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Jonathan Peter Davies

Jonathan Peter Davies

CTO, CIO, CDO, Chief Transformation Officer
Tai Hang,HK

Summary

- Transformational CTO/CIO, expert at building and running world-class, complex, global technology.

- Recently supported $3Bn of revenue,13 countries, 20k+ users, all business lines for a leading Investment Bank

- Extensive experience working across Capital Markets, Retail Banking and Payments managing Complex Application and Infrastructure, creating innovative AI-driven solutions and driving continuous improvement.

- Lead Consultant at the NASDAQ, consulted at Board and CEO level to deliver Technology Transformation critical to Europe's largest IPO launch in 2019.

- Managed large. global, onshore and offshore teams of 600+ Globally, most recently, cross-APAC

- FIntech conference speaker, EDA evangelist, Silicon Valley startup experience

- Dynamic, charismatic, people-focused leader

Overview

32
32
years of professional experience
5
5
years of post-secondary education
2
2
Languages

Work History

Chief Technology Officer

BNP Paribas
Hong Kong, HK
08.2022 - 09.2023

• CTO, supporting all BNPP businesses including Investment Banking, Wealth Management, Asset Management, Insurance and Securities
• Managed 600+ Staff in 13 locations, $100M PnL
• Technology Scope included: 12000+ Servers, 3000+ Applications, 20000 End Users
• Responsible for Production SecOps and SIEM Data Lake
• Rebuilt teams after severe attrition
• Defined and executed Tech Strategy for the region, including Cloud,
• Digital Workspace, Data Centre Transformation, Obsolescence, plus stability and resilience
• Drove AI-enabled automation across the front office, restoring credibility with business, injecting urgency.

Managing Director, Global TechOps

CLSA Investment Bank
Hong Kong
11.2018 - 06.2022
  • Consolidated Tech support functions, managing 200+ Staff (onshore/offshore), supporting Global Applications and Infrastructure, End User Support for CLSAs 2100 internal staff and 2000+Fix Clients, 17 locations, 16 Exchanges, $8Bn+ of Daily flow
  • Responsible for all asset classes front-to-back, including Equities, Derivatives, Fixed Income, Corporate Applications
  • Built ground-up Innovation function, managing Big Data and complex trade analytics, predictive capacity management, using machine learning, advanced in-house APM tooling, saving $MM
  • Created world-class Service Management/Governance function
  • Manage Hybrid Cloud Operations
  • Integrating Mainland Chinese Conglomerates with CLSA
  • Driving major improvements in Production Stability, Change Quality and Build/Release/DevOps practices, reduced major Technology outages by 30%, Improved time to fix by 300%
  • $50m+ Budget, driving significant savings & Optimization across all streams (5-10% YoY)
  • Managing advanced, Digital-enabled robotized automation and optimization across entire run-the-bank stack

Private Equity Digital and Technology Lead

Concardis Group/NEXI and Bain Capital
Frankfurt, Germany, Milan, Italy
01.2016 - 11.2018
  • Key Technology Advisor to Bain Capital & Advent Private Equity, providing technology consulting and advisory services, working directly with the Group Interim CIO and Regional CIOs at Concardis/NEXI Group
  • Drove IT Operations and Service Management Transformation for multi €Bn P/E acquisition of pan-European Banking/Payments providers and build-out of key new Digital Service Offerings.
  • Managed Buildout and stabilization of key new IT Services for 5 companies, supporting160,000 Merchants, 210,000 locations, 470,000 terminals and €42Bn of transactions per year.
  • Developed Live Service Transformation plan signed off by Board of Directors.
  • Developed Target Operating Model, delivered ground-up ITIL-aligned 24-person NOC/Service Desk, trained staff, worked with Call Centre team, deployed innovative ITSM and Data Analytics tooling on-time, to budget.
  • Stabilized Production across full Retail Banking stack, including Issuing, Acquiring, settlements, drove 10+ outsourced service providers to deliver significant improvements, reducing major incidents (60%), MTTR improved 600%.
  • Deployed advanced synthetic test/monitoring tools for full Digital Stack
  • Worked closely with Architecture Teams to improve application resiliency & production monitoring.
  • Replaced/Redesigned critical ITIL processes Producing believable, business-aligned KPIs.
  • Successful completion prepared firm for Europe's largest IPO in 2019.

Managing Director, Global Markets

Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
London, UK
01.2015 - 01.2016
  • Global leader of first standalone Production Organization serving CACIB Markets Applications Globally, front to back, 200+ staff, €62M budget.

Executive Director, Production Services

UBS AG
Singapore
01.2011 - 01.2015
  • Global PSM for UBS IT Infrastructure, supporting all business units (Investment Bank, Wealth Management,Asset Management, Corporate).
  • APAC Deputy Head of Technology Infrastructure (400+ Staff, 11k users, 10000+ servers, 70+ DC/Colo).
  • Head of Technology Infrastructure for Singapore, regional face off to MAS (Singapore Regulator) plus other APAC regulatory bodies

Trading Applications Support Manager

Bridgewater Associates LLC
Westport, CT
01.2010 - 01.2011
  • Head of Applications support for World’s largest Hedge Fund with $160Bn of AUM

Interim Global Service Delivery Director

FTSE/LSE Group
London, UK
06.1998 - 04.2010
  • Responsible for end-to-end IT Service Delivery of FTSE’s Global Index calculation and Delivery platforms.
  • Worked with CIO/Board to develop and implement functional transformation, including org redesign, improving service levels from 50% to 99%+.

