David Head

David Head

Co-founder & CEO, Endorsed

David Head is the Co-Founder & CEO of Endorsed, the AI-powered talent intelligence platform trusted by organizations like Astranis, Life360, and Eight Sleep. With over a decade of experience building recruiting technology at Sixty, Laskie (acquired by X), and Braintrust, David now leads Endorsed in helping global companies source, evaluate, and protect their hiring pipelines at scale.

1:45 PM - 2:25 PM
HUB 2

Beating Candidate Fraud: Insights from Millions of Applications

Remote work and GenAI have accelerated candidate fraud. By 2028, Gartner projects that up to 25% of global applicants could be fake. In this session, David Head (Co-Founder & CEO at Endorsed) will share patterns learned from analyzing millions of applicants across Endorsed’s customer base, detailing fraud sources, variants, detection techniques, and the multi-layer defenses leading companies use.