Benoit Moreau

Senior Director Convergence & Data Strategy National Bank of Canada | Aligning capabilities, data & architecture to simplify, reuse and scale

Westmount, Quebec, Canada

About

I connect strategy to execution and make complexity simpler. Over the past few years, I’ve led major strategic and transformational initiatives in IT—most recently bringing IT, Data, and Operations closer together to deliver end to end value. Today, as Senior Director responsible for the Bank’s Convergence Strategy, I orchestrate an enterprise wide roadmap that unifies reusable business capabilities across Retail, Commercial, and Wealth, strengthens governance, and drives measurable benefits through simplification and reuse. Earlier, I oversaw the program migrating corporate collaboration tools to the Cloud, which helped enable a rapid shift to remote work for ~20,000 employees at the onset of the pandemic. I also served as IT Program Manager for the construction of National Bank of Canada’s new headquarters—coordinating technology delivery with complex stakeholder and timeline constraints. My career started in London in the financial sector. I hold a master’s degree in economics from the University of Bristol, and I’m Lean Six Sigma certified—bringing a data driven, client centric approach to optimizing processes and steering transformation programs that scale.

Experience

  • National Bank of Canada (14 yrs 5 mos)
    • Senior Director Convergence & Data Strategy
      Sep 2023 - Present · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Enterprise convergence: Established clear mandates and governance, aligned roadmaps across lines of business, and accelerated reuse of cross bank capabilities. Data & architecture alignment: Brought convergence, data governance, and domain architecture together to produce integrated value roadmaps. Operating model simplification: Advanced decommissioning and simplification initiatives to reduce complexity and improve client experience.

    • Leader IT and Business Operations Strategy
      Mar 2019 - Sep 2023 · 4 yrs 7 mos

    • Senior Manager, Digital Transformation
      Jan 2016 - Feb 2019 · 3 yrs 2 mos

  • Intact (Greater Montreal Metropolitan Area)
    • IT Infrastructure & Integration Projects Manager - Transition
      Jun 2011 - Feb 2012 · 9 mos

    • Six Sigma Black Belt & Off-Shoring Program Manager
      May 2008 - Aug 2011 · 3 yrs 4 mos

      Black Belt Lean Six Sigma (Process Management, Improvement & Design)

    • Web Analytics Manager
      Jan 2010 - May 2011 · 1 yr 5 mos

  • Certified Senior Six Sigma Black Belt at AXA
    Apr 2002 - May 2008 · 6 yrs 2 mos

    Black Belt Lean Six Sigma (Process Management, Improvement & Design)

  • Analyst at Chubb Insurance Company of Europe
    Nov 1999 - Apr 2002 · 2 yrs 6 mos