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Technology leadership
for strategic
advantage.

I help CEOs, boards, founders, and investors across financial services navigate consequential technology decisions that shape growth, resilience, risk, and enterprise value.

Matthew March, financial-services technology executive, board director and adviser
EVP / CIOFinancial Services Executive
Board DirectorPublic & Private Companies
Forbes
Technology CouncilMember
25+ YearsFinancial Services Technology

Advisory

Strategic guidance for technology, data, AI, cybersecurity, and operating-model decisions that drive growth, resilience, and efficiency.

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Board Leadership

Independent perspective for boards and committees on technology risk, innovation, investment, governance, and digital transformation.

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Speaking

Thought leadership on technology, artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, governance, and the future of financial services.

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Delivering Measurable Value

$3.1B+

Deposits Enabled

Across API banking, B2B integrations, digital growth initiatives, and financial-services innovation.

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Bank Mergers & Acquisitions

Executed seven bank mergers and acquisitions, completed multiple core banking platform conversions, and developed a successful Branch in a Box strategy.

$50M+

Annualized Cost Savings

Through technology modernization, contract renegotiation, and disciplined expense analysis.

$1B+

First-Year Originations Enabled

Through a greenfield financial-services platform build.

Representative outcomes achieved across executive leadership roles and broader organizational teams.

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Leadership

Technology Is Not the Strategy

The CIO’s real job is to translate business ambition into capability, execution, and measurable value.

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Financial Services Technology

From Digital Transformation to Digital-to-Dollars

A practical framework for connecting technology investment to growth, relationship depth, operating leverage, and enterprise value.

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Board Governance

The Questions Every Board Should Ask About AI

Good AI governance starts with clarity about purpose, data, decision rights, risk, human oversight, and accountability.

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Cybersecurity

Cyber Resilience Is a Business Strategy, Not an IT Program

Resilience is an operating model that connects critical services, architecture, recovery, decision rights, third parties, and executive accountability.

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Technology is not the strategy.
It is what makes the strategy possible.

The organizations that thrive are those that align technology with business purpose, manage risk with discipline, and invest with clarity. My role is to help leaders make those connections—and act on them.

Let’s turn technology decisions into
lasting enterprise value.

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