David Reilly is the chief information officer for global banking and markets at Bank of America. He leads a global team of employees who provide end-to-end technology solutions and support for the Global Banking and Global Markets businesses including Equities, Electronic Trading, Rates and Currencies, Credit and Structured Products, Commodities, Sales and Capital Markets, Wholesale Banking and Research.

Most recently, David was Bank of America’s Chief Technology Officer responsible for the company’s technology networks, product engineering, desktop and electronic communications, application hosting and data storage, operations management, support services and data centers. David is a second generation Irish-American as his father is from Cavan and his mother is from Clare.

On his heritage, David said that “It has made me more resilient and more able to deal with adversity– there is no feeling sorry for yourself in that culture, unless of course you are singing about it.”