Michael Housch has joined Dark Matter Technologies, a new mortgage lending technology firm, as chief risk and information security officer.
Housch, a C-suite and information security veteran of two and a half decades, joins Dark Matter following an eight-year stint with Black Knight, Inc., which was recently acquired by Intercontinental Exchange (ICE).
Prior to Black Knight, Housch served as chief information officer at First Federal Bank of Florida for more than a dozen years. There, he was responsible for keeping the bank on the cutting edge of innovation while also overseeing day-to-day operations and decisions related to institutional growth and efficiency, including oversight of information technology, information security, physical security, electronic banking and business continuity.
As Black Knight’s chief information security officer, Housch developed and managed the company’s information security vision and strategy to ensure the effective safeguarding of its information assets and technology.
At Dark Matter, Housch will likewise oversee a comprehensive DevSecOps program spanning vulnerability management, identity access, cloud architecture, incident response, governance and regulatory audit oversight. In addition, Housch will be responsible for assessing and mitigating Dark Matter’s operational, compliance and strategic risks at the enterprise level.
In a release, Rich Gagliano, CEO for Dark Matter, says Housch “is a leader whose unparalleled credentials and industry experience are perfectly matched to the challenge Dark Matter is undertaking, which is nothing less than a dramatic re-imagination of the mortgage lending process.”
“For nearly a decade, Mike ensured our team’s security kept up with our pace of innovation, and he’s got the discipline and imagination Dark Matter needs to accelerate that pace and unleash our industry’s untapped potential,” Housch adds.
