Office of Thrift Supervision

OTS Appoints William Henley as Director of IT Risk Management

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The Office of Thrift Supervision (OTS) announced today the recent appointment of William H. Henley, Jr. as its Director of IT Risk Management.

In this position, Henley is supporting the examination and supervision of savings associations for Information Technology (IT) issues. In particular, he is the principle advisor for development, implementation and maintenance of policies, procedures and guidelines in the IT area, including Technology Risk Management. Henley is also serving as the OTS representative to the FFIEC IT Subcommittee.

Henley has served as a financial institution regulator his entire career. Prior to joining the OTS, he spent 17 years with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC). At the FDIC, he held various positions including nine years as a bank examiner in the FDIC’s Dallas region and eight years at the FDIC’s headquarters in Washington, DC. He has held positions at the FDIC as an Examination Specialist in both the Planning and Program Development Section and in the Technology Supervision Branch, and as acting Section Chief of the Capital Markets Policy Branch. In these roles, Henley facilitated and monitored the examination function and work on the FDIC’s field technology examination program.

“William brings a extensive array of information technology experience to OTS, ” said Grovetta Gardineer, the OTS’s Assistant Managing Director of Supervision Policy. “He is a great addition to our policy staff.”

Henley is a 1989 graduate of the Sam Houston State University in Huntsville, Texas, where he earned a BBA in International Business with minors in Economics and French. In 2002, Henley completed the Graduate School of Bank Operations and Technology at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN.

The Office of Thrift Supervision, an office of the Department of the Treasury, regulates and supervises the nation's thrift industry. OTS's mission is to ensure the safety and soundness of, and compliance with consumer protection laws by, thrift institutions, and to support their role as home mortgage lenders and providers of other community credit and financial services. OTS also oversees the activities and operations of thrift holding companies that own or control thrift institutions. Copies of OTS news releases and other documents are available at the OTS web page at www.ots.treas.gov.

Created: Friday, 12/15/2006