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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

World Class Technology Operations

Global multi-cultural Leadership & mentoring

Digital Transformation

Big Data, Analytics, AI, Machine Learning and Robots

IT Governance and KPIs, Expert Service Manager

Capital Markets Business, FinTechs, Silicon Valley, Private Equity Expertise

Cloud and DevOps

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