I speak with boards, executive teams, financial-services associations, fintech leaders, and technology audiences about the decisions reshaping financial services. My goal is to make complex topics understandable, commercially relevant, and immediately useful.
Each presentation is tailored to the audience, the organization’s context, and the decisions leaders need to make next.
How financial institutions can move beyond experimentation, identify valuable use cases, protect sensitive information, manage third parties, establish decision rights, and innovate responsibly without losing momentum.
How to connect digital, data, CRM, workflow, automation, and AI investments to deposits, loans, fee income, relationship depth, client experience, productivity, and cost-to-serve.
The questions directors should ask, the information they should expect, and the governance practices that create informed oversight without pulling the board into operational management.
Why the CIO mandate now extends across strategy, growth, client experience, data, resilience, risk, governance, operating models, and financial performance.
How leaders create clarity, maintain resilience, make investment decisions, and preserve execution discipline when technology, cyber risk, regulation, and business conditions are changing quickly.
Why resilience depends on leadership, architecture, recovery design, testing, third-party readiness, decision rights, and operating discipline—not simply the number of security products deployed.
Two upcoming 2026 engagements focused on executive innovation and practical AI deployment in financial services.
Participating as a speaker in CCBN’s two-day Executive Innovation Forum in San Diego.
A 2026 Annual Convention forum featuring banking leaders demonstrating real-world AI use cases and discussing deployment strategies, outcomes, challenges, and lessons learned.
Panelists: David Myrick Jr., Vice President, AI Governance and Intelligent Automation, Newtown Savings Bank; Matt Lujan, President, Westside State Bank; Ann Drew, Chief Risk and Compliance Officer, WEX; and Matthew March, Chief Information Officer, West Coast Community Bank.
California Community Banking Network webinar focused on how community banks can embrace AI, manage emerging risks, strengthen cybersecurity, and innovate responsibly.
Matthew March is Chief Information Officer of West Coast Community Bank, a board director and Fractional CISO, and a member of Forbes Technology Council. With 25+ years of leadership across banking, fintech, mortgage, payments, cybersecurity, data, and digital transformation, he connects technology strategy to growth, resilience, governance, and enterprise value. Matthew is an industry speaker, published author, educator, named co-inventor on issued patents and patent filings, and strategic adviser to CEOs, boards, founders, and investors.
Matthew March is a financial-services technology executive, board director, Fractional CISO, and strategic adviser with more than 25 years of experience leading transformation across banking, fintech, mortgage, payments, cybersecurity, data, and operations. He serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of West Coast Community Bank, where he leads technology, innovation, data management, governance, and regulatory readiness. Matthew serves on the Board of Directors of Revio Insight and as Fractional CISO, and he is a member of Forbes Technology Council. Across CIO and CTO roles, he has helped organizations generate deposits and revenue, integrate acquisitions, modernize infrastructure, strengthen cybersecurity and resilience, create digital platforms, and produce recurring savings. He is a published author, industry speaker, former volunteer adjunct professor, named co-inventor on issued patents and patent filings, and an advocate for treating technology not as an end in itself, but as a means of making better business outcomes possible.
Every presentation is tailored to the audience, the business context, and the decisions leaders need to make next.
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