George Bell
Mr. Bell has over 40 years of experience as an information technology executive in the financial services industry. His background includes a focus on information technology development and support, project planning and execution, system design and enhancement, customer information management, organizational optimization, and M&A integration. Mr. Bell’s background also includes an emphasis on customer-centric innovation and improving the quality of products and services to enhance customer experience, providing a unique skillset to the Board of Directors.
Career Highlights
Mr. Bell served as Executive Vice President and Software Engineering Group Head II, Business Management Manager for Truist Financial Corporation from 2019 until his retirement in 2021. In that role, Mr. Bell led a cross-functional team and provided technical leadership to the human resources, legal, and business management functions. Mr. Bell held similar positions with progressive breadth at Truist’s predecessor BB&T, from 2002 until BB&T’s merger with SunTrust Bank to form Truist in 2019. At BB&T, Mr. Bell led a wide variety of application support and development teams while simultaneously enabling several new business and technical capabilities. He was the inaugural co-chair for the African American Affinity group, started the ADS ambassador program, reinvigorated underperforming teams, developed skill transition models, successfully executed the first major global sourcing project, and established the foundation for BB&T’s faster payments strategy.
Prior to BB&T, Mr. Bell was employed in numerous technology roles with Bank of America for eight years. His tenure at Bank of America included managing customer information and teller- related migration efforts for major acquisitions, managing nationwide applications, devising the initial component-based development methodology, developing the initial CRM migration strategy, and managing the initial foray into offshore support. Prior to Bank of America, Mr. Bell was with BB&T for 11 years in various technology roles.
Education
Mr. Bell graduated from Barton College with a BS degree in mathematics. He obtained his master’s in business administration from East Carolina University.