Comerica Inc. Adds Noted Business Leaders to Board of Directors

Arthur Angulo is managing director of Promontory Financial Group, a business unit of International Business Machines Corp.'s consulting business segment and as an IBM partner. Alan Gardner is executive vice president and chief people officer at Frontier Communications.

Arthur Angulo and Alan Gardner have been appointed to the Comerica Inc. board of directors, the Dallas-based banking company announced.

“The experience and expertise that Art and Alan bring from their respective fields make them highly valuable additions to our board of directors,” Curt Farmer, chairman, president and CEO of Comerica Inc., said in a statement. “I look forward to working with them and continuing Comerica’s efforts to deliver growth for our shareholders, colleagues and communities.”

Angulo is managing director of Promontory Financial Group, a business unit of International Business Machines Corp.’s consulting business segment and as an IBM partner.

Gardner is executive vice president and chief people officer at Frontier Communications Parent Inc (Frontier Communications). Angulo will serve as a member of the board’s enterprise risk committee, and Gardner will serve as a member of the board’s governance, compensation and nominating committee.

Angulo has served as managing director of Promontory Financial Group since 2014 and counsels his clients on a variety of risk management and regulatory compliance matters. Angulo also has deep risk and regulatory expertise from his career at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, where he worked in numerous roles from 1987 until 2014, most recently as SVP, Financial Institution Supervision Group from 2005-2014.

Gardner is responsible for developing and executing the human resources and real estate strategy in support of the overall business plan and strategic direction in his role as EVP and chief people officer at Frontier Communications, which he has held since 2021.

Before his current role, Gardner spent 19 years at Verizon Communications Inc. and its affiliates in various leadership positions, most recently as SVP, Human Resources, a position he held from 2015 to 2019.

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