Steffanie Brady is vice president of the Large Bank unit in the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston’s Supervision, Regulation & Credit department. The unit focuses on supervising a portfolio of large and complex firms headquartered in the Federal Reserve’s First District.

Steffanie has previously served as the Boston Fed’s chief information officer, chief financial officer, and as a member of the Bank’s Executive Committee. Steffanie most recently served as CIO, offering strategic direction to the Bank’s information technology and information security groups, including efforts aimed at innovative technology research, smart automation, and strategic data management and analytics. As CFO, a position she held from 2019 to early 2023, Steffanie was responsible for all Boston Fed financial activities, including accounting, procurement, and financial planning and analysis.

Prior to those roles, Steffanie served as a vice president in the Supervision, Regulation & Credit department, where she co-led the Monitoring Analysis Program within the national Large Institution Supervision Coordinating Committee (or LISCC) supervision program.

Steffanie joined the Bank in 2006 as an accounting policy specialist and progressively took on more expansive leadership and oversight roles. She served in a senior leadership capacity on the Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review stress testing evaluation exercise and is a recognized expert on asset management industry issues. Steffanie is a 2013 recipient of the System’s William Taylor Award for Excellence in Bank Supervision.

Prior to joining the Federal Reserve, Steffanie oversaw corporate financial reporting at Putnam Investments and led assurance audits for various financial service sector clients at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Steffanie holds a master’s in finance from Boston College, a bachelor’s from Boston University, and a certificate in artificial intelligence from MIT Sloan Executive Education.