Citibank’s (NYSE: C) head of online and mobile banking, Liza Landsman, is leaving the company after being named to help transform the company’s consumer business with new technologies, according to a report from Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
Landsman, age 41, submitted her resignation last week, according to the report. She was appointed to her post in August 2009 by then-North American consumer banking chief Teresa Dial who led an effort to transform the business into a “Bank of the Future.” CEO Vikram Pandit replaced Dial in January and her successor, Manuel Medina-Mora, has developed his own strategy.
Former international online banking head Thomas Noyes said to Bloomberg, “If they can’t keep people like Liza, things aren’t going to get done…She was very well-respected.”
During Landman’s time with the bank, Citi Mobile developed applications for the iPhone which allowed users to access account information on their phones. Last month the bank said that it’s application inadvertently saved customer information to users’ phones, which may have also been transferred to computers if they synchronized their phones to PCs. Citigroup released an update to the application which resolved the issue.
The company also debuted Citi Shopper, a GPS-linked application which compares provices and provides maps to nearby retailers. Citigroup also began offering text-banking which allowed customers to have information about their accounts sent to them via text message.
