Mark Carter named Chief Information Security Officer at Vimeo

Vimeo appointed Mark Carter as its first Chief Information Security Officer. Carter will oversee security, compliance and risk management at the video platform company. He previously held senior security roles at Salesforce, Tesla, Amazon Web Services and PayPal.

According to the release, Carter will work to enhance Vimeo's enterprise video offering in areas such as product security, zero trust, supply chain management, compliance automation and the secure software development life cycle.

Carter has 25 years of technical and SaaS experience, according to the release. At Salesforce he served as Executive Vice President of Security, and at Tesla he was CISO, the release says. According to the release, Carter was Director of Payment Platforms at PayPal and General Manager at Amazon Web Services. He also held senior roles in engineering and product management at Microsoft and Google, according to the release. The release says Carter's career has centred on leading teams in machine learning, IoT, distributed systems, big data, security, and information security, risk and compliance. According to the release, Carter is an entrepreneur and co-founded startups including Genioos and Widenet, which was acquired by Netvision.

The company says its users, numbering nearly 300 million, range from creative storytellers to globally distributed teams.