American International Group announced that Hugh Tamassia will join AIG as Chief Enterprise Architect on October 3, 2016, with responsibility for designing an enterprise architecture to effectively drive AIG’s IT priorities and company-wide strategic plan. Mr. Tamassia will report to Philip Fasano, Executive Vice President, Chief Information Officer.

“Modernizing AIG’s technological infrastructure by establishing a consistent architecture across the company will advance our employees’ capabilities to serve customers and represent progress toward becoming a leaner, more profitable and focused insurer,” said Mr. Fasano. “Hugh is strongly suited to deliver on this task with an eye on long-term innovation, with his experience leading both extensive enterprise architecture efforts and key IT innovation initiatives within financial services, such as the foundational platforms that support some of the world’s most widely used mobile wallet applications.”

Mr. Tamassia joins AIG after serving in senior technology roles at JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMC) for 13 years, most recently as Chief Technology Officer for Consumer and Community Banking Servicing Technology. In this position, he was responsible for overseeing management, development, and strategic investment across the core servicing and lending platforms for consumer operations. He was also instrumental in establishing the strategic plan for and then managing the restructuring program to build Operations Technology, one of the largest business-facing technology delivery organizations within Consumer and Community Banking Technology.

Prior to that, Mr. Tamassia served as Chief Architect for Chase Consumer and Community Banking, Head of Chase Innovation, Chief Technology Officer for Chase’s Private Label Credit Card, and Head of eBusiness.