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Yuri Misnik is a highly experienced senior technology and thought leader in the world of banking, cloud, data and is a passionate technologist. and innovator at heart.

Yuri moved to Abu Dhabi at the backend of 2019, where he took a position as Group Technology Officer and Member of the Group Executive Committee at First Abu Dhabi Bank. In this position, he aims to help FAB continue to evolve and develop their service offering to their customers, whilst also innovating the technology landscape at the bank and improving their platform services and technical capability.

Yuri is also an Executive Technology Advisor for KKR & Co. and sits on the CIO Advisory Committee at Amazon Web Services. Prