Don Smith, Chief Technology Officer at Santander Consumer USA, Recognized as Our 2025 IT Innovator of the Year!

By Natalia Nordquist
in CIO
on December 05, 2025

The Millennium Alliance is proud to announce that Don Smith, Chief Technology Officer at Santander Consumer USA, was honored as our 2025 IT Innovator of the Year at our Digital Enterprise CIO Transformation Assembly, held November 20-21 in Atlanta!

See the full list of winners and learn how you could be our next nominee—visit our Awards Page!

About Don Smith

Don Smith joined Santander Consumer in 2020 with more than 20 years of senior executive experience in Information Technology, most recently serving as Chief Information Officer for Common Securitization Solutions. Throughout his career Don has held numerous CIO, CTO and SVP leadership roles at Black Knight Financial Services, JPMorgan Chase, Metropolitan Life Insurance, Microsoft and Dun & Bradstreet. Don brings a strong strategic and business mindset coupled with a deep understanding of the full spectrum of Information Technology disciplines essential to a safe and sound IT operation under large bank standards.

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