Suzanne J. Peck, Chief Technology Officer, Government of the District of Columbia
Prior to her appointment as The
Chief Technology Officer for the District of Columbia , Suzanne Peck served
as senior technology and operations executive for several Fortune 500
companies. She has expanded and strengthened existing businesses, established
technology start-u
ps,
and is now revitalizing the District's technology infrastructure.
Ms. Peck's expertise is in the conception and implementation of large-scale technology operations. Her decade-long service with the Student Loan Marketing Association (Sallie Mae) as Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, and Chief Servicing Centers Officer helped transform the $46 billion corporation into one of the nation's largest wholesale credit providers. More recently, Ms. Peck was Senior Vice President with Corestates Financial Corp. (now Wachovia) and Chief Executive Officer of its $50 million technology start-up subsidiary Transys . Previously, Ms. Peck served as a technical director with Honeywell Information Systems and as a technology Vice President with Bankers Trust New York Corp.
Ms. Peck graduated cum laude from the College of Notre Dame of Maryland and received a Masters in Business Administration with distinction from the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania .
Ms. Peck is a lecturer and adjunct professor at the University of Maryland and has developed curriculum and taught classes in systems development, applications programming, management and marketing at a number of Washington area universities including the George Washington University , American University , the Catholic University of America, and the University of Virginia .
She sits on the Board of the National Symphony Orchestra. She also sits on the boards of the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, a professional concert orchestra. She is a founding and current board member of the Washington , D.C. Technology Council.
She is married to Paul Peck, founder and CEO of the Star Scholarship Foundation, a nationwide philanthropy that awards college scholarships to African-American high school students. He also recently provided leadership gifts to the Paul Peck Alumni Center at Drexel University , and to the Paul Peck Presidential Awards at the Smithsonian Institution.