Jon Jeswald
VP - Payment Strategy Executive, Federal Reserve Bank
Jeswald is the Vice President for the Federal Reserve's Payments Improvement Initiatives. He supports activities relating to the Federal Reserve's Faster Payments strategy including key work efforts associated with the task force. Jon also works closely with the Secure Payments team on integrating work efforts across both Faster and Secure Task Forces. Jeswald's 25-year career at the Federal Reserve began in financial services where he held leadership roles in both local check operations as well as at the system level, leading the implementation of the Federal Reserve's multi-year strategic initiative to restructure its 45 check operations and implementing the Check21 system. For the past 6 years, he has worked in the Federal Reserve's National Information Technology Division with responsibilities for IT Strategies and Standards. Jeswald holds a Bachelor of Science degree from The Ohio State University and a Master of Business and Science Degree from John Carroll University.