The Digital Banking Club is about to publish their European Digital Financial Services Power 50 2015 list of banking innovation leaders and advisors from the likes of Barclays, BBVA, Citi, HSBC and BNP Paribas.
Earlier this week, I was both delighted and humbled when I received an email from Jerry Mule and Douglas Blakey announcing that I had been recognised in the European Digital Financial Services ‘Power 50’ 2015 – an independent ranking of the most influential people in digital financial services in Europe.
European Digital Financial Services ‘Power 50’
This initiative recognises the Power 50 winners for their contribution to the digital financial services industry in Europe.
Nominations for inclusion were open to members of The Digital Banking Club (@TheDBclub) and to the subscribers of the Retail Banker International publication (@RetailBanker).
Jerry and Douglas also aim to publish the full list of winners as a supplement to the October issue of Retail Banker International.
European Digital Financial Services ‘Power 50’ Judging Panel
- Douglas Blakey – Chairman of TDBC & Editor of Consumer Titles at Timetric Publications
- Alessandro Hatami, Digital Financial Services Expert
- Chris Skinner, Chairman of the Financial Services Club & Author of the Digital Bank
- Jerry Mulle, Co-Founder of TDBC & Director of Customers & Partners at Intelligent Environments
- Roy Vella, Digital Financial Services Expert
- Simon Waller, Director of Banking at Experian
A big thank you to the organisers, the judges and everybody who nominated me based on my public work on VisibleBanking.com over the last 8 years, and my regular public speaking engagements.
European Digital Financial Services ‘Power 50’ Nominees
You will find below a list of the digital financial services experts recognised as #Power50.
Please note that I’ll update the list on daily basis.
I invite you to follow this twitter list which consists exclusively of the #Power50 winners with a twitter presence.
FRANCE
- Cristina Cordovez de Villeneuve – Chief Digital Officer at BNP Paribas
GERMANY
- Matthias Kröner – Founder of Fidor Bank AG (@Kroener_M)
ITALY
- Roberto Ferrari – General Manager at CheBanca! (@ferrarirobtweet)
THE NETHERLANDS
- Maarten Molenaar – Lead Gamification & Service Design (@MaartenMA)
- Frank Verkerk – Chief Digital Officer at ABN AMRO Bank
SPAIN
- Pol Navarro – Senior Director, Head of Digital Transformation at Banco Sabadell (@polnavarro)
- David Urbano – Mobile Director at e-laCaixa
- Benjami Puigdevall – Director at e-laCaixa
- Carlos Rosa Torres – Project Leader, Mobility and New Means of Payments at BBVA (@ctv100)
- Marta Marin – Head of Multichannel and Innovation at Banco Santander
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UK
- Michael Harte – Chief Technology Officer at Barclays
- Mark Mullen – CEO and Co-Founder at Atom Bank (@atom_markm)
- Daryl Wilkinson – Head of Group Innovation at Nationwide (@DarylandHobbes)
- Grant Bourbousson – Director, Digital & Marketing at Tesco Bank (@gbourb)
- Nick Hungerford – CEO at Nutmeg (@nickhungerford)
- Giles Andrews – Co-Founder and CEO at Zopa (@zopagiles)
- Ashley Machin – Chief Digital Officer at TSB Bank
- Claire Calmejane – Director of Innovation at Lloyds Banking Group (@ccalmeja)
- Anne Boden – CEO Starling Bank (@AnneBoden)
- Chris Popple – Managing Director, Digitisation at Royal Bank of Scotland (@chrispopple)
- Darren Foulds – Managing Director, Barclays Mobile Banking and Pingit at Barclays Bank
- Derek White – Chief Design & Digital Officer at Barclays (@Derek_j_white)
- Paulette Rowe – Managing Director Global Payment Acceptance Barclaycard
- Garvan Callan – Director, Customer, Digital & Innovation at Bank of Ireland (@gpcallan)
- Josh Bottomley – Global Head of Digital at HSBC
- Kate Frankish – Head of Payments Strategy and Authorisations at Tesco Bank
- Shashidhar Bhat – Head EMEA Digital Products – Internet & Mobile at Citi (@shashibhat)
- Steve Perry – Founder and Co-Creator at Visa Europe Collab (@StevePerryVE)
- Stacy Lamb – Senior Manager, Current Account New Product Development & Acquisition Strategy at Tesco Bank (@mrsstacylamb)
- Jonathan Webster – Chief Information Officer, Digital and Transformation at Lloyds Banking Group (@Dr_JonnyW)
- Greg Coughlan – Director of Payments & Current AccountsLloyds Banking Group
- Terry Cordeiro – Head of Proposition Development – Digital, Transformation at Lloyds Banking Group (@terryc_uk)
- Stewart Bromley – Director People and Customer Experience at Atom Bank (@atom_stewartb)
- Kate Watson – Head of Customer Experience Engagement at Nationwide Building Society (@Katee79)
- Reshma Sohoni – Partner at Seedcamp (@rsohoni)
- Ewen Fleming – Partner, Practice Leader Financial Services Group at Grant Thornton
- Taavet Hinrikus – co-founder of @TransferWise (@taavet)
- Greg Rogers – Executive Director at TechStars (@gregintech)
- Ian Sayers – CTO at ZAPP (@IanSayersZapp)
- Samir Desai – Co-Founder and Director at Funding Circle (@samirdesai01)
- Liz Lumley – Managing Director of StartupBootcamp (@LizLum)
- David Birch – Director Business Development at Consult Hyperion (@dgwbirch)
- Christophe Langlois – Founder of VisibleBanking.com (@visible_banking)
US
- Teppo Paavola – Chief Development Officer, General Manager of New Digital Businesses at BBVA (@teppo321)
What makes this nomination even more special for me, is that I’ve been busy sharing my thought leadership mostly internally since I joined IBM Interactive Experience back in October 2014.
It’s a real honour to be associated with some of my good friends and most talented thought leaders like Fidor Bank’s Matthias Kroener, CheBanca!’s Roberto Ferrari, Banco Sabadell’s Pol Navarro and Nationwide’s Daryl Wilkinson.
What do you think of this European Digital Financial Services Power 50 list? Which other countries, companies and individuals would you like to see recognised next year?
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