Talk - Pioneers’ perspectives – A message in a bottle

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Two and half years into our pioneers’ quest for business agility, we will share our ongoing learnings, how it feels to be on the voyage and where we are heading next.

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Bio - Richard James

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Richard is the Head of Digital Technology & Engineering for Nationwide Digital, where he leads work on Public Cloud and DevOps adoption, alongside driving the introduction of Scaled Agile and growing Nationwide’s internal Engineering community.

 

Richard has been with Nationwide since 2014 and has held several leadership roles covering transformational change for Mortgages, Payments and Open Banking. Prior to joining Nationwide, Richard spent 12 years with Accenture with a focus on shaping and delivering large-scale technology programmes across a range of industries.

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Bio - Geraldine Marengo

 

Geraldine leads a team of pioneers delivering value-based, new to market and market leading digital propositions, across multiple customer journeys within Nationwide Building Society.

 

With responsibility for a multimillion pound digital transformation agenda Geraldine’s experience spans the full project and product lifecycle from Business Case Development through to Delivery.

 

Geraldine brings over 13 years’ experience in Financial services and has more recently spearheaded the adoption of enterprise agile transformation creating a new community of change agents for the future, whilst driving the cultural change required to embed agile ways of working across the society.