Ming-Fen Wang, Thrivent Financial For Lutherans - Vice President for Information Technology Architecture and Engineering Services

Ming-Fen Wang serves as vice president for information technology (IT) architecture and engineering services for Thrivent Financial for Lutherans. In this role, she is responsible for maturing the architecture management discipline, managing information and data services, providing application engineering and integration services, and designing Web solutions for members, field, and corporate employees. Ms. Wang joined Thrivent Financial in 2006. 

 From 2002 to 2006, Ms. Wang served as vice president of IT for Ameriprise Financial (formerly American Express), where her chief responsibilities were enterprise information strategy and implementation, business intelligence solution delivery, data integration competency center, and enterprise Customer Relationship Management Component development.

From 1997 to 2002, Ms. Wang held a number of IT leadership positions at the Minneapolis office of ING (formerly Reliastar Financial) including head of Americas architecture, vice president of U.S. integrated financial services technologies, and vice president of information and application integration. From 1977 to 1996, she held various IT positions in infrastructure technical support, database management, data warehouse development, application engineering and consulting.

Ms. Wang holds two master’s degrees in computer science and mathematics from Ohio State University, as well as a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from National Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan