Deepa Soni is a dynamic technology executive with over two decades of experience leading digital transformation across highly regulated, customer-facing industries.
Deepa earned her bachelor’s degree from Thapar Institute of Engineering & Technology, and her master’s in Electrical Engineering from Missouri University of Science and Technology. She began her career in 1999 as an Advisory IT Specialist at IBM.
In 2001, Soni joined KeyCorp, where she spent nearly a decade rising from Enterprise Architect to Director of Enterprise Architecture and Process Engineering. She established enterprise-wide technology standards that saved $18 million in four years.
In 2010, Deepa joined M&T Bank, where she led technology for retail, business, and digital banking, supporting 750 branches and 2,000 ATMs. She later led a global team of 900 and launched a new, more intuitive mobile banking platform. In 2016, Soni was named U.S. Chief Information Officer of BMO, leading technology for the bank’s U.S. business.
In 2019, Deepa joined The Hartford as Chief Information Officer and was later named Chief Information and Operations Officer, leading a team of more than 13,000 and driving the company’s growth agenda through technology, data, and AI.
In 2025, Soni was named Executive Vice President and Chief Information Officer of New York Life, where she serves on the Executive Management Committee and oversees enterprise technology, cyber, data, and artificial intelligence, as well as New York Life Ventures, the company’s venture capital arm.
Deepa has given back as a board member of the American Heart Association’s STEM Goes Red initiative.