Fulton Financial in Lancaster, Pa., has hired a former executive at OceanFirst Financial in Red Bank, N.J., to oversee its technology operations.
The $27 billion-asset Fulton said in a press release that Karthik Sridharan will serve as chief operations and technology officer. Sridharan will be responsible for leading a team responsible for the bank’s digital customer experience, among other things.
Sridharan previously served as OceanFirst’s chief information officer. Before that, he held various IT leadership roles at Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of America.
“I’m confident Karthik is the right person to take our digital capabilities to the next level,” Curt Myers, Fulton’s chairman, president and CEO, said in the release. “He has a proven track record of improving operations and decreasing application time-to-market, while simultaneously enhancing the digital customer experience.”