Thomas Hill named Chief Information Security Officer at Candescent

Digital-banking platform Candescent appointed Thomas Hill as Chief Information Security Officer, announced in June 2026; day-level precision has not been established from available coverage.

Candescent's software runs digital banking for hundreds of financial institutions, making its CISO a concentration-risk steward: one vendor-side failure propagates across an entire customer base of banks.

The company says Hill's strategic focus is on reinforcing customer trust, safeguarding critical assets and embedding a proactive security culture across business units.

The release says Hill's more than 25 years of experience include risk management in highly regulated environments and the security of digital banking platforms. Most recently, he spent five years as CISO at nCino, according to the company. At nCino, according to the company, he built and scaled security programs that supported 1,850 financial institutions worldwide and aligned security strategy with regulatory expectations and growth. The release says Hill also led governance and incident response processes through periods of public market scrutiny and rapid corporate scaling. The company says Hill was CIO and CISO at Live Oak Bank before nCino, and his cloud-first security strategy there won the BAI Global Innovation Award for Cloud Banking Innovation in 2018. According to the release, Hill has led development of risk-based governance frameworks covering SOC 2 compliance, SEC cybersecurity disclosures, Cloud Security Alliance standards and the NIST AI Risk Management Framework. The company says Hill contributes to industry and academic forums, including work he did recently with the University of North Carolina on resilient careers in cybersecurity.

According to the release, Candescent's cloud-native Intelligent Banking Platform lets institutions bring together channels, data and real-time intelligence. The company says institutions use Candescent to deepen customer and member relationships in account opening, business and consumer banking, and branch and digital experiences. Candescent says its more than 1,300 bank and credit union clients represent over 30 million registered users.