The Digital Banking Club Power 50

RISING STARS
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Oliwia Berdak, Forrester
Oliwia Berdak is a senior analyst at
Forrester. Her research focuses on
the digital transformation of banking,
insurance and wealth management,
mapping out best practices in this
area, including technological choices,
organisational responses and the
development of suitable metrics. She
leads Forrester’s coverage of digital disruption and digital innovation
in retail financial services. In addition to advising executive
teams on digital strategy, Berdak is routinely sought after to speak
at global industry events and to comment for American Banker,
Bloomberg, the Financial Times, and Finextra.
Ankit Chhajer, RBS
Ankit Chhajer is digital lead – customer
experience design and sales innovation
– at RBS. He delivers compelling,
sustainable digital customer experiences,
propositions and proof of concepts.
Chhajer also helps to inform and direct
the future strategy for the bank. He is
an agile practitioner, transforming digital
and mobile journeys and an experienced omni-channel and
user experience enabler. Prior to RBS, Chhajer graduated from
GECRC with a B.Eng. in engineering and was vice-president of
operations – global graduate internship programme at AIESE
Chris Gledhill, Secco Aura
Top global fintech influencer, technologist
and visionary, Chris Gledhill is
on a mission to reinvent currency. Former
lead of disruptive innovation labs
at Lloyds Banking Group, he is now
CEO and co-founder of Secco Aura,
a company that monetises data and
empowers the consumer.
Gledhill regularly speaks and blogs about financial services and
is considered a thought leader in fintech.
He is passionate about disruptive technologies such as digital
currencies, Blockchain, AI, biometrics, the internet of things
and how they can be applied to banking. Chris is a proponent of
financial inclusion.
Helen Page, Clydesdale and Yorkshire Banks
Helen Page has over 20 years’ experience
in marketing, consultancy and
customer propositions.
Prior to joining Clydesdale and
Yorkshire, she spent eight years at RBS
in a number of roles. She became MD
for marketing and innovation, and
during this time Page was responsible
for developing Helpful Banking at
NatWest and Here for You at RBS, following the global banking
crisis in 2008.
Helen was also head of brand marketing at Argos, where she
played a key role in driving the business to win Retailer of the
Year in 2003.
Simon Taylor, 11:FS
Simon Taylor is co-founder and director
of Blockchain at 11:FS.
Taylor most recently built the
Barclays Blockchain R&D capability
after having been a founding member
of the Barclays Accelerator team.
Today, he advises clients on a range of
fintech subjects include APIs, Blockchain
and digital transformation.
He is a partner in the $100m Banking on Blockchain VC fund,
investing exclusively in Blockchain companies and through
www.11fs.co.uk, and is a host of the Fintech Insider podcast.
Frankie Woodhead, Barclays
Frankie Woodhead is head of digital
product at Barclays UK.
He is known well across the industry
and within Barclays for scale delivery,
impacting the core customer experiences
across online, mobile and omnichannel
banking.
Woodhead has E2E product accountability
across the bank’s login, transaction,
payments and core servicing journeys, in turn transforming
the experience of 24m customers over the course of 50m weekly
interactions.
S:13 y September 2016
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