Executive Director, Global Head of Production

JPMorgan Investment Bank
London, UK
01.2007 - 01.2008
  • Responsible for Equities, EQD, Securities Processing and Equity Derivatives, Futures and Options and Prime Brokerage technology for JPM’s $5Bn business Unit.
  • 120+ Staff, located in London, New York, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney supporting 130+ front and middle office Applications, including Algo and Program Trading.
  • Built strong relationships with Business Heads, clearly articulated strategic plans, significantly raised responsiveness of support teams through accurate reporting and ITIL-based metrics.

CIO, offshore BPO Global Delivery Network

Accenture
London
08.2003 - 08.2024

▪ Accenture GDN Technology Lead (CIO), responsible for provision of all technology services to 10,000 Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) users in 8 offshore centres, (Eastern Europe/India/China/Philippines).
▪ Created/ implemented Architecture standards with built-in BCP increasing resiliency by 100%.
▪ Created the IT cost component of Accenture’s rate-card/cost recovery model for each offshore location.
▪ Initiated successful renegotiations of Accenture’s global Microsoft, contract lowering desktop software costs by 80%.

Chief Operating Officer and SVP Roles

Silicon Valley Startups
Mountain View And San Francisco, CA.
01.2000 - 08.2003
  • Data Centre/Hosting Services COO/Acting CEO, reporting to Chairman, responsible for Day-to-Day Operations and Sales.
  • Increased annual revenues by over 40%
  • Decreased service costs by 30%
  • Built ground-up IT department to support 100+ internal users, help to raising $12M in seed capital from Mayfield Fund.
  • SVP and GM of US West Coast Operations for managed services startup, supporting clients such as Microsoft, WebTV.

IT Director

Electronic Data Services, EDS
Uxbridge, England, England
01.1998 - 01.2000
  • Provided Network Services to customers in Spain, Portugal, France and Italy.
  • Full P&L responsibility for $100M budget and saved $2.5M from budget in first 3 months.
  • EDS’ Top European Outsourced Data Centre Operations Expert in EMEA, turned around $100M engagement Program Management Director- IT Outsourcing Pre-Sales.
  • Responsible to UK Operations Director (1200+ staff) for all Project implementation and pre-sales support ($2Bn in 1999).

Lead Consultant at NASDAQ

Digital Equipment Corporation
Trumbull, Connecticut
01.1993 - 01.1998
  • Built and Managed NASDAQ Stock Market primary trading network, supporting over 1Bn stock trades/day, largest Private IP network in world in 1994
  • Directed team of 40 Network Operations staff, supporting critical trading applications/related infrastructure.
  • Responsible for Systems & Network Administration of over 130 Ultrix/Unix Systems & 2700 routers.

Education

No Degree - Physics, Biology And French

Wycliffe College
Stonehouse, Glos
09.1980 - 06.1985

Skills

Tech Vision & Strategy and Consulting

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Professional Certifications & Technology Expertise

- Technical Training Courses: Cisco ICRC/ACRC/CCNA,VAX/VMS, Systems Analysis, ITIL V2/ITIL V3 Foundation, AWS, Lean six sigma

- Project Management: PMI Certified

- Technology Exposure: RHEL Linux, MS Server, Oracle, SQL, Postgres, Apache Cassandra, Elastic Stack, ITRS Geneos, Java, C++, trading systems, settlements, back office, retail, central banking systems (POS/ATM/Issuing/Acquiring), Telecoms, Business Process Outsourcing Applications, SAP, Peoplesoft, Openshift, VMware, Hyper-V, Azure, EMC, NetApp, Solace, Dynatrace, App Dynamics, Salesforce CRM, Marketing Cloud

Additional Information

  • Technology Conference Speaker
  • Advisory Board Member to Blockchain and Cloud FinTechs
  • Interim CTO to Gen AI enabled FinTech
  • Singapore ONEpass and Hong Kong Top Talent Visa holder (no employment sponsorship needed)
  • Keen Golf and Tennis player

Timeline

Chief Technology Officer

BNP Paribas
08.2022 - 09.2023

Managing Director, Global TechOps

CLSA Investment Bank
11.2018 - 06.2022

Private Equity Digital and Technology Lead

Concardis Group/NEXI and Bain Capital
01.2016 - 11.2018

Managing Director, Global Markets

Credit Agricole Corporate and Investment Bank
01.2015 - 01.2016

Executive Director, Production Services

UBS AG
01.2011 - 01.2015

Trading Applications Support Manager

Bridgewater Associates LLC
01.2010 - 01.2011

Executive Director, Global Head of Production

JPMorgan Investment Bank
01.2007 - 01.2008

CIO, offshore BPO Global Delivery Network

Accenture
08.2003 - 08.2024

Chief Operating Officer and SVP Roles

Silicon Valley Startups
01.2000 - 08.2003

Interim Global Service Delivery Director

FTSE/LSE Group
06.1998 - 04.2010

IT Director

Electronic Data Services, EDS
01.1998 - 01.2000

Lead Consultant at NASDAQ

Digital Equipment Corporation
01.1993 - 01.1998

No Degree - Physics, Biology And French

Wycliffe College
09.1980 - 06.1985
Jonathan Peter DaviesCTO, CIO, CDO, Chief Transformation Officer