Experience
A Passionate Strategic Leader
An accomplished CIO / CTO with over 25 years’ experience directing the technology strategies of global corporations, including JPMorgan, Deutsche Bank, and HSBC. A successful partner to the business, dedicated to enhancing services through strategic alignment, execution excellence and cost transparency. Extensive experience driving complex transformation programmes across AI, Cloud, DevOps and Infrastructure.
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Director of specialised functions and global enterprise operations spanning 2,500 people. Known as an energising leader - able to build, revitalise and motivate teams to deliver and aspire to exceed.
The Tech
Consultancy
CTO
Hong Kong
Jan 2022 - Present
Providing confidential strategic Technology consultancy for Global Corporates:
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Board sponsored strategy paper on Asia Cloud Transformation and the Adoption of AI. Assessed the existing transformation programme to identify improvements and new opportunities.
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Executive Committee sponsored assessment of Trade Platform migration programme. Assessing the existing programme, business case and risks to identify opportunities to accelerate and assess the proposed operations model.
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HSBC. Board-sponsored Cloud and DevOps Transformation.
HSBC
CTO Head
of Cloud Services & DevOps Asia
Hong Kong
Jan 2022 - Jan 2024
Accountable to deliver the Bank’s Cloud and DevOps Strategy, Governance and Services across Asia.
In partnership with the Business, drive a group-wide Transformation programme to achieve the 70% Cloud adoption goal by 2027.
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Business Partner to coordinate the transformation of key services to Cloud.
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Extensive Cloud and AI experience across AWS, Azure and Google.
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Led the group Cloud Engineering Technology centres in China and India.
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Led the group enterprise architecture function for Cloud transformation.
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Accountable for all Cloud compliance, controls & regulatory management.
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Coordinated the Business Transformation roadmap for Cloud adoption
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Jointly responsible with CISO for Cloud Security governance and controls.
Deutsche Bank
Global Head of Hosting
Asia CTO
HKG CIO
Hong Kong
Aug 2016 - Sep 2021
Head of Hosting - Strategy, Engineering & Operations for Hosting services
Asia Group CTO - Infrastructure Strategy, Architecture, and Operations
Hong Kong CIO - ​Hong Kong Board member and MIC for SFC
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Accountable for the enterprise architecture function in Asia.
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Led the Global Data Centre team.
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Led the Asia Infrastructure Services team.
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Regulatory, security and audit compliance management, and remediation.
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Jointly accountable with CISO for all Infrastructure security controls, operations and compliance.
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Accountable to Asia Regulators for Infrastructure Services to the Bank and accountable to Global Regulators for all Data Centre Services
J.P. Morgan
Asia CTO Head of Infrastructure
Hong Kong
Jul 2011 - Aug 2015
Accountable for the Infrastructure services portfolio in Asia, delivering the Strategy, Architecture, and Operational management. The scope included Private and Public Cloud Services, Hosting, Data, Mainframe and Data Centres.
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Accountable for the enterprise architecture function in Asia.
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Responsible for Asia Infrastructure strategy, architecture, operations, and execution delivery.
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Led the Group Infrastructure Engineering and development Tech Centres in China, India, and Philippines.
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Accountable to Regulators for all Infrastructure Services to the Bank.
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MIC for Hong Kong SFC and CTO for the HKMA.
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Jointly accountable with CISO for all Infrastructure security controls,