Bruce Hodges

Bruce has had a diverse and progressive international career in all areas of financial services; Banking, Insurance, and Investments with more than half of his career centered on technology with a particular focus on transformation.

With a dominant theme of transformation, both digital and financial, Bruce has built, executed, and overseen more than a dozen transformations of various flavors, the largest being the modernizing of ING Insurance’s IT footprint, removing 200M€ from the balance sheet in preparation for its IPO. After his final stint in Europe as CIDO (Chief Information & Digital Officer) at Generali, overseeing IT, Operations and Digital for the $70B, 60 Country Insurer, Bruce returned to Canada mid-2018.

After his return, Bruce was COO of Foresters Financial, a Canadian fraternal insurer and EVP Transformation at CIBC, one of Canadas top 5 banks. Since leaving CIBC in April 2021, Bruce has been working on a start-up to disrupt the financial wellness space and is getting ready to launch what he refers to as “the Peloton of financial services”.