Panelist - Daniel Ayala - Wells Fargo & Company - Bio

Daniel Ayala, Executive Vice President Global Remittance Services at Wells Fargo & Company

Daniel's Bio:

Daniel Ayala is Executive Vice President and business unit manager for Wells Fargo’s Global Remittance Services group.

He manages product development, product management, operations and customer service for Wells Fargo’s consumer remittance service activities. Ayala and his team manage the Wells Fargo ExpressSend service and other products focused on consumer remittances to Asia and Latin America.

Ayala is a global payments systems expert with more than 20 years of related consumer and wholesale banking experience. Previously, he has been responsible for corporate and financial institutions treasury management activities focused on product management, marketing and sales management for Citibank, JP Morgan Chase and Bank of America.

Over the past thirteen years, Ayala has emerged as a renowned consumer remittances expert and has been widely recognized as a key industry leader by regulators, the media and academia. He is a founding senior leader for Wells Fargo’s Latino team member resource group “Amigos”. He has represented various lines of business in the Corporate Diversity Council. Ayala has also represented Wells Fargo in various non for profit organizations, including most recently, the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute (TRPI) in Los Angeles, CA and La Clinica de La Raza in Oakland, CA. In 2013, Ayala became a member of the Community Bankers Association (CBA) – Graduate School of Retail Banking Management School faculty.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science from DePaul University in Chicago, Illinois and an MBA from Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Ayala is a Certified Cash Manager (CCM) with the Association for Financial Professionals. He is a graduate member of the Wells Fargo Diversified Products Management Development program. He is also a graduate of the Graduate School of Retail Bank Management – Class of 2010. He co-invented the Global Remittance Platform which was granted US Patent protection in 2013. Ayala has traveled to more than 46 countries around the world and in the past, he has lived in Bogotá, Colombia; Caracas, Venezuela; Chicago, Illinois; and Miami, Florida. He currently lives in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.