Jan Hier-King

Jan Hier-King recently assumed the leadership role for Schwab Technology. She is responsible for developing and maintaining Schwab technology-based solutions, capacity and infrastructure.

Prior to her current position at Schwab, Hier-King held several positions at Schwab, including: executive vice president of Human Resources, head of Schwab Institutional Electronic Brokerage Technology, and head of Schwab Institutional Technology.

Before joining Schwab in 1994, Hier-King served as vice president of engineering at Transaction Technology, Inc., a Citicorp subsidiary, where she was responsible for providing distributed technology to Citibank businesses worldwide. Previously, she was a telecommunications specialist at Bank of America.

As an economist with the Bureau of Labor Statistics, she was instrumental in the original development of a Producer Price Index for the telecommunications industry and was called on as an expert witness at the U.S. House of Representatives.

Hier-King earned her bachelor's degree in economics, master's degree in economics and attended post-graduate studies at Syracuse University, New York.