Deutsche Bank hires a duo in India focused on overseeing and enhancing the bank’s technology, data and innovation capabilities.
Dilip Khandelwal joins as the bank’s managing director and head of technology centers. In his Pune-based role, he will oversee the bank’s tech centers globally to create «one, consistent strategy». In addition, Khandelwal was also named as the bank’s APAC head of technology, data and innovation as well as chief information officer for human resources, legal and communications.
The bank also appointed Gil Perez as managing director and head of strategy and innovation. According to an announcement, Perez will oversee innovation strategy, thought leadership and technology innovation partnerships to match the bank’s needs with relevant third party tech solutions.
Khandelwal and Perez both join from software provider SAP where they’ve had experience with undergoing various forms of tech transformation. Khandelwal led a large scale transformation to accelerate client adoption of cloud services at SAP while Perez spent 8 years with former employer where he guided enterprise companies with their respective digital transformation journeys.
The opportunity to transform technology at a global company like Deutsche Bank is a unique challenge for talented and ambitious technologists, said Bernd Leukert, head of technology, data and innovation at Deutsche Bank.
