Thomas Askew

Head Product Engineering, Investment and Bancassurance

Standard Chartered Bank

Profile:

An expert in Consumer Banking Wealth Management and Private Bank business domains with 15+ years experience including Global Team Leadership, Programme Management, Lean Operational excellence, Banking Consultancy, Technology Development, and Operations Change Management.

Built high performing teams from ground up ensuring a close alignment to key metrics supporting the business strategy. Evidenced by high levels of staff engagement, focused training/development, ensuring the right linkages across the organisational matrix and strong feedback loops from business stakeholders.

Managed the transformation of teams to instil a culture of continuous improvement, and sustainability through careful succession planning. This has been demonstrated during rapid, but sustainable growth in many roles he has performed.

Managed global delivery teams spanning across most regions of the globe. More recently, this involved large teams spread across NEA, SEA and India.

Proven leadership in running significant Change and Run the bank programmes against aggressive benefit cases. Last role was managing a change and run portfolio of over USD 50mio annually. This required strong financial management governance and processes to be instilled into the teams he formed.

Excellent track record of delivery and increasing management responsibility over large change programmes with backgrounds in both operations and technology spaces. This included direct experience with market leading technology platforms – for example, Temenos T24 platform.

Possess very strong technology and operations project management and process re-engineering skills. Certified lean/six sigma leader under SCB.

A history of working internationally, including 12+ years in Asia Pacific countries.

The latest articles from Thomas Askew

Strategy & Practice Management

Panel Feature - Developing the tech capabilities of Asia's wealth centres The technological sophistication of local markets in Asia lies behind that of other areas of the world, but these banks have the potential to leap-frog their international rivals and offer cutting-edge mobile solutions..