George Surdu is Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for Comerica Bank. He is responsible for supporting Comerica’s business applications on a national basis and for leading more than 850 technology professionals in the areas of:
• Business Technology Services including application development and production support
• Infrastructure and Engineering Technology Services including network, mainframe, server and storage operations, desktop/laptop management and end-user engineering
• Corporate Information Security Services
• Information Services Strategy including technology architecture and strategy, and emerging technology research
• Enterprise Project Management Office.
He has over 30 years of experience in the field of information technology. Surdu joined Comerica in early 2006, where he has led the IT Transformation and Strategy focused on implementing simplified and standardized technology solutions while increasing cost effectiveness and speed of delivery. As part of this strategy, he has introduced innovative technology to meet business operations and customer needs, and improved risk management and disaster recovery capabilities for the bank.
Dianne Shovely is a vice president in the Fraud Services division of the Financial Intelligence Department of Comerica Bank. She serves as the bank's fraud training and awareness program director and is responsible for the development, coordination and implementation of a national corporate program that focuses on raising fraud awareness with Comerica colleagues, customers and the community. She also oversees the department's collections and recovery team as well as the bank's Critical Response Phone Center. She joined Comerica in 1979 and worked in the bank's Community Banking and Human Resources departments before joining its Audit Department in 1989. She served as manager of the bank's Texas Fraud Prevention and Investigative Services Group from 1995 to 1997, before transferring back to Michigan as manager of the Report Monitoring Group. She holds a bachelor's degree in business management from Western Michigan University and is Certified Fraud Examiner.