Jon Pearson

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Head of Innovation for UKI, centres on the newly formed Group Strategy and Innovation division, this has overall global coverage responsibility for the Corporate Bank, Chief Risk Office, and Office of the Chairman. Strategic ownership for driving the adoption of emerging technology and client-focused solutions supporting the global digital transformation and business growth agenda.

Responsible for the UKI Innovation team, tech ecosystem engagement, and stakeholder coverage, delivering the innovation agenda for Corporate Bank, Chief Risk Office and the Office of the Chief Executive. Innovation Chief Operating Officer with the strategic agenda of leading New York and London based teams responsible for driving the day-to-day operations of the global innovation function with budgetary oversight.

With Centres in 13 countries, the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution Network works with governments, leading companies, civil society, innovators and experts from around the world to pilot new approaches to technology adoption and governance. Deutsche Bank sponsor and engagement lead with the Centre for the Fourth Industrial Revolution

In 2014 I was given the responsibility to build and scale the innovation platform across Deutsche Bank's global footprint. The responsibly included opening offices in leading tech hubs and ecosystems; London, Berlin, New York, and Palo Alto with strategic partnerships in Tel Aviv, while driving the adoption of new and emerging technologies to pursue demonstrable cost reduction and revenue generation. https://labs.db.com/

Founding Director of the award-winning Deutsche Bank & HCL Co-Innovation Lab, a joint venture for innovation delivery in Financial Services. Focusing on co-creation and user-centred product design, the lab incubates and deploys digital products in partnership with business and technology functions. After delivering over $++m in revenue in the first two years the format was scaled globally as the core innovation service offering for HCL.

To drive divisional client coverage alignment and promote product cross-sell opportunities, the Corporate & Investment Bank commissioned me to undertake a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) and Pipeline user experience analysis to produce a strategic solution architecture enabling the realisation of specific cross-sell revenue benefits. The outputs included recommendations on CRM product development, mobile tooling, and potential strategic partnerships with Microsoft Dynamics and Salesforce.

Autobahn needed to innovate how it delivered its digital services to service ever-growing client demand to keep pace with the unfolding technical disruption and the ongoing digitisation of trading floors. Deutsche Bank hired me to build a design team from the ground up to make the next generation of Autobahn digital products and services with a particular emphasis on user-centred design to drive user engagement and target new revenue growth.