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Annie Searle
Annie Searle is Senior Vice President and Divisional Executive for Enterprise Risk Services. Her portfolio of responsibilities includes business continuity and technology risk management for the entire company; as well as regulatory and audit assurance for the Technology Solutions Group. She is the chair of Washington Mutual’s Crisis Management Team, and a member of the company’s Public Policy Management Committee, and Technology Project Oversight Committee. She is the executive sponsor of WaMu’s technology innovation program.
Nationally, Annie represents WaMu as a member of the BITS Advisory Council for the Financial Services Roundtable (FSR), based in Washington DC, with special interests in the areas of crisis management, terrorism, and regulatory burden. She was a 2006 delegate to the FSR Blue Ribbon Commission on Mega-Catastrophes, focusing on pandemics and terrorism. Locally, she is a member of the Pacific Northwest Regional Disaster Resilience Advisory Council; the King County Emergency Management Advisory Committee; and co-chair of the Pacific Northwest Regional Recovery Coalition for Financial Services. She is the author of "US Financial Sector Prepares for Pandemic Flu," published in 2007 by the British Journal of Business Continuity & Emergency Planning, where she is also a member of the editorial board. Most recently, she chaired a panel for the 2007 Critical Infrastructure Protection Congress, titled "Pandemic Readiness: Interweaving the Plans."
Prior to joining Washington Mutual in 1999, Searle served for 15 years as president and CEO of Delphi Computers & Peripherals. For her work at Delphi, Searle won the 1992 Northwest Entrepreneur of the Year award from Inc. magazine and Ernst & Young; and the Matrix Table Woman of Achievement award in 1994. She is a lifetime member of the American Institute of Entrepreneurs.
Annie holds Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees in literature from the University of Iowa. She is a board member of NPower Seattle; of the University of Washington’s Institute for Innovation in Information Management (I3M); and leader of a volunteer technology team that works several times a year at Bailey Gatzert Elementary School in central Seattle. She is a former board member of the Washington Commission for the Humanities; a charter member of the National Women’s History Museum in Washington DC; and a patron of the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Public Library and the Seattle Art Museum.
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