Career profile
Richard Bird
Chief Security and Strategy Officer, Singulr AI
- Current role, per sources checked 18 March 2026
- 18 March 2026
Richard Bird is the Chief Security and Strategy Officer of Singulr AI, a role he took on in March 2026 after joining the company as Chief Security Officer in February 2025.
Career path
Bird spent more than three decades leading security programs, including as global head of identity for JPMorgan Chase's consumer businesses and in security leadership roles at Huntington National Bank.
He later served as Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Information Officer, and then as Chief Customer Information Officer, at Ping Identity.
As Chief Security Officer at Traceable, he led development of a Zero Trust API security framework, directed the company's federal strategy, and devised a programmatic approach that helped major banks meet the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council's API visibility requirements.
Singulr AI, an AI governance and security platform, appointed Bird Chief Security Officer in February 2025 to help enterprise customers manage the business risks of accelerating AI adoption.
In March 2026, Singulr AI expanded his responsibilities to Chief Security and Strategy Officer, adding company strategy, market direction, and customer engagement to his security remit as the company focuses on governance for agentic AI systems.
Public voice and published work
Bird has become a recognized industry voice on AI governance, agentic risk, and the limits of legacy security and control models in the face of autonomous systems.
"In an AI-driven enterprise, security isn’t a separate function; it’s a primary driver of strategy. The organizations that move fastest and most responsibly will be the ones that align innovation, governance, and strategy from the start," Bird said.
He is a Forbes Tech Council member and has been interviewed by outlets including the Wall Street Journal, CNBC, Bloomberg, The Financial Times, Business Insider, CNN, TechRepublic, Solutions Review, the NYSE, ISMG, and Dark Reading on data protection, identity security, and AI governance.
Bird wrote the book Famous With 12 People: A Career Guide on Becoming an Internationally Recognized Expert in Something Nobody Cares About, which offers advice on personal branding, public speaking, and networking.
He has described his focus as bringing together companies, organizations, governments, and solution providers to reorient cybersecurity around protecting people rather than things.