Onfido, the global identity verification and authentication provider, announced the appointment of Mike Tuchen as the new CEO to lead the company as it further scales its global offer.

Mike joins Onfido, succeeding Husayn Kassai, co-founder of Onfido, who is stepping down as CEO but will remain with Onfido to help and advise Mike as he leads the company through the next period of growth across sectors and geographies.

Mike is a highly experienced executive with an established track record of scaling technology and software businesses globally. He most recently served as CEO of Talend, a provider of cloud data integration, which he took public in 2016.

Prior to Talend he led Rapid7, a security software startup, and founded a marketing analytics startup in between senior management roles at Microsoft and Polycom. He holds degrees in Electrical Engineering from Brown and Stanford and an MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar.

Mike Tuchen, incoming CEO of Onfido, said:

“I have spent over twenty years working with leading software and tech businesses and I couldn’t be more optimistic about Onfido’s product and mission. This is an incredibly exciting time for the business, with Onfido’s focus on virtual verification more important than ever as companies focus on digitisation and the shift to remote working. Husayn has built a fantastic team and business and I look forward to building on that success as we rapidly scale the company worldwide and broaden our offering.”

Onfido employs over 400 people globally, has raised more than $200 million across multiple funding rounds and is continuing to grow rapidly across all its end markets.