Kurt Woetzel Biography

Kurt Woetzel is executive vice president and CIO, the Bank of New York. As CIO for the company, he has oversight of the technical infrastructure and the software development function for the bank’s business worldwide. Prior to his current assignment, Woetzel headed up the software development process at the Bank of New York was responsible for the technical architecture for the integration of the various business acquired by the firm including the J. P. Morgan securities processing business, Royal Bank of Scotlands UK Trust business, and the Bank of America securities processing business. Woetzel joined the bank in 1985, starting in the broker dealer division and was named division head in 1990. Woetzel began his career at the Adolph Coors company where he became head of data processing operations. In 1984 he left Coors and formed a software start-up, Mustard Seed Computer Corp., funded partially by Control Data Corp. He is a former director of the Board of the Society of Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunications (SWIFT) and a former director of the Board of the Government Securities Clearing Corp.