Anna is the lead for Bank of Montreal’s Payments Modernization and Solutions. She led the development of the payments technology strategy, architecture and solutions for the multi-year, multi-phase payment modernization initiatives across high-value wires, AFT and real-time payments. Recently, Anna led and implemented BMO’s Payment Hub last September and received the 2019 Celent Model Bank Award. In prior years, she has also led the successful implementation of BMO’s Enterprise Wire Platform which won the Best Corporate Payments System/Service Initiative at the 2016 Banking Technology Awards. Before joining Bank of Montreal, Anna had worked at RBC, Citibank, IBM Laboratory where she had done extensive software design and development. Anna holds a Bachelor degree in Information and Computer Science from the University of California, Irvine.