Ben Issa

Global CIO, Technology and Architecture

Greater Sydney Area

About

Experience

  • Standard Chartered (Full-time · 4 yrs 5 mos)
    • CIO Technology and Architecture
      May 2024 - Present · 2 yrs 3 mos

    • Global Head, Technology Strategy and Architecture
      Mar 2022 - May 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

  • ING (Sydney, Australia)
    • CIO Retail Asia
      May 2017 - Mar 2022 · 4 yrs 11 mos

      Leading IT retail banking in Asia.

    • Chief Architect Challengers & Growth Countries
      Mar 2016 - Mar 2022 · 6 yrs 1 mo

      Responsible for maturing and maximising the value technology and architecture brings to the challenger and growth ING banking countries.

  • ING DIRECT Australia (14 yrs 4 mos)
    • CTO
      Jan 2016 - Mar 2022 · 6 yrs 3 mos

      Responsible for maximising the value technologies bring to the organisation and it's customers

    • Head of IT Strategy
      Feb 2011 - Mar 2022 · 11 yrs 2 mos

      I am responsible for driving innovation through strategy and execution. The role centers on transformational initiatives across the business. In this capacity we have driven and delivered two world firsts - Implemented a fully virtualised, self service and automated system that provides copies of the bank on demand for pre-production purposes - Moved the whole production environment of the bank onto a fully virtualised and automated private cloud Currently leading the global transformation of a new digital platform for mobile and digital banking

    • Head of Applications Development
      Aug 2010 - Jan 2011 · 6 mos

      Manager of all development teams and technologies

  • ING DIRECT Australia (5 yrs 1 mo)
    • IT Architect (Enterprise Architecture Group)
      2004 - 2007 · 3 yrs

    • Senior Developer
      2002 - 2004 · 2 yrs

  • Senior Developer/Presales Consultant at Powerserve
    2000 - 2002 · 2 yrs