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Equifax Names New Chief Technology Officer for Canada 

July 19, 2021

BUILDING ON SOLID momentum with cloud-native capabilities, Equifax announced Richard Oh as chief technology officer for Equifax Canada. 

Oh has spent more than 25 years in innovation, entrepreneurship and enterprise solution delivery, and was most recently a founder of Highdegree, LLC, a joint venture with IronNet Cybersecurity, which subsequently fully acquired Highdegree. He has worked with clients to deliver advanced digital and data solutions, and has led business transformation initiatives across numerous industries.

"Our new ways of building products enables us to bring in new leadership that deeply understands how to fully leverage our new capabilities,” said Bryson Koehler, Equifax global chief technology officer. “Richard brings a diverse background of enterprise software management experience, launching products, companies, divisions and leading teams in strong engineering organizations."

With reliability being a cornerstone value proposition of The Equifax Cloud™, Oh will be fully enabled to design more agile and efficient products at-scale.

“We were looking for a CTO who would push boundaries and stretch our conceptions of what is possible to create something extraordinary,” said Equifax Canada President Sue Hutchison. “Richard will help us continue to reimagine processes and strategies that will make it easier for our customers to work with us, and allow us to solve business problems faster.”