Chris Richardson

Vice President, Identity & Access Management, Fannie Mae

Chris is the vice president for Identity and Access Management in the Chief Information Security Office (CISO) organization at Fannie Mae.  He has been at Fannie Mae for over 23 years, and throughout his tenure, Chris has supported capabilities and lead teams in multiple areas, including back-office systems, corporate websites, enterprise customer relationship management, enterprise directory services, reporting and analytics, and identity and access management for workforce and customers. 

Chris took responsibility for the Identity and Access Management portfolio in 2017, managing operations and engineering for multiple strategic security shared services, most recently leading efforts to enable Fannie Mae's cloud journey, mature customer identity and access (CIAM) management capabilities, increase protection for privileged access and adopt a zero trust framework.