What Happened?
Mclean, VA-based CapitalOne hired Robert Alexander as CIO.
About the Company
Capital One Financial Corporation, incorporated in July 21, 1994, is a diversified banking company focused primarily on consumer and commercial lending and deposit origination. Its principal business segments are Local Banking and National Lending. Local Banking includes consumer, small business and commercial deposits, and lending conducted within its branch network. The National Lending segment consists of three sub-segments: the U.S. Card sub-segment, which consists of domestic consumer credit and debit card activities; the Auto Finance sub-segment, which includes automobile and other motor vehicle financing activities, and the Global Financial Services sub-segment consisting of international lending activities, small business lending, installment loans, home loans, healthcare financing and other diversified activities.
About the Person
Rob Alexander is Chief Information Officer for Capital One Financial Corporation, a diversified bank with 44 million customer accounts worldwide and 1,000 branch locations in New York, New Jersey, Texas, Louisiana, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia. Capital One’s subsidiaries offer a broad spectrum of financial products and services to consumers, small businesses and commercial clients through a variety of channels. Mr. Alexander is responsible for all of Capital One’s information technology activities. He serves on the Capital One Executive Committee and chairs the company’s Infrastructure Committee, which ensures alignment of the information technology and infrastructure initiatives with strategic business priorities. Since joining Capital One in 1998, Mr. Alexander has had responsibility at various times for a number of Capital One’s consumer financial services businesses, including the US Consumer Credit Card, Direct Bank, and Installment Loan businesses. In those leadership roles he provided oversight for all marketing, portfolio management and credit policy activities associated with these businesses. Mr. Alexander serves on the Board of Directors for the YMCA of Greater Richmond and represents Capital One on the Virginia Business Council. Before joining Capital One in 1998, Mr. Alexander was with Bain & Company, a Boston-based strategy consulting firm. While at Bain, he led consulting engagements with Fortune 500 clients in a variety of industries, including financial services, high technology, health care, and consumer products. Mr. Alexander graduated from Harvard University in 1986 with a degree in Physics. He also received a Masters Degree in International Relations from the University of Southern California in 1989 and an MBA from Harvard University in 1992.
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