Founded 2015
Founders Donald Gillies, CEO Henry Irish, Founding CTO

PassFort automated the collection, verification, and secure storage of customer and supplier due diligence documents using integrated third-party data sources. This enabled compliance officers to accelerate onboarding and reduce manual errors while maintaining audit-ready records.
PassFort exited to Moody’s in 2021.


Founders

Donald
Gillies

CEO

Donald graduated from the University of St. Andrews with a degree in Financial Economics. He worked briefly at Macquarie Group as an analyst before starting his founder journey.

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Henry
Irish

Founding CTO

Henry graduated from Cambridge University, where he achieved First Class Honors in Computer Science. He also completed a Master’s in Computer Science at Cambridge University before beginning his career at Salesforce as a developer in the big data visualization team.

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