Mark Schwanhausser

Director, Omnichannel Financial Services

Mark Schwanhausser is JAVELIN’s Director of Omnichannel Financial Services. Mark strategizes how financial institutions (FIs) can track and serve customers across whatever channels they use, and provide a consistent, integrated brand and user experience. Mark helps banks and credit unions profitably enable customers to monitor and manage their money more intelligently through technology such as online banking, mobile banking, personal finance management, financial alerts, and technologies on the horizon like wearables.Mark led the development of JAVELIN’s Financial Journey Model, which builds digital banking on a foundation of 10 time-tested personal finance principles, and JAVELIN’s holistic segmentation, which enables FIs to prioritize their investments to serve the critical needs of the profitable Moneyhawks™, high-value Traditionalists, and up-and-coming Emergents. His other work in 2015 has focused on how banks and billers can turn off paper statements by closing the “digital commitment gap,” why digital account opening has reached a tipping point, and how FIs can use alerts and notifications to initiate daily “conversations” with customers.Before joining JAVELIN in April 2008, Mark worked for nearly 26 years at the San Jose Mercury News, mostly as a personal finance reporter writing about money and emerging trends in financial services and payments technology.Mark has a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Missouri at Columbia and attended Antioch College. He lives in Pleasanton with his wife and has four children.