Anita Yacono is a vice president at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston with responsibility for the development and execution of FedNow^SM’s program strategy for project tools, standards, resource management, and processes, and ensuring executive leadership has the information needed to be successful by monitoring and tracking activities, issues, actions, risks, and critical dependencies.

Prior to joining the Bank, Anita worked at Citigroup in New York where she held several roles, most recently serving in the Chief Technology Office as the director and head of the project management office where she managed a global team of more than 100 program and project managers.

Anita holds a bachelor’s in business administration and management information systems from Montclair State University and a master’s in management and business strategy from Rutgers University.