Scott Graham is a graduate of Royal Air Force College Cranwell and also served with a UK police force before moving to the Royal Hong Kong Police.

In 2001 Scott Graham, along with two former Royal Hong Kong Police Officers, John Baxter and Michael Short, and Yogesh Bhura, set up the Quest Research Group. This business initially had three offices and six employees. Quest Research, focused on background checks, eventually grew to employ some 600 people in ten offices around Asia. It had several hundred multinational clients. By 2005 it was conducting over 10,000 verifications each month across Asia and identifying fraudulent resumes at the rate of around 3% of those checked. In 2005 the Quest Research Group was acquired by First Advantage, a NASDAQ listed company.

The same group of founders started a unique due diligence and Know Your Client anti-money laundering service. This has now become the recognized as the gold standard check for banks and MNC's around the world. The new company was named IntegraScreen. IntegraScreen again grew rapidly and had a global footprint of thirteen offices with 300 people in 2008. It was named as one of the most exciting privately held companies in the world by a Lehman Bros report in 2007.

The due diligence and KYC business provided invaluable risk information to several hundred multinationals and banks, covering all major industry sectors and produced thousands of in-depth reports every month. It successfully helped these companies safeguard their reputations and prevent significant risks from money laundering, fraud, as well as identifying OFAC and other high/extreme risk individuals and politically exposed persons. In 2009 the founders sold the due diligence division of IntegraScreen to World Check. In 2011 World Check/IntegraScreen was sold to Thomson Reuters.

During this period the founders had started a document verification business in support of immigration departments, later renamed Dataflow. Utilizing the same network of offices and field agents around the world it was able to secure contracts with several Western, Middle Eastern and Asian governments. It was through this company’s work the founders became aware of the issue of human trafficking as the identification of vast numbers of fraudulent documents often indicated the involvement of large criminal syndicates. Dataflow now employs over 150 people and has substantial operations in South Asia and the Middle East. It verifies thousands of documents every month in some of the most challenging countries to operate in. It continually monitors data related to human trafficking and people smuggling. This has helped it identify hundreds of front companies and banned agents involved in the organized crime of human trafficking for its government clients.

It is from this data and the founders client base in the anti-money laundering compliance departments of major financial institutions that the idea for FreedomNow.org was born.

The same founders have now formed a new company, Ethics 360, which will assist corporate clients in complying with anti-corruption legislation around the world. We believe corruption to be the root cause of human trafficking as well as many other social ills and if private, public and the not for profit sectors can come together it can be defeated.