Socure, the leading trust infrastructure for global identity and risk intelligence, today announced the appointment of Mark Carter as the company’s Chief Information Security Officer (CISO). The appointment reflects Socure’s continued growth and commitment to operating at the highest levels of security and resilience in the AI era.
As Socure expands across industries and geographies, it has become the standard trust infrastructure the digital economy operates on. Socure maintains heightened responsibility for protecting data, safeguarding privacy, and strengthening the security foundation that customers rely on to combat fraud and verify identity at scale. As CISO, Carter will lead Socure’s enterprise-wide security, cyber risk, governance, compliance, resilience and information technology strategy. He will work across product, engineering, legal, compliance, operations, customer-facing teams, and executive leadership to enhance security and responsible data practices while accelerating AI innovation. Carter’s appointment will directly influence how Socure builds, operates, and scales its AI-native platform for identity verification, fraud prevention, and regulatory compliance.
“Security and privacy are not functions we add as we grow, they are foundational to how we grow. As Socure continues to scale globally with the world’s largest organizations, security, privacy, and resilience must scale with us,” said Johnny Ayers, founder and CEO of Socure. “Trust at that scale is built through consistent action, not a single moment. Mark reflects the security, governance, and operating discipline we hold ourselves to every day. He has spent more than 25 years building exactly that with global technology companies and is the perfect leader for Socure.”
Carter joins at a time when identity and fraud prevention have taken on new urgency. As organizations face a rapidly changing fraud, identity, and compliance landscape, with AI-driven attacks increasing in speed and sophistication, enterprises and government agencies require trusted infrastructure that is secure, resilient, transparent, and built to operate at scale. For Socure, meeting that standard means continuing to invest not only in product innovation, but also in the governance, accountability, and operating rigor required of critical infrastructure.
Socure’s business is accelerating while its operating context intensifies. The company closed Q1 2026 with more than $340 million in total ARR and 62% year-over-year total new ARR growth across a base of more than 3,000 customers. This momentum is being driven by continued vertical and geographic expansion, product-led growth through sustained R&D investment in AI, and rapid adoption of Socure’s AI-native RiskOS® decisioning platform.
“Socure sits at the center of one of the most consequential challenges in the global economy: establishing trust in identity while stopping increasingly sophisticated fraud,” said Mark Carter, Chief Information Security Officer of Socure. “Security is foundational to that mission, but trust is earned through consistent execution over time. As Socure scales into indispensable infrastructure for the world’s most trusted enterprises and government agencies, our ability to strengthen resilience, advance enterprise-grade risk and compliance, scale our AI-powered information technology systems and embed responsible security and data governance into daily operations will define the company’s next chapter. I’m excited to join Socure at this moment and continue to build the operating discipline required for what comes next.”
About Mark Carter
Mark Carter is a cybersecurity, information technology, engineering, risk, compliance, AI, cloud, and product executive with more than 25 years of leadership experience. Prior to joining Socure, he served as CISO at Navan and Tesla, and as CISO and CIO at Vimeo. He previously held senior leadership roles at Salesforce, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, PayPal, VMware, and Gemalto, leading global security, engineering, cloud, compliance, and infrastructure organizations at significant scale. Carter has also advised boards and executive teams on cyber risk, operational resilience, compliance, and enterprise security strategy.
About Socure
Socure is the leading platform for digital identity verification, compliance and fraud prevention solutions, trusted by the largest enterprises and government agencies to build trust and mitigate risk. Leveraging AI and machine learning, Socure achieves the highest accuracy, automation, and capture rates in the industry.
Serving more than 3,000 customers and 190+ countries across financial services, government, gaming, healthcare, telecom, and e-commerce, Socure’s customer base includes 18 of the top 20 banks, four of the Mag 7, the largest HR payroll and workforce providers, the largest sportsbook and prediction market operators, 160 organizations across the public sector, and more than 600 fintechs.
Leading organizations trust Socure to deliver certainty in identity across onboarding, authentication, payments, account changes, and regulatory compliance. Learn more at www.socure.com.
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