Kristin Stafford

Kristin is a successful serial entrepreneur specializing in SaaS and enterprise platforms supporting global compliance and background screening.

Kristin is the co-founder and CEO of Vital4, a global enterprise, cloud-based platform, which provides instant data screening to support compliance, background screening, due diligence and more, on a global scale.

Kristin is the former co-founder and managing partner of one of the first independent wholesale international background screening firms in the U.S. Kristin managed and developed the company from the ground up into a multi-million-dollar business, that recently sold the platform she designed to Dun and Bradstreet in 2021.

Kristin has more than 20 years of experience in operations management, process architecture and software development. She has organized and managed teams of over 100 employees and consultants and brings to the table a vast array of experience in facilitating the requirements of corporate clients in the development and implementation of operations systems management and software development. Before entering the international background screening space, she managed the financial operations of a large Atlanta-based financial services corporation, served as a senior consultant for Delta Technology and Northern Trust Bank and held a management role within a start-up division of GE Capital.