Speaker Biography
GEORGE G. SURDU
Chief Technology Officer, Information Services
Comerica Bank
George Surdu is a Senior Vice President and Chief
Technology Officer at Comerica Bank. In this capacity
Mr. Surdu oversees Comerica's Information Services
department. He is responsible for business technology
services (applications for wholesale banking, retail
banking, transaction processing, commercial loans/credit,
trust, corporate, and affiliate services), infrastructure
management (mainframe and server operations), information
security, architecture and technology planning,
telecommunications (Wide Area Network data and
voice), and workstation management.
George retired from Ford Motor in 2005. During
his 28 years at Ford, he held numerous senior executive
positions, including CIO positions for Ford Parts
Distribution Systems and the Office of the General
Counsel, head of the Company's global application
development services, and global IT infrastructure.
As Strategic Planning Manager for Ford Credit he
developed the IT strategy in support of the business
as it consolidated operations in North America
. During the mid 1990s, he led the business and
IT reengineering efforts for Product Development,
and as the year 2000 approached, led the Company's
global Year 2000 Program that successfully remediated
and certified technology in all cars and trucks
back to 1977 (first EEC-1 modules), all plant floor
control and robotic systems, all supplier and dealer
interfaces, all Ford Land physical infrastructure,
all IT infrastructure, and more than 350 million
lines of code. Following the year 2000 effort,
he developed and successfully implemented a global
simplification and defragmentation strategy that
reduced operating costs by more than $300 million
annually.
George is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University
where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Mathematics
and Computer Science and a master's degree in Pure
and Applied Mathematics. He has completed course
work toward an MBA, and has attended numerous technology,
process reengineering, program management, leadership
and change management courses over his professional
career. George and his wife of 35 years, Margaret,
live in Novi , Michigan . They have two children,
Tracie and Trevor, both graduates of Michigan State
University , and two grandchildren. |
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