Saul Van Beurden

Senior Executive Vice President,

Head of Artificial Intelligence

Wells Fargo & Company

Saul Van Beurden is Wells Fargo’s Head of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and a member of the company’s Operating Committee. He works closely with business, data and technology leaders to drive Wells Fargo’s enterprise AI strategy, focus investments on the highest-value opportunities, accelerate delivery, and scale measurable returns. He also leads Wells Fargo’s strategic engagements with leading AI companies.

Before his current role, Saul was co-CEO of Consumer Banking and Lending while also leading AI. Prior to that, he served as CEO of Consumer, Small & Business Banking where he drove a relationship-based product set, rapid adoption of the mobile app, modernization of the national branch network, and the first AI implementations at the Consumer Bank. He joined Wells Fargo in 2019 as the head of Technology and led a global team of information technology and security professionals. Under his leadership, the team executed an engineering-led IT strategy, driving the company’s transformation efforts to become cloud-based and more agile.

Saul is the executive co-sponsor for Wells Fargo’s Disability Connection Employee Resource Network, and in 2020, started the Neurodiversity Hiring program in Technology, which has now been scaled to other functions at the company.

Prior to joining Wells Fargo, Saul was chief information officer of Consumer and Community Banking at JPMorgan Chase. He also has served in Technology & Operations leadership roles at Marsh & McLennan, ING Group, and various firms in his native Netherlands.

He is based in New York.