British bank Standard Chartered that has a strong foothold in Asia hires a new chief information officer from Deutsche Bank. He will be based in Singapore.
Standard Chartered appointed Rene W. Keller as chief information officer (CIO), Corporate, Commercial & Institutional Banking (CCIB) from 1 January 2020, the bank announced on Tuesday.
Based in Singapore and reporting to Michael Gorriz, group CIO, Keller will be responsible for the entire technology strategy, architecture and delivery value chain that will deliver outcomes for the CCIB business. He was most recently group data officer and group head of innovation at Deutsche Bank, and before that, its global CIO for private, wealth & commercial clients.
He has also previously held technology leadership roles at Deutsche Börse (Germany’s international exchange), Information Mosaic (a fintech focused on corporate actions and post-trade securities processing), Swiss Life, Credit Suisse as well as UBS.
Newly Created Role
Bhupendra Warathe, who is currently CIO, CCIB will be taking on a newly created role of chief technology officer, cloud transformation. Since joining the bank in 2006, he has held various leadership roles including global head of countries and operations, information technology and operations, as well as global head of product engineering for banking products and global head of technology and operations for cash and trade.
He will continue to report to Gorriz, and continue to oversee CCIB T&I until January 2020 to ensure a smooth handover of responsibilities.
