The people behind Acuris

Levent Kandemir

Founder & Managing Director

Levent founded Acuris after twelve years at Informatica/AddressDoctor, where he built and managed the global reference-data supply chain behind commercial address validation and geocoding across 240+ countries — licensing data from postal authorities and specialist providers worldwide.

Earlier: strategy advisor to the Saudi Stock Exchange in Riyadh, business development and engineering at Deutsche Börse Group (Eurex/Xetra) in Frankfurt, and software development at IBM Canada in Toronto. He studied at Western University (Ontario, Canada).

At Acuris he leads product, engineering and international business development: the 240+-country address platform, the identity and compliance stack, and the production EUDI Wallet Verifier for eIDAS 2.0.

Worms, Germany · l.kandemir@acuris-geo.com

Volker Trüb

Senior Advisor · Information Security, Legal & Compliance

Volker is a qualified German lawyer (Assessor jur.) and information scientist (Diplom-Informationswissenschaftler, University of Konstanz) with more than two decades in credit information, scoring and risk management: Managing Director of infoscore Consumer Data GmbH, Managing Director and Vice President Legal at Arvato Financial Solutions Risk Management, and Vice President Legal & Compliance at Experian DACH.

From 2014 to 2022 he served as deputy managing director of DIE WIRTSCHAFTSAUSKUNFTEIEN e.V., the association of the German credit bureaus. He advises Acuris on data protection (GDPR), information security and the compliance architecture of its identity products.

Baden-Baden, Germany · v.trueb@acuris-geo.com

Kirk Ireland

Senior Advisor · Security Research & Red Teaming

Kirk is an application- and mobile-security specialist whose career spans red-team leadership, threat research and incident response. As Lead Product Manager and Red Team Manager for EA Sports Security, he led the team that protected player experience and in-game economies from fraud and abuse at global scale — owning the security roadmap, KPIs and the offensive red-team programme.

Earlier he was Senior Director of Security Research at Arxan Technologies and Digital.ai, leading application-protection threat research, incident response and security design reviews for Fortune 500 customers, and a senior mobile-security analyst at Graphite Software. He is a reverse-engineering and incident-response specialist and a certified Offensive Mobile Security Expert (OMSE), and today works in mobile application security at Promon. He holds a B.Sc. in Computer Science from Western University.

He advises Acuris on adversarial testing of its verification and fraud-prevention systems, threat research, and the security of its on-prem and SDK deployments.

Ottawa, Canada · k.ireland@acuris-geo.com

Marvin Kandemir

Head of Product Development

Marvin drives product development at Acuris — new features, the Excel add-in and the integrations that make the platform easier to adopt — and the country reference databases that power the address-validation and geocoding engine across 240+ countries. He turns customer feedback and coverage gaps into shipped improvements, across the tools customers use and the reference data underneath them.

Germany · marvin.k@acuris-geo.com

Robin Kandemir

Head of Quality Assurance

Robin leads quality assurance at Acuris — testing every release across the address-validation, geocoding and identity products and the Excel add-in, and validating the country reference databases behind the engine so coverage and accuracy hold up across 240+ countries. He builds the checks and test suites that keep both the software and the underlying reference data reliable as the platform grows.

Germany · robin.k@acuris-geo.com