Wells Fargo Names Saul Van Beurden to Lead Artificial Intelligence; Kleber Santos to Expand Responsibilities and Serve as Co-CEO of Consumer Banking and Lending with Van Beurden

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wells Fargo & Company today announced that Saul Van Beurden, currently CEO of Consumer and Small Business Banking, will lead Artificial Intelligence for the company.

In addition, Kleber Santos, currently CEO of Consumer Lending, will take on expanded responsibilities and serve as co-CEO of Consumer Banking and Lending with Mr. Van Beurden. Mr. Santos and Mr. Van Beurden have been working closely for some time to deliver a seamless experience for consumers; therefore, naming them co-CEOs and combining the businesses formally is a natural out-growth of how they work today. The partnership will also allow Mr. Van Beurden to spend a meaningful portion of his time driving AI across the company.

“Generative and agentic AI will reshape competitive dynamics across every industry, and we are embracing these tools as we have embraced robotic process automation and machine learning for years,” said Charlie Scharf, Chairman and CEO, Wells Fargo. “The past year has been exciting as our world-class technology team has led us in building the technical foundation, training over 90,000 employees, deploying AI tools to over 180,000 desktops and we are now beginning to implement use cases more broadly.”

“Success will be driven by business heads embracing these new technologies and rethinking their own operating models using generative and agentic AI solutions. Saul will partner with our business leaders to ensure they are leading their own transformation and will be accountable to me for consistent and meaningful progress across the company.”

Mr. Scharf added: “I have often said that we have one of the most enviable financial services franchises in the world. We have a breadth of consumer and commercial products that few can match. The advances in AI have given us a once in a lifetime opportunity to transform how we work and we are excited by what we can deliver for our employees, customers and communities.”

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Wells Fargo & Company (NYSE: WFC) is a leading financial services company that has approximately $2.1 trillion in assets. We provide a diversified set of banking, investment and mortgage products and services, as well as consumer and commercial finance, through our four reportable operating segments: Consumer Banking and Lending, Commercial Banking, Corporate and Investment Banking, and Wealth & Investment Management. Wells Fargo ranked No. 33 on Fortune’s 2025 rankings of America’s largest corporations.

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