IT Leaders

William P. Fortwangler is the Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer for Dollar Bank. Mr. Fortwangler has been with Dollar Bank since January of 2017 and in 2019, Mr. Fortwangler was named by the Pittsburgh Technology Council as CIO of the Year. Mr. Fortwangler is responsible for all areas of Dollar Bank’s Information Technology department. These areas include: Cyber Security and Identity Access, Telecommunications, Network, Infrastructure, System and Data Integration, Support and Development, Enterprise Data Warehouse, Quality management and Requirements management. Prior to that Mr. Fortwangler was the CIO for Education Management Corporation a >$1B revenue education consortium including the Art Institutes. Mr. Fortwangler has held many diverse roles within Information Technology over a 38+ year career. From Market Research firms, Chemical Manufacturing, Cloud based Online Financial Services and Outsourced Banking Services Mr. Fortwangler brings a diverse background and approach to IT Leadership. Prior to Dollar Bank and EDMC, Mr. Fortwangler served as the Vice President Technology, of Billing Zone, LLC, an electronic invoice presentment and payment company providing electronic outsourced invoicing, billing, and disbursement solutions to Fortune 500 accounts payable organizations. Mr. Fortwangler was then the Director of Information Technology with Fiserv’s Large Bank Division managing professional services and implementations for on premise and hosted solutions. Mr. Fortwangler is also an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University participating in their CIO Certification program teaching Project and Vendor Management. He also participates as a mentor in the Pgh IT Leadership development program. Mr. Fortwangler also serves on multiple Advisory boards. Mr. Fortwangler is a musician and plays guitar, and has been a part of multiple bands in the Pgh area. He enjoys the frustration of golfing and his gentle German Shepard Greta.