Kocho, a UK-based provider specializing in identity, cybersecurity, and cloud transformation services, has announced the appointment of Steven Jones as its new Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
This strategic move is designed to enhance the company's identity-led growth as it enters a new developmental phase.
Role and Responsibilities
Steven Jones joins Kocho's leadership team at a key time when identity plays a critical role in organizational security and digital resilience. As CTO, Jones will oversee the development of Kocho's technology framework, ensuring alignment with Microsoft's identity and security roadmap while addressing customer challenges.
His leadership will be vital in maintaining the relevance of the company's offerings in today's digital landscape.
Deepening Identity Leadership
Since its founding, identity has been a foundational element of Kocho's business. As one of the original partners of Microsoft's identity-first framework, Kocho has evolved alongside Microsoft's platforms and security pathways.
The appointment of Jones highlights the increasing need for specialized technical leadership as identity continues to intersect workforce and customer environments, as well as emerging systems like service accounts and workloads.
Progress Toward Identity Maturity
Steven Jones brings over a decade of experience in identity and security fieldsIn the upcoming financial year, Kocho aims to guide organizations beyond isolated solutions towards a mature identity framework. This involves structured governance, visibility, and risk management across complex identity systems.
Jones will also spearhead innovations, including projects like the Alira Access Portal, to ensure consistent market capabilities.
About Steven Jones
Steven Jones brings over a decade of experience in identity and security fields. Before joining Kocho, he spent ten years at Amido, later a part of Ensono, culminating in his role as Vice President of Digital Consulting. His career spans diverse sectors, including insurance, retail, and financial services, where he led identity and application development projects for top-tier clients.
Jones's technical expertise also includes guiding large-scale identity platform initiatives, covering workforce and customer identities, governance, and secure authentication systems. His work has benefited sectors like media, government, and national infrastructure.
CEO and CTO Statements
Hannah Birch, CEO of Kocho, commented on the appointment, stating: "Steven brings a rare combination of deep identity expertise and practical delivery leadership. As Identity continues to shape how organizations think about security and resilience, his experience will be central to how we evolve our services and support our clients."
In his own words, Steven Jones, the new CTO, said, "Identity has never been more central to how organizations protect themselves and enable their people. I'm joining Kocho at a moment when that conversation is really accelerating, and I'm looking forward to working with the team to help our customers build lasting identity maturity - not just implementing solutions, but ensuring those foundations are robust, scalable, and genuinely fit for the threats they face. Kocho's heritage in this space and its relationship with Microsoft make it the perfect platform to do just that."
Kocho, a UK-based provider of identity, cybersecurity and cloud transformation and managed services, has announced the appointment of Steven Jones as Chief Technology Officer, reinforcing the company's identity-led growth strategy as it enters its next phase of development.
Role and responsibility
Steven joins Kocho's executive leadership team at a pivotal moment, as identity continues to play an increasingly foundational role in how organizations approach security, resilience, and confidence in their digital environments.
As CTO, Steven will be responsible for shaping Kocho's technology strategy, providing architectural oversight and driving the continued evolution of its services and propositions. He will play a vital role in ensuring the company's capabilities remain closely aligned to the Microsoft identity and security roadmap, as well as the real-world challenges faced by customers.
Deepening identity leadership
Identity has been a core focus for Kocho since its inception. As an original identity-first Microsoft partner, the business has grown alongside Microsoft's identity platform and security roadmap. Steven's appointment reflects the increasing importance of dedicated technical leadership as identity continues to evolve across workforce, customer and increasingly non-human environments, including service accounts, workloads and emerging agentic systems.
As Kocho moves into FY27, the company is placing greater emphasis on helping organizations progress beyond point solutions and towards sustained identity maturity - supporting customers with structured approaches to governance, visibility, and risk reduction across increasingly complex identity estates.
Steven will also play a significant role in guiding the evolution of Kocho's propositions, including innovations such as the Alira Access Portal, ensuring market-leading capabilities are delivered in a consistent and repeatable way.
About Steven Jones
Steven brings more than a decade of experience working in identity and security. He joins Kocho having spent the past 10 years at Amido, latterly part of Ensono, where he progressed from consultant to Vice President of Digital Consulting - a role he held for two years prior to joining Kocho. In that capacity, he led practices spanning identity, application development and data and AI, serving a blue-chip and enterprise client base across insurance, retail, manufacturing, and financial services.
Earlier in his career, Steven worked in product and software development roles, primarily within supply chain and retail.
His experience has also seen Steven act as technical lead on large-scale workforce and customer identity platform implementations, with experience spanning joiner, mover and leaver processes, identity governance and administration, and secure authentication platforms. He has delivered identity programmes across a range of sectors, including media, retail, government, and critical national infrastructure.
Evolving services and support to the clients
Hannah Birch, CEO at Kocho, said: "Steven brings a rare combination of deep identity expertise and practical delivery leadership. As Identity continues to shape how organizations think about security and resilience, his experience will be central to how we evolve our services and support our clients."
Building lasting identity maturity
Steven Jones, CTO at Kocho, said: "Identity has never been more central to how organizations protect themselves and enable their people. I'm joining Kocho at a moment when that conversation is really accelerating, and I'm looking forward to working with the team to help our customers build lasting identity maturity - not just implementing solutions, but ensuring those foundations are robust, scalable and genuinely fit for the threats they face. Kocho's heritage in this space and its relationship with Microsoft make it the perfect platform to do just that."
