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Ursuline Foley
Independent Board Director, Full Board Member, Risk & Technology Committees (former Audit member)
Provident Financial Services

Ms. Foley serves on the full boards of Provident Financial Services & Provident Bank and is a member of the Audit & Technology committees. She is Chairman (& prior President) for Westchester Fairfield Society for Information Management. She serves on three university advisory boards (PACE, University Bridgeport, Rutgers Cyber Security Program), in addition to Accenture’s Insurance Innovation Board and a Blockchain startup.  Ms. Foley is a member of the National Association for Corporate Directors and the World Affairs Forum.  She also chaired global Insurance standard committees (e.g. ACORD, BRMA, RAA) for many years to help drive Insurance eCommerce adoption. 

Previously, Ms. Foley held Chief Information Officer roles, Chief Data Officer Role and Head of Corporate Operations role at XL Group (now AXA XL), which is a global provider of commercial Insurance and Reinsurance. She also served on their U.S. Legal Entity boards in former years.

Ms Foley also held technology leadership roles at; Guy Carpenter, New York Shipping and Pershing Division of Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette.  

As former Managing Director at XL Group, Ms. Foley helped drive company growth, expense containment and innovation strategies through success in multiple M&A integrations, diversification\’s, major complex business transformations, regulatory compliance, data privacy, cyber security, shared service establishment and by leading technology, data & digital capabilities globally. 

Prior to XL Group, Ms. Foley held various technology positions at other Reinsurance, Financial brokerage, Shipping and Manufacturing firms. She lived and worked in Ireland, Bermuda and U.S. (citizen).

Ms. Foley is a sought after conference speaker on technology, digital, cyber/privacy and data, plus has published many articles over the years. She holds both a Bachelor of Science and Teaching Diploma from University College Cork, Ireland, Masters of Science from PACE University NYC and a Technology Leadership certificate from Babson University Boston. Ms. Foley also attended NYC College of Insurance and also College of Finance.

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