling it to member companies, testing it, contributing data and insights, and operationalizing it.

When you engage Enderassey, this is who does the work. No leverage model, no junior staff learning on your engagement.

MUFG Union Bank · VP, Data Risk Management Symetra · Fraud Prevention Program Manager Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE) LIMRA/LOMA Financial Crimes Council 15+ Years · Insurance, Banking & Retirement
The math

A single successful account takeover routinely costs more than the program that stops it.

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