Sunayna Tuteja named the Fed's chief innovation officer

Sunayna Tuteja is now the Federal Reserve System's (Fed) Chief Innovation Officer, according to a LinkedIn update. Tuteja took up the role in February.

As seen on her LinkedIn profile, prior to joining the Fed, Tuteja was Managing Director, Head of Digital Assets at TD Ameritrade, a broker that offers an electronic trading platform for the trade of financial assets, where she spent over 6 years working there. Before that, Tuteja was with TD Bank Group (TD), the sixth largest bank in North America, for 6 years.

Tuteja is a graduate of Standford University and the University of Alberta.

Tuteja described herself as "super grateful for a mission driven career of leading change and solving gnarly problems at the nexus of finance, technology and policy."