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About Johnny Ayers
https://www.socure.com/about
Johnny Ayers is founder and CEO of Socure, the world's most valuable identity verification company serving 2000 enterprise customers globally and >1B end users across banking, fintech, public sector, technology, ecommerce, and gaming.
Socure has been named to the Forbes Top 50 Fintechs, the Forbes AI 50, America's Most Promising AI Companies, Inc.'s Best Places to Work, Forbes Best Startup Employers, Gartner’s Cool Vendor in AI, Red Herring's Top 100 north America, CB Insights 250 Top Fintechs, and Forbes Cloud 100 Top Private Cloud Companies in the world.
Since founding the company in 2012, Johnny has been instrumental in building the company's tremendous customer base and suite of industry-leading digital identity verification and fraud prevention solutions. He is also a frequent expert speaker on fraud, authentication, and KYC/AML, and has been quoted in publications such as the WSJ, Forbes, Bloomberg, TechCrunch, VentureBeat, Thomson Reuters, Cheddar, PYMNTS.com, and more.
He won the Tech Leadership honor for software and service providers in the 2023 Banking Tech awards. In 2022 he was also awarded Ernst & Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Finovate Executive of the Year, and has been named by Goldman Sachs as one of the Top 100 Entrepreneurs of 2021, 2022 and 2023.
Outside of Socure, Johnny is an investor in, or an advisor to, companies including; Acorns, Alloy, Astra, Bask, BillGo, Chipper Cash, Coast, Commerce Ventures, Covered, HMBradley, Moov, Treasury Prime, and more.