Chris Fritz

Wells Fargo

Director of the Lending and Investment Banking (Capital Markets) Digital Journeys

Chris is the Director of the Lending and Investment Banking (Capital Markets) Digital Journeys. In this role, he and his team are transforming the wholesale digital journey from a traditional task-based experience into a data-driven, decision-making platform that facilitates simple execution.

The team is employing market and proprietary data with digital design and AI driven workflows to make each user’s experience bespoke. Their work is done in partnership with CB and CIB teams as well as with the Treasury, Onboarding, and Self-Service Digital Product Teams. Chris is also a new host of Wells Fargo’s Treasury Takeaways podcast.

Chris came to Wells Fargo in 2022 from Charles Schwab where he was the Managing Director of the Digital Trading Experiences. In this role Chris and team defined and delivered a comprehensive and improved digital trading strategy which included the award-winning Schwab Stock Slices and the Digital Trading Redesign.

Chris formerly held senior positions with SunTrust and JP Morgan serving as SVP and Head of Digital Solutions at SunTrust and Executive Director and Head of Online Payments, Integrated File Management, and Mobile for JP Morgan ACCESS. During his time managing these products they won multiple Greenwich Associates awards for being best in class.

Earlier in his career, Chris also held position as a commercial lender managing a portfolio of middle market clients and an underwriter for large corporate finance and leasing clients. Prior, Chris was a founding partner of Fenster auf G.m.b.H. an economic development firm serving Easter Europe from Vienna. In this role Chris was allowed to operate way over his skis providing equity, financing along with consulting services (primarily financial, operational and strategic).

Chris holds an MBA from Kellogg and a BA in Business and Economics from Wheaton College where he played basketball and football while also studying Theology and Art.

Chris and his family live outside of Chicago where he spends his time trying not to feel uneducated while his wife Aimee attends Seminary, twins Caleb and Zoe attend college and his youngest, Greta attends high school.