Peter Akwaboah is Fannie Mae's Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO), reporting to the President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Akwaboah is responsible for leading Fannie Mae’s Chief Information Office, Enterprise Operations, Business Resiliency, and Enterprise Workplace and Security functions. This unified set of enterprise shared services is central to supporting the execution of Fannie Mae's business strategy.
Mr. Akwaboah also is a member of the Management Committee, Fannie Mae's leadership team. As COO, Mr. Akwaboah partners closely with business units to respond to the needs of the market, carefully balancing innovation and risk management, to meet Fannie Mae’s mission goals and the needs of the housing finance industry of the future.
Previously, Mr. Akwaboah was a Managing Director and served as the Chief Operating Officer for Technology and the Head of Innovation at Morgan Stanley. In this role, he was responsible for driving the technology strategy with a focus on fueling the firm’s innovation, effectiveness, and resilience. Mr. Akwaboah also partnered with Morgan Stanley’s businesses to build on the firm’s technology investments and delivery opportunities to enable profitability.
Before joining Morgan Stanley in 2015, Mr. Akwaboah spent a decade at the Royal Bank of Scotland, including as Asia Pacific Chief Operating Officer for Operations, Technology, and Corporate Services. Prior to that, he held leadership roles in operations and technology at Deutsche Bank, KPMG, and IBM.
Mr. Akwaboah serves on the Boards of the Foundation of Orthopedics and Complex Spine and the Museum of American Finance. He has multiple degrees in engineering and civil engineering, including a first-class honors Bachelor of Engineering from the University of Birmingham, England.
