Rex Engstrand
SVP, Corporate Business Continuity Planning
Wells Fargo & Company

Rex Engstrand has directed Wells Fargo's Corporate Business Continuity Planning (BCP) Office since 1999. He has responsibilities for the Corporate Business Continuity Planning Office, Site Based Plans, Corporate Incident Management, Mainframe recovery, Open Systems recovery and High Availability. He is responsible for the company-wide Business Continuity Program that focuses on emergency management, continuity of business and technology. His areas develops and administer business continuity procedures for all of Wells Fargo & Company, in addition to providing guidance and tools to help lines of business develop, implement and test over 2700 business continuity plans.

Prior to 1999, Engstrand headed up the business continuity planning office for Norwest Mortgage developing, implementing and maintaining over 300 business and technology continuity plans. He joined Norwest Mortgage in 1996. Prior to that time, he was with the Federal Home Loan Bank and The Principal Financial Group in Des Moines Iowa.

A graduate of Drake University, Engstrand has a BA in Computer Science and an MBA in Business/Finance.