Discover Financial Services named Jason Strle as its next EVP and Chief Information Officer. He starts July 18, reporting to President and CEO Roger Hochschild.
Strle will help embed technology even further into Discover’s digital banking and payments businesses as the nearly $17 billion financial services firm continues its push to develop new tech-led products, enhance the customer experience and embrace new ways of working.
Strle joins Discover from Wells Fargo, where he spent nearly six years as EVP and Group CIO for the bank’s payments, virtual solutions, innovation and community banking units. There, he helped develop and install a new banking platform and expanded agile development practices to improve productivity.
Prior to that, he spent 13 years at JPMorgan Chase, which included a period as CIO for consumer banking, business banking and auto finance.
“Jason’s vast experience with a product-centric model and agile way of working will help grow, improve and expand our digital banking and payments capabilities,” Hochschild said in a statement.
Strle succeeds CIO Amir Arooni, who joined Discover in 2020. Under his leadership, Discover launched Project Runway, a broad strategic initiative focused on boosting tech employees’ skills, automating code testing and deployment and shifting from traditional project-based IT teams to smaller, tight-knit product groups.
Discover has sought to strengthen its relationship with the external technology community, particularly those using open source software. In February, the company launched the Discover Technology Experience, a public-facing website that promotes collaboration and knowledge sharing among developer communities both inside and outside Discover. The company also committed to send engineers to more than 50 events or meetups globally in 2023 and to sponsor several events focused on the open source community.
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