Roger Hale

Identity verification company 1Kosmos named Roger Hale, previously Chief Information Security Officer at Informatica, as its CISO.

A vendor hiring a sitting enterprise CISO is the classic security-market credibility play: Hale has run the buyer's side of the identity, security, and trust evaluation that 1Kosmos sells into. Expect the role to be outward-facing — customer advisory, analyst relations, field CISO work — as much as it is operational.

According to the release, Hale will lead the internal security programs of 1Kosmos, along with its risk management, customer trust and compliance programs. The release says Hale will also drive AI governance and privacy programs at 1Kosmos. According to the release, 1Kosmos is expanding adoption of its passwordless authentication and identity verification platform among regulated industries, public sector agencies and enterprises.

Hale's executive management experience with global cybersecurity companies spans more than two decades, the release says. According to the release, Hale was Vice President and CISO at Informatica and led its security transformation during a shift from enterprise software to cloud-first data management. The release says Hale has also held senior security leadership positions at Veritas/Symantec, BigID and Agora. He was earlier a Venture Advisor and CISO-in-Residence at YL Ventures, according to the release. The release said that, at the time of the announcement, Hale was a member of the Silicon Valley CISO Investment group, where he invested in and advised early-stage cybersecurity companies on go-to-market readiness, product and security strategy.

Vimadalal said 1Kosmos is scaling to meet demand from organizations changing how identity trust is established, maintained and proven. Hale said he joined 1Kosmos because it is helping companies bring verified identity into the moments when trust is decided.

The company says its platform provides passwordless multi-factor authentication and remote identity verification so that residents, customers and workers can engage securely with digital services. According to the company, 1Kosmos carries out millions of authentications each day for retailers, healthcare organizations, telecommunications providers, major banks and technology and service providers worldwide. The company says 1Kosmos is headquartered in Iselin, New Jersey, and has raised venture capital funding of more than $72M.