Michael Manos has taken over as Chief Information Officer at Swift, leading the global financial messaging provider's technology platform strategy. Manos succeeds Cheri McGuire, who is retiring after serving as Chief Technology Officer since 2021. He assumes responsibility for network, security, and cloud capabilities supporting a system utilized by over 11,500 financial institutions.
Manos joins Swift from Dun & Bradstreet, where he served as Chief Technology Officer. His 30-year background includes senior leadership roles at Fiserv, AOL, and Microsoft, managing infrastructure and payment platform automation. He holds a computer science degree from the Illinois Institute of Technology and multiple technology patents.
His mandate covers Swift’s roadmap to adopt new cryptographic standards, specifically post-quantum cryptography, and the corporate response to frontier AI. The transition requires maintaining global interoperability and uninterrupted service while updating defensive systems against changing security threats.
The strategy aligns with Swift's efforts to integrate regulated digital assets and tokenization into the financial ecosystem. Swift CEO Javier Pérez-Tasso stated that Manos’s experience will be an asset as the company invests in platform resilience and "enables responsible innovation."
Manos will direct global engineering teams to sustain trust and scale capabilities. Manos stated that he looks forward to working "to ensure that regulated digital forms of value can be introduced securely and seamlessly."