Gregory Brown

Chief Digital Officer (SVP) , Canadian Personal & Business Banking

York, Ontario, Canada

About

A passion for digital, customer experience and using data driven insights to achieve business objectives. Experience developing and executing multi-year growth plans, building large highly engaged and performing cross functional teams, and developing scalable, dev ops and cloud enabled applications that deliver or exceed business objectives.

Experience

  • BMO (Permanent Full-time · 9 yrs 11 mos)
    • Chief Digital Officer (SVP) Canadian Personal & Business Banking
      Aug 2025 - Present · 11 mos

      Accountable for Canadian Personal and Business Banking digital strategy, and execution including driving digital sales, engagement and self service , delivering digital experiences that help customers make real financial progress , and accelerating adoption of AI to power our digital experiences. Also accountable for North American digital shared services.

    • Head (VP) North American Digital Product Management- Sales & Marketing
      Aug 2021 - Aug 2025 · 4 yrs 1 mo

    • Head (MD), North American Digital Product Sales & Marketing
      Feb 2021 - Aug 2021 · 7 mos

      Lead large scale agile enabled cross functional teams responsible for website marketing, development and delivery, and self-serve sales experiences for BMO North America supporting Personal, Business Banking and Wealth businesses. Responsible for developing and executing BMO's multi-year digital sales transformation strategy in support of BMO's enterprise Ambition 2025 strategy.

  • Board Member at Good Shepherd Ministries
    Oct 2024 - Present · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Advisor at Holt Accelerator
    Jun 2018 - Jun 2019 · 1 yr 1 mo

  • goeasy Ltd. (Mississauga, Ontario)
    • Director of eCommerce & Digital Marketing
      Nov 2013 - Aug 2016 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Lead eCommerce and digital marketing strategy and management for easyhome.ca (retail) and easyfinancial.com (financial services) for Canada's largest and fastest growing alternative financial services company.

    • Director of Merchandising and eCommerce
      Jan 2012 - Nov 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos

      Lead merchandising strategy for easyhome Ltd. for 250+ retail locations in Canada and the U.S. Developed the first fully transactional lease-to-own eCommerce website in Canada generating 3% of total retail sales in its first year.

    • Category Manager Furniture and Appliances
      Apr 2009 - Jan 2012 · 2 yrs 10 mos

      Proven track record of managing category spends to budget and forecasting inventory needs through lease life cycle. Managed team of merchandising analysts, driving new processes and improving store support and response times.