Fidelity National Information Services, Inc. (FIS) Announced the appointment of Stephanie L. Ferris as President. Ferris will assume the President role on January 1, 2023, when Norcross takes on the role of Executive Chairman of the Board. Ferris was also appointed to the FIS Board of Directors.

In her role as FIS President, Ferris has been responsible for steering and executing the company's global business strategy, including M&A, and its global business operations serving financial institutions, merchants and corporates of all sizes and geographies. A 28-year industry veteran with expertise in payments, technology platform businesses and driving digital transformation, Ferris led the integration of Worldpay into FIS, surpassing both revenue and cost synergy commitments. She has been integral to FIS' global growth which currently supports more than 14,000 clients in over 100 countries.

FIS also announced that Norcross, current CEO and Chairman of the Board of Directors, will assume a new full-time role as Executive Chairman of the Board. Under Norcross' leadership, FIS has delivered consistent and profitable financial performance growing from a $6 billion business to the $14 billion global business it is today. During his tenure as CEO, FIS became the first in the industry to leverage cloud technologies at scale, launch an enterprise-wide modernization initiative leveraging component-based API architectures and is driving the future of real-time and digital experiences.

The company has also continually received prestigious recognition, including being named for consecutive years to the Fortune World's Most Admired Companies and Fast Company's 100 Best Companies for Innovators and ranked consistently among the industry's leading financial technology providers, including the No. 1 position in the annual IDC Financial Insights FinTech Rankings for 9 of the last 12 years.