Avid Modjtabai

Avid Modjtabai, Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Wells Fargo, N.A., assumed her current role in March 2007. She is responsible for most of the core technology activities of the company, including infrastructure for computing services and connectivity services environments, application development, Corporate Information Security and Business Continuity Planning, enterprise business service and information management development, enterprise architecture, monitoring, change control, and problem management.

A 14-year veteran of Wells Fargo, Modjtabai most recently headed Corporate Human Resources, developing and implementing people strategies to support Wells Fargo's business objectives, as well as the management of compensation and benefits, human resource service centers, systems and payroll, finance, team member relations and assistance, talent management, learning and development and diversity for over 160,000 Wells Fargo team members.

Prior to serving as Director of Human Resources, Modjtabai was Executive Vice President and Director of Internet Services, where she helped Well Fargo become the leading provider of online financial services through managing consumer, investment and small business internet services. The online division has created revenues from sales through the online channel, improved retention, increased cross-sell and accelerated online channel usage. During her tenure, Wellsfargo.com was ranked as the #1 Internet Bank by Watchfire GomezPro and the Best Consumer Internet Bank in the industry by Global Finance.

Modjtabai's Wells Fargo career has also included management positions in Consumer Deposits, the Investment Group and she was a senior consultant in Corporate Strategy. She joined Wells Fargo from McKinsey & Company, where she focused on strategy initiatives in financial services.

She was named as one of the "Most Powerful Women in Banking" by U.S. Banker and one of the "100 Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business" by the San Francisco Business Times.

She serves on the Board of Directors of the Committee for Economic Development, First Graduate and the San Francisco Zoological Society. She also serves as an alternate board member for The Clearing House.

She received a B.S. in industrial engineering from Stanford University and an MBA in finance from Columbia University.