JPMorgan Chase's (JPM) chief information officer is leaving the company.
Guy Chiarello, who joined the nation's biggest bank in November 2007, "has decided to pursue new opportunities outside the firm," Paul Compton, JPMorgan Chase's chief administrative officer, said Tuesday in an internal memo.
JPMorgan Chase has named executive Mike Ashworth interim CIO while it searches for a permanent successor to Chiarello, Compton said. Ashworth is head of global technology infrastructure and a 27-year veteran of JPMorgan.
Chiarello's exit is the latest in a
Chiarello spent the past few months focusing on how JPMorgan uses the flow of information from customer interactions, web searches, social media and other sources that is often referred to as big data. He
JPMorgan Chief Executive Jamie Dimon in April highlighted the scale of the company's information technology investment. "We have 20,000 programmers, application developers and information technology employees who tirelessly keep our 31 data centers, 56,000 servers, 22,000 databases, 320,000 physical desktops, virtual desktops and laptops and global networks up and running," he
Chiarello previously served in a similar post for seven years at Morgan Stanley (MS).