Mr. Colin Dinn

Platinion Managing Director, Boston Consulting Group, Thailand


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A wealth of experience, having worked across financial services, consulting, and vendor management in both Asia and Europe. His background includes, addressing business and technology design, building for the future, and managing the rapid expansion of digital and data while ensuring resilience and growth within core technology and delivery.

Colin has been accountable for designing transformation strategies for banks, positioning them to leverage new business models alongside traditional banking capabilities. His core skills encompass banking transformation, digital and data innovation, CTO and CIO roles, banking operations, technology architecture, business re-engineering, complex project delivery, change management, core banking implementation and building a bank from the ground up.

In the most profitable Bank in Vietnam his task was to address the technology, designing and building for the future, growing digital and data, while ensuring the resilience and growth within core technology and delivery. This has been coupled with the wider accountability of designing the next stage of transformation for the bank, across business and technology positioning the bank to exploit new business models alongside the traditional banking capability.

Earlier roles have included working across several transformations in different Asian markets with a mandate to revamp the technology and operations capability, while driving through a transformation agenda. These included roles within a major consultancy as well as in the ‘C’ Suite, leveraging technology to exploit the new market capability. In the role of CTO and Head of Operations for Major Thai Bank, he created new technology capability to provide advanced digital and data services, coupled with an increase in stability of the core technology capability. This journey entailed a leapfrog in technology architecture using core components such as Data and Orchestration API building out the decoupling layer and deployment of micro services to increase speed and agility into the delivery. Incorporated in the migration is the move from traditional to agile delivery with customer centric design thinking, ‘tagging’ this as assembly architecture in reducing time and cost to market. The journey into Cloud Computing progressed to provide scalability and more adaptable solutions for improved business agility. Additionally, disruptive technologies were exploited such as block chain to provide the first live international remittance in Asia, second worldwide.

Previously he was Group Executive for ANZ assigned with overall delivery responsibility for build of a new wholly owned ANZ subsidiary bank ANZ Thai in 9 months, this encompassed all aspects of the business and technical design, property, recruitment training with the final step being regulatory approval. Other roles in ANZ included strategic planning & solution delivery, design, build and implement of a regional based retail and corporate banking model including core banking, finance and regulatory reporting systems, first implementation in China in 6 months.

In his role in Vendor Management, he was Managing Director for Fidelity Information Systems (FIS) in Greater China with responsibility to re-architect the core banking and restructure the business to increase profitability. This includes the management of Core Banking Implementations across China.

Colin first role in Asia was Head of IT Strategy with Standard Chartered. Colin’s early career in banking was in HSBC (Midland Bank) in the UK covering technical and business roles.