Mike Brady
Chief Technology Officer at Wells Fargo
Charlotte, North Carolina, United States
About Mike Brady
Mike Brady is Chief Technology Officer at Wells Fargo. Location: Charlotte, North Carolina, United States.
I am a global technology executive with 25+ years of experience driving transformative change at Fortune 100 companies. With relentless customer focus, I’ve led multi-billion-dollar modernization efforts that scale adoption of new technologies, improve service delivery, and unlock operational efficiency. I know that strategy and technology alone don’t deliver results—it’s culture, leadership, and empowered teams that create lasting impact. That’s why I prioritize building diverse, globally distributed organizations that are motivated to innovate, even in the most highly regulated industries. I also invest deeply in fostering enterprise-wide collaboration, knowing that complex transformations succeed through shared purpose. Career Highlights: • Stabilized a $70B healthcare company’s initial digital medical records rollout in life-critical environments. • Optimized a $3T financial services firm, improving client performance ranking from 12th to 3rd across 25M customers. • Led post-crisis transformation at a global insurer—moving from stabilization to optimization and achieving a 14x increase in business deployment speed. • Served on industry boards focused on responsible adoption of emerging technologies, cost transparency, and business value realization. Throughout my career, I have championed the thoughtful adoption of emerging technologies globally to ensure companies remain at the forefront of their industries. From cloud and DevOps to artificial intelligence, my experience has been that teams can learn quickly by adopting Lean Startup principles and other innovation methodologies to achieve value in months, not years. I’m a strong believer in servant leadership and invest heavily in empowering my teams by supporting opportunities for continuous learning, training and professional development. My own passion for continuous learning manifests across different aspects of my life – from my love of staying on technology’s cutting edge and receiving a patent, to taking my interest in boating to the next level by earning a Coast Guard 50-Ton Captain’s License. I am also an avid student of all things wine, particularly after working on the West Coast just a short drive from the Napa Valley region. I have both an Italian and a U.S. passport, which makes traveling across the EU much easier. Having lived in Boston, San Francisco, Charlotte and New York, I’ve learned that every city is special and has something to offer in its own unique style.
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Additional experience
Chief Information Officer
USAA
December 2018 – November 2021
Education
- Corporate Director Certificate, Harvard Business School
- Telecommunications Science, Golden Gate University