Matt Calman

Matt Calman is Senior Vice President and R&D Executive at Bank of America. He leads the Center for Future Banking, a joint venture between the bank and the MIT Media Lab focused on rethinking the human financial experience. His organization also includes the Gateway Innovation Lab and the Innovation Enablement Team. Calman joined the bank in 1986 in Corporate Trust and has led teams in information technology, strategy, and process design. In 2002 he was certified as the bank’s ninth Six Sigma Blackbelt. Calman was the business champion for the bank’s "Check 21" architecture, including inter-bank check image exchange and the transaction engine for image deposits. He founded several industry workgroups focused on business and technical standards for emerging image transaction processes. In his current role, Calman brings together cutting-edge research at MIT with strategies and innovation capabilities across the enterprise. He also leads an innovation team for China Construction Bank, building innovation labs and teams in China. Calman has authored more than 30 U.S. and foreign patents and was named Bank of America’s first Inventor of the Year in 2008.

Matt Calman was an undergraduate engineer at Carnegie Mellon University and earned his master’s degree from Georgia State University’s Executive MBA program in 1999. He serves on the boards of the Association of Managers of Innovation and the RDI Centre and is active with the Financial Services Roundtable and NACHA. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina.