Jade Thomas
Co-founder
Jade began his career with Cybertrace in September 2019, when it was still a small, remote business, working closely with founder Dan Halpin, a former ASIO officer. Over seven years he was instrumental in growing and running the business, moving into management of day-to-day operations, sales, client relationships and business development.
During his time with the company, Jade developed experience across a wide range of investigations, including cryptocurrency tracing, cyber investigations, fraud and scam investigations, website forensics, OSINT, background checks and skip tracing. He also worked on investigations involving anonymous social media accounts, email addresses, phone numbers and online identities, as well as online harassment, impersonation and child grooming. Much of this work involved finding and connecting information that was difficult to locate or deliberately hidden.
Around 2020, Jade identified the growing need for cryptocurrency tracing as crypto scams became increasingly common. He taught himself the fundamentals of blockchain and cryptocurrency tracing before helping develop it into a formal service. Cybertrace became the first Australian company to provide cryptocurrency tracing to the public, and went on to be recognised internationally for its work in complex cyber, fraud, scam and cryptocurrency investigations.
Under Jade's operational leadership, the team helped clients trace and pursue the recovery of funds lost to scams, identify people responsible for online offending, and contribute to matters where offenders were later arrested overseas. Results were used in courts internationally, and the company worked with leading law enforcement organisations including Interpol.
Jade brings a practical and analytical approach to complex matters, with a broad understanding of how small pieces of information can be connected to uncover what may otherwise remain hidden.