Bonstetten, Zurich, Switzerland
Driven by innovative solutions and business transformation through state-of-the-art technology, I am eager to leverage my leadership, technology, and financial industry experience in impactful roles. As a technology leader with over 20 years in global roles in the financial industry, I specialize in aligning IT strategy and innovative solutions with business objectives, driving genuine business value, and building resilient, high-performing teams. I’m passionate about creating lasting impact through strategic technology solutions. Delivering digital transformation and achieving strategic goals through effective, impactful approaches is central to my work. My experience managing complex technology transformation programs and running resilient platforms enables me to help organizations thrive in rapidly changing environments. I bring a unique combination of leadership and technology expertise, excelling in problem-solving and decision-making in dynamic settings. I foster a results-oriented, transparent work culture where collaboration thrives and colleagues are empowered to reach their goals. Feel free to connect if you're interested in discussing digital transformation, resilient technology platforms in the financial industry, or leadership in dynamic environments.
Supporting and driving the business aligned strategic and innovation agenda, allowing me to contribute meaningfully by applying the full range of my leadership and technology experiences and skills to develop and maintain resilient (IT) solutions, while also further expanding on my expertise in emerging financial services, products, technologies and methodologies, including developing digital transformation strategies, Fintech, Open Finance, Open Wealth, AI, Blockchain/Smartcontracts, Decentralized Finance, as well DevOps, Lean, and Agile.
Head of Center of Excellence, overseeing overall Wealth Change Delivery and the Wealth digital platform. Responsibilities encompasses IT (digital) strategy, innovation and new technologies, enterprise architecture, project portfolio management (SAFe aligned), test management & support, business readiness, and project delivery (new wealth products and services, open banking/wealth, affluent services, innovative features, regulatory compliance). Additionally, operational management of the legacy digital platform including 2nd-line support and change delivery (Crealogix/Avaloq). Responsible for defining, implementing and migrating onto the revised digital platform strategy with an open architecture, enabling client-centric feature delivery and rapid integration of Fintech solutions and new features. Establishing a distributed agile delivery capability with new sourcing locations, while significantly expanding capabilities in the UK and Switzerland.
Executive board member of the regional services company within the global Wealth IT organization, with responsibilities including management of country-specific regulatory, compliance, finance, supplier and HR-related matters.
Leadership role managing teams across London, Bristol, and Zurich, with responsibility for 2nd- and 3rd-level support of all Wealth applications and delivery of projects and programs, including new banking products & services, innovative features (e.g. blockchain-based e-signature solution), core platform upgrades, regulatory initiatives. Review and implemention of the IT strategy and platform scaling options including sourcing, joint ventures and application rationalization. Driving initiatives to optimize cost base and enhance processing quality in Wealth Operations through restructuring measures, automation (RPA), and process optimization. Leading the reorganization and implementation of the “Ways of Working,” aligned with DevOps principles, resulting into a matrix-structure with Center of Excellences and Domains enabling the integration of Client Journey streams within the broader Wealth business organization.
Responsible for IT Service Management teams across Zurich, Edinburgh, London, Bristol, Singapore, and Hong Kong, managing the Private Banking IT budget, HR business partnering, supplier and contract management, RBS PB project portfolio management, IT security and risk, and UK operational risk. Program manager for the integration of Private Banking IT into Royal Bank of Scotland Technology Services.
Managing Wealth IT Application Management and Infrastructure Engineering, overseeing the RBS Wealth Platform Migration and post go-live support with teams across Zurich, London, Bristol, Edinburgh, Singapore, and Hong Kong.
Responsible for the Wealth IT stream, overseeing the successful migration of RBS Wealth entities onto the new Wealth platform, including program-wide financial management, defining and negotiating the infrastructure and application management sourcing model with the selected service provider, establishing the Operations Control Center (OCC), as well seting up the Security Operations Center (SOC).
Responsible for ongoing team management and training delivery, as well assessment & restructure of unit for "processes & applications training", including recruitment of new unit head. Definition and establishment of overall training concept within Clariden Leu.
Heading the internal consulting team responsible for Clariden Leu's Project Portfolio Management (PPM) and delivery of various international strategic Business and IT projects across Switzerland, Singapore, Hong Kong, Latin America, the Middle East, Germany, and the UK Implementing the new Clariden Leu project management methodology and new business processes. Project manager for the delivery of the strategic plan for various international legal entities, including responsibilities for M&A (IT and operations due diligence and integration) and the establishment of Clariden Leu Dubai. Program lead for the successful IT migration and integration of international locations for Bank Leu, Bank Hofmann, and Clariden into Clariden Leu.