Clay Carter named Chief Information Security Officer at Ncontracts

Ncontracts appointed Clay Carter as Chief Information Security Officer. Carter most recently served as Senior Vice President and CISO at Nielsen and previously held security leadership roles at Xylem and GE Digital.

According to the release, Carter will lead security strategy for Ncontracts across its corporate infrastructure and the company's SaaS platform. He will ensure governance and security controls for the AI and machine learning capabilities of Ncontracts during its AI transformation, while keeping the trust of its credit union, bank and financial service customers, the release says. According to the release, the appointment adds Carter to the executive team as Ncontracts continues to grow.

According to the company, Carter draws on nearly 20 years of building security programs at Nielsen, GE and Xylem. At Nielsen, the release says, he led security operations through multiple business portfolio changes and a $16 billion go-private transaction. Carter built a global product security organization of 45 people during the pandemic at Xylem Inc., the release says. At GE Digital, according to the release, Carter developed security architectures for critical infrastructure. Carter holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Engineering from the University of Virginia, the release says.

The company says Ncontracts provides third-party risk management, compliance and integrated risk management solutions to over 5,000 financial organizations, including fintechs, registered investment advisors, mortgage companies and financial institutions. According to the release, Ncontracts has been on the Inc. 5000 for the seventh consecutive year, a list of fastest-growing private companies.