Clay Carter

Clay Carter is the Chief Information Security Officer of Ncontracts, appointed in August 2025.

Career path

Carter holds Master's and Bachelor's degrees in Engineering from the University of Virginia.

He began building security experience at GE Digital, where he developed security architectures for critical infrastructure.

He then moved to Xylem Inc., serving as head of product security for over two years and building a 45-person global product security organization during the pandemic.

Carter went on to serve as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer at Nielsen, where he led security operations during a $16 billion go-private transaction and multiple business portfolio changes.

Ncontracts announced his appointment as Chief Information Security Officer on August 19, 2025.

At the time of that appointment, Carter was also serving as an advisor at Prelude and Qwiet AI.

Remit at Ncontracts

Carter leads security strategy across Ncontracts' SaaS platform and corporate infrastructure.

He has a role in the company's AI transformation, with responsibility for security controls and governance over its AI and machine learning capabilities.

"Joining Ncontracts as CISO is an incredible opportunity to champion a culture of security by design," Carter said.

Ncontracts provides cloud-based integrated risk management, compliance, and third-party risk management solutions to more than 5,000 financial organizations, including banks, credit unions, mortgage companies and fintechs.

Public commentary

Carter has discussed vendor risk and security basics on the Ncontracts podcast, in an episode titled Would Your Security Program Stop an Attacker — or Just an Auditor?, recorded with host Rafael DeLeon.

In that conversation, he addressed where vendor questionnaires fall short, what responsible AI governance requires, and why advanced security techniques are ineffective without fundamental controls in place, drawing on the programs he built at General Electric, Nielsen, and Xylem.