Jerry Denman

Senior Vice President, Core Technology & Operations , Truist

Jerry is Senior Vice President at Truist Financial as the Core Technology & Operations Compute and Storage Guild Leader. He is leading a team through the merger of Suntrust and BB&T, moving the bank to use Cloud, and implementing Infrastructure as a Service.

Prior to Truist Jerry spent 20 years with IBM. He was an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Vice President and spent the last several years there with a focus on cloud adoption for financial services worldwide addressing risk and compliance, security, and regulated workloads. His expertise also includes secure VMWare cloud, containers, high performance compute in cloud, and app modernization.

Jerry lives in Greenville South Carolina. He is an advisory board member for Greenville Technical College’s Supply Chain and Computer Technology Departments.