Executive Bio
Matt Rider - Enterprise Technology Executive
Executive Summary
Matt Rider is a senior enterprise Chief Information Officer with 25+ years of experience leading large-scale modernization, integration, and operating model transformation across highly regulated financial services environments. He has served as CIO for national banking and mortgage platforms supporting millions of customers and is known for stabilizing complex technology ecosystems while modernizing them to support growth, resilience, and regulatory confidence.
Across his career, Matt has led $100M+ transformation initiatives spanning core platform modernization, cloud migration, cybersecurity uplift, data and analytics enablement, and enterprise operating model redesign. He has built and led global organizations of more than 2,500 professionals, consistently aligning technology strategy to business outcomes while reducing cost, complexity, and execution risk.
Career Scope & Impact
A defining dimension of Matt’s leadership is his experience operating in high-stakes environments where stability, judgment, and execution discipline are paramount. At JPMorgan Chase, he held a senior leadership role in technology integration efforts during the 2008 financial crisis, including the rapid integration of Bear Stearns and Washington Mutual platforms. His work contributed to the stabilization of critical operations under intense regulatory, market, and operational scrutiny.
He later applied this crisis-tested discipline as Chief Information Officer at Franklin American Mortgage Company, where he led enterprise-wide modernization and played a key role in the company’s successful acquisition and integration by Citizens Financial Group. As CIO of Wells Fargo Home Lending, Matt served as a trusted advisor to senior executives, responsible for modernizing one of the largest mortgage technology environments in the United States while strengthening technology risk management and cybersecurity governance aligned with regulatory expectations.
Leadership & Advisory Work
In addition to his operating roles, Matt has served in executive advisory capacities, working with boards, CEOs, CIOs, and COOs on modernization strategy, integration planning, operating model evolution, and the governance of enterprise AI adoption. His approach emphasizes disciplined execution, clear accountability, and a measured balance between innovation and stability in environments where trust, resilience, and regulatory confidence are essential.
Matt is based in Nashville, Tennessee and engages in select executive leadership and advisory opportunities where enterprise-scale experience, judgment, and execution rigor are critical to success.
Current Focus
Matt is based in Nashville, Tennessee, and is open to enterprise CIO, integration leadership, and strategic transformation roles where experience, judgment, and execution rigor are critical to success.