DBS' Chief Information Officer and Head Of Group Technology and Operations, is leaving the bank.
DBS has confirmed that its group head of technology and operations David Gledhill is departing effective from 1 August. He will return to the United Kingdom, according to his announcement on LinkedIn. The 57-year-old is a British citizen calls his departure a «soft Glexit».
«After 29 years in Asia and 11 years at DBS, we decided it's finally time to move on and replant our roots back in the U.K. So, after almost two years of planning, today we announced my retirement from DBS, and the packers moved in at home,» Gledhill said in a LinkedIn post.
Continue As Advisor
Gledhill said he will stay connected with DBS in a part-time advisory role. Also an independent director with Singapore Airlines, Gledhill said he will also be back in Singapore every three months. Before joining DBS in 2008, Gledhill worked at J.P. Morgan for 20 years, holding senior regional positions in technology and operations.
A DBS spokesperson told the «Business Times» (behind paywall) that Gledhill has been a leading figure in the bank's transformation. He has been responsible for standardizing the bank's systems, creating reliability and resilience, and most recently, taking DBS down the path of agile and cloud.
Succession Plans
Gledhill will be succeeded by Jimmy Ng, who has been deputy group head of technology and operations at DBS since January 2018. Having joined DBS in 2009, Ng started his career briefly as a system analyst in Singtel before joining the technology audit function in J.P. Morgan.
He subsequently worked in various functions including operations, risk management and product control at ABN Amro.
