Mark Carter

Mark Carter is the chief information security officer of Socure, an identity and fraud-risk platform that announced his appointment in June 2026.

Career path

Socure describes him as a cybersecurity, information technology, engineering, risk, compliance, AI, cloud and product executive with more than 25 years of leadership experience.

Immediately before Socure, he served as CISO at Navan and at Tesla, and earlier as CISO and CIO at Vimeo.

Before that he held senior leadership roles at Salesforce, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, PayPal, VMware and Gemalto, leading global security, engineering, cloud, compliance and infrastructure organizations at scale.

He has also advised boards and executive teams on cyber risk, operational resilience, compliance and enterprise security strategy.

The Socure role

As CISO, Carter leads Socure's enterprise-wide security, cyber risk, governance, compliance, resilience and information technology strategy, working across product, engineering, legal, compliance and operations teams.

Carter described the stakes of the job this way: "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."

Socure founder and chief executive Johnny Ayers framed the hire around a principle that security and privacy are not functions added as a company grows but are foundational to how it grows, and that both must scale as Socure expands with the world's largest organizations.

About the employer

Socure says it closed the first quarter of 2026 with more than $340 million in total annual recurring revenue and 62 percent year-over-year growth in new revenue, across a base of more than 3,000 customers.

Socure's announcement does not give exact dates for his tenures at each earlier employer, so this profile leaves those years unstated.