Steffanie A. Brady

Steffanie Brady is senior vice president and chief information officer at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. She is also a member of the Bank’s Executive Committee.

As CIO, Steffanie offers strategic direction to the Bank’s information technology and information security groups, including efforts aimed at smart automation, strategic data management and analytics, and innovative technology research. She also represents the Boston Reserve Bank on Federal Reserve System-wide IT initiatives, including as a member of the Technology Delivery Leadership Council, and oversees the Main Street Lending Program.

Prior to this role, Steffanie held the position of CFO from 2019 to 2023. As CFO, she was responsible for all Boston Fed financial activities, including accounting, procurement, and financial planning and analysis. Steffanie also contributed to the leadership of financial management efforts throughout the Federal Reserve System as a member of the System-wide Advisory Group on Financial Management.

Steffanie also served as a vice president in the Supervision, Regulation & Credit department, where she co-led the Monitoring Analysis Program within the national Large Institution Supervision Coordinating Committee (or LISCC) Supervision Program.

Steffanie joined the Bank in 2006 as an accounting policy specialist and progressively took on more expansive leadership and oversight roles. She served in a senior leadership capacity on the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review stress testing evaluation exercise and is a recognized expert on asset management industry issues. Steffanie is a 2013 recipient of the System’s William Taylor Award for Excellence in Bank Supervision.

Prior to joining the Federal Reserve, Steffanie oversaw corporate financial reporting at Putnam Investments and led assurance audits for various financial service sector clients at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Steffanie holds a master’s in finance from Boston College, a bachelor’s from Boston University, and a certificate in artificial intelligence from MIT Sloan Executive Education.