Christine Larsen

Christine Larsen is an experienced independent board director, COO and leader of digital transformation and growth. Christine is now seeking to add board roles to her portfolio with companies that will benefit from her board and operating experience. Having served on the boards of Paya Holdings, Inc (Comp Committee Chair and Audit) and Datto Holding Corp (Audit Committee) she currently serves on the board of the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC) a $60bn market cap leading North American Bank as a member of the management resources and compensation committee.

Prior to leaving First Data in 2019, she served as chief operations officer where she was Instrumental in the company’s return to growth and efficiency drive as part of its successful path back to the public markets and, ultimately, the Fiserv merger. Previously, Christine had a 25-plus year career leading technology and operations across all lines of business at JPMorgan Chase, held a number of senior executive roles at Citi, and was senior manager in the financial services technology practice at Accenture (Andersen Consulting).

Christine has extensive experience in building for rapid revenue growth, digital transformation, automation of global platforms and software development, mergers, business integrations and product development with the required service model strategy and execution through cloud and AI. As lead executive for multiple major mergers, she successfully led global business operations through major change in payments, wealth management, capital markets, asset management, asset servicing, retail banking, commercial banking, and consumer lending. Through more than two decades as a payments executive, Christine has deep experience with cross border privacy requirements, KYC/AML, and cyber security. Operating as a senior executive in highly regulated businesses at the largest financial institutions through the challenges of 9/11, the financial crisis and subsequent mortgage meltdown, and the rapid growth of FinTech payment schemes, Christine has a keen understanding of operating risk and compliance.

Christine is currently an independent board director for Alloy, a Series C fraud prevention software company (Audit Comm Chair) and M1Finance, a Series D self-directed wealth management platform (compliance committee chair). Christine is also a limited partner advisor (LPA) with NYCA, Hans Morris’ fintech venture fund.