Bob Passini

President and Chief Executive Officer Farm Credit Financial Partners

Last Reviewed: September 26, 2026

Executive Summary

Bob Passini is President and Chief Executive Officer of Farm Credit Financial Partners (FPI), the customer-owned service organization that describes itself as the largest provider of technology products and services to the Farm Credit System. FPI builds and runs the lending and operating technology for agricultural credit associations whose territory stretches from Maine to California. Passini came to the job from risk rather than lending. He joined FPI in 2019 as its Chief Risk Officer after a career in IT infrastructure and business resiliency, and he became chief executive in October 2020. He holds the CISSP security credential.

Career Highlights

• President and CEO of Farm Credit Financial Partners since 1 October 2020, succeeding interim president Bill Lipinski.
• Joined FPI in March 2019 as Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer, responsible for the legal team, data governance and enterprise risk management, including cybersecurity and vendor management.
• Previously Chief Resiliency Officer of a Fortune 500 insurance and financial services company.
• Chaired the LOMA Business Resiliency Committee from 2013 to 2017.
• Holds the Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) designation and is a member of (ISC)² and FS-ISAC.

Professional Journey

Passini’s early career was in information technology. FPI describes him holding senior positions that led a range of IT initiatives, with recognised expertise in infrastructure architecture, network technologies, hardware and software standards, security protocols and shared services models. From there he moved into risk and business resiliency, the discipline of keeping a financial institution running through outages, cyber incidents and disasters. Most recently he was Chief Resiliency Officer of a Fortune 500 insurance and financial services company. From 2013 to 2017 he chaired the Business Resiliency Committee of LOMA, the insurance and financial services industry association.

He joined Farm Credit Financial Partners in March 2019 as Executive Vice President and Chief Risk Officer. There he oversaw the legal team, data governance and the enterprise risk management programme, including cybersecurity and vendor management. FPI was founded in 1995 and is owned by the Farm Credit associations it serves. It supplies their lending systems and technology, which puts security and resilience close to the centre of its work.

In August 2020 FPI’s board announced him as President and CEO, effective 1 October 2020, succeeding interim president Bill Lipinski. FPI’s customer base has changed shape during his tenure. In 2020 it served six associations with more than 62,000 members and $40 billion in assets. By July 2026 it served four associations with 123,000 members and $57 billion in Farm Credit assets. That month FPI earned Great Place To Work Certification in its first year of taking part, which Passini said reflected “the culture we’ve built together”.

Education

No record of his education was found in any first-party source read for this profile.