Tere Brun

Former Chief Compliance & Customer Advocacy Officer

FIS

Tere Brun held multiple leadership roles in her over 30 years with FIS, supporting financial institutions of every size with effective solution integration and extraordinary client focus. Her financial services and technology experiences span general management, project management, business analysis, product development, account management, implementations, client services, compliance and customer advocacy.

In her last position at FIS, Tere served as Chief Compliance & Customer Advocacy Officer leading a worldwide team of compliance professionals who ensured FIS maintained the highest levels of integrity and ethics. Her division created policies, procedures and systems to mitigate risk across a wide range of regulatory, legal and cultural environments. She had oversight of several functions, including dedicated business line compliance, anti-money laundering and sanctions, anti-bribery and anti-corruption, sales practices and businss conduct, compliance and assurance testing, internal investigations, and conflicts of interest.

Prior, Tere served as senior vice president and group executive in the Banking Solutions division. She led a team of over 1,400 that managed a portfolio of over 450 products and solutions, embracing transformational change to help more than 20,000 clients adapt high-quality, technology-based solutions. Previously, she headed the Community Core Solutions division, which included the BancPac, Bankway®, HORIZON, Mercury and MISER core platforms, and was general manager of the Community Banking Solutions organization. Before joining FIS in 1989, Tere worked for Mercantile® Bank and AMI Hospital in St. Louis.

Tere served as the FIS Orlando campus executive, and under her leadership FIS Orlando was named one of Orlando Business Journal’s Best Places to Work five years in a row, as well as a Top Workplace in 2020 and 2021 by the Orlando Sentinel. As campus executive, Tere encouraged employee empowerment and promoted charitable causes by inspiring others to become involved.

Outside of work, Tere believes strongly in the value of giving back to one’s community. For several years, she served as board chair for Camp Wewa, a resident summer camp operated by the Central Florida YMCA. For four years she chaired the American Heart Association’s inaugural Orlando “STEM Goes Red” event, which introduced more than 100 young women to careers and opportunities in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. A longtime volunteer with the American Heart Association, Tere’s leadership roles also included co-chairing its “Go Red for Women” initiative and the Heart Walk.

For her professional achievements and community involvement, Tere was named 2018 Super Woman of the Year (Orlando Family Magazine); 2019 Business Executive of the Year (Orlando Business Journal) and 2019 Woman of the Year – Business Services Industries (The Stevie® Awards). She is a founding donor at the Dr. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts, as well as a donor to the Orlando Museum of Art. She is a member of WMFE’s Cornerstone Society. Tere also supports the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and is a contributor to the Reginado Howard Memorial Scholars Program at Duke University.

Tere and her husband, Scott, spend their free time supporting one another, their community, and their family. They have three daughters — Stephanie, 35, Chandler, 28 and Isabel, 17 — and a son, Ryan, 25.