Jeffrey Kurges

About Jeffrey Kurges

Executive product development leader with a track record of driving meaningful bottom-line impact for global banks through disciplined product management, policy simplification, and technology-enabled transformation. My Core Domains and Achievements:1. Specialize in designing and scaling end-to-end solutions that strengthen controls, accelerate decisioning, and improve client outcomes across complex, multi-jurisdictional environments.2. Bring deep experience setting strategy and executing multi-year transformation agendas—from concept through delivery—while steering large cross-functional teams across product, credit, technology, and operations.3. Successfully led modernization efforts that streamline processes, digitize workflows, and embed risk-intelligent automation, resulting in measurable gains in efficiency, revenue, and customer experience.4. Deliver AI embedded strategies to reduce friction, improve outcome quality, and drive measurable productivity gains. Ensure operational realities, client needs, and regulatory expectations directly shape product roadmaps, system design, and policy evolution. Translate broad enterprise objectives into actionable business requirements and into clear, technical deliverables that teams can executed.

Experience

1. Managing Director, Head of Product Management for Whoesale Credit Risk Banking and Wealth

   Citi

   Dec 2025 — Present · NY, US

   Responsible for driving the end-to-end transformation of Wholesale Credit Risk at Citi for Banking and Wealth clients, leading a multi-year agenda that modernizes policies, streamlines processes, and advances technology to deliver stronger client outcomes, improved efficiency, and enhanced controls.Oversee the strategy, development, and deployment of an integrated suite of industry-leading technology solutions across greenfield builds, brownfield modernization, and AI-enabled capabilities—including next-generation GenAI applications. Partner across product, risk, operations, and technology to ensure solutions are scalable, regulatory-aligned, and designed to transform how Citi manages credit risk globally.

Education

• Columbia Business School

  Executive Education

• San Diego State University

  Master of Arts - MA

• San Diego State University

  Bachelor of Arts - BA

Skills

• Banking
• Risk Management
• Credit Risk
• Cash Management
• Credit Analysis
• Change Management
• Global Management
• Financial Risk
• Finance
• International Banking Services
• Strategic Planning
• Program Management
• Business Development
• Operations Management
• Customer Service
• Business Process Improvement
• Investments
• Financial Modeling
• Project Management
• Commercial Banking
• Retail Banking
• Organizational Leadership