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Bank of America Hires Homeland Security Executive To Head Business Continuity

SB Informer
Friday, August 18, 2006; 07:05 AM

Bank of America announces the appointment of Donna Bucella to the position of Business Continuity Executive. Bucella, who currently works for the Department of Homeland Security heading the U.S. Terrorist Screening Center for the FBI, will join the bank in mid-October.

Bucella will lead all aspects of business continuity planning coordination and recovery efforts for Bank of America, both domestically and internationally. She will be responsible for establishing plans, policies, guidelines and practices in support of line of business and corporate preparedness and event management. She will report directly to Corporate Information Security & Business Continuity Executive Doug Smith and will be located in Charlotte.

"Donna brings a unique set of skills to the bank along with a broad background in continuity planning and implementation," said Smith. "We are pleased to have someone with her level of expertise and leadership skills in this critically important role."

Bucella has more than 25 years of private and public sector experience, including senior litigation roles with the U.S. Army, U.S. Department of Justice and in private law practice.

Prior to her current role where she is working with the FBI, she served in the Department of Homeland Security as director of the Southeast Area, Aviation Operation in the Transportation Security Administration, responsible for the oversight and support of security operations at 80 airports.

Bucella began her career in 1984 in the U.S. Army Judge Advocate Generals Corp as a defense counsel and later as a procurement attorney in the litigation division. In 1987 she became the Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of Florida where she prosecuted drug, corruption and complex white collar crimes and became supervisor of the Major Crimes Section.

She then took on a number of different roles in the Department of Justice and in the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys where, in 1997, she was selected to be the Director of the Executive Office for the U.S. Attorneys working closely with the Attorney General and providing legal, management, operational, policy and security oversight and support to the 94 U.S. Attorneys offices. In 1999 she was appointed to be the U.S. Attorney for the Middle District of Florida.

Bucella earned her undergraduate degree in Sociology and Italian from the University of Virginia and her law degree from the University of Miami School of Law.

Bank of America

Bank of America is one of the world's largest financial institutions, serving individual consumers, small and middle market businesses and large corporations with a full range of banking, investing, asset management and other financial and risk-management products and services. The company provides unmatched convenience in the United States, serving 33 million consumer relationships with more than 5,800 retail banking offices, more than 16,700 ATMs and award-winning online banking with more than 13 million active users. Bank of America is the No. 1 overall Small Business Administration (SBA) lender in the United States and the No. 1 SBA lender to minority-owned small businesses. The company serves clients in 150 countries and has relationships with 98 percent of the U.S. Fortune 500 companies and 85 percent of the Global Fortune 500. Bank of America Corporation stock (NYSE:BAC) is listed on the New York Stock Exchange.