Ascendex Consulting

Annette S.

Enterprise Vision, IT Leader

Annette shares her experience as a financial industry executive (CIO, VP, AVP) of the IT enterprise. Benefiting her clients is her 30+ year career as the creator of IT vision, strategy, and as the stakeholder of Data Center Operations, IT Security, Support, Infrastructure, DEV OPS, Reporting, Governance, IT Audit, Regulatory Compliance and BRP. She brings extensive Advisory and Technology Risk Management, audit, and regulatory experience deliverables to clients in both a national and global practice.

While her career has primarily been within the financial industry, her deliverables have offered significant leverage working with governments, healthcare, telecom, and publishing firms. Some of her high-profile engagements include a system selection assessment for the largest privately held bank in the U.S. and their thirteen bank holding companies, a SOX engagement for the largest publishing company in the North America, and a business Continuity Planning global operations for an International Organization. She has conducted IT Compliance Audits of all the mid-market financial industry software companies and launched a large bank’s first ever Commercial Online Banking platform and Mobile application systems.

Annette has presented as an industry keynote speaker with audiences ranging from Board of Directors to Conference groups of several hundred. She is a published author of industry articles.

Ultimately it is her experience contributing as a software vendor, an executive, and as a top-tier accounting firm risk management consultant that uniquely provides her clients with an independent 360 view perspective.