Credit Suisse’s new technology chief wants her team to adopt agile working practices and develop a «robust engineering culture.»
Joanna Hannaford, who joined the Swiss bank as chief technology and operations officer in January, has formed her team and laid down its top-down priorities in an internal memo seen by finews.com.
«(We will) adjust our financial framework to support agile practices, which we will deploy across the bank,» Hannaford says in her bank-wide message to employees.
The move emulates cross-town rival UBS’s shift to agile working methods introduced when its CEO Ralph Hamers took over more than a year ago.
Hannaford also intends to use technology to identify opportunities in governance to reduce bureaucracy and to «streamline decision-making and accelerate code deployment while improving the management and control of risks,» according to the memo.
Effectively immediately the following employees will report directly to Hannaford:
- Laura Barrowman, chief information officer.
- Nikhil Patel, chief information security officer.
- Nicola Kane, global operations & chief payments officer.
- Mathias Thielen, COO / finance.
- Erin Donoghue, resilience, governance & risk.
- Samuel Berner, chief talent officer.
- Claude Honegger, senior advisor.
- Adrian Pearce, head of advisory services & chief data officer.
- Madlen Hofmann, senior executive assistant.
Divisional and functional technology leads reporting to chief information officer Laura Barrowman are:
- Luis Pereira, wealth management technology.
- Kirsten Renner, Swiss bank / SBIP technology.
- Stephane Rey, asset management technology.
- Marinela Tudoran, investment bank technology.
- Andreas Blatt, compliance technology and risk technology a.i.
- Raj Vig, finance and legal technology.
- Mark Ellis, operations technology, Patrick Maes, HR technology.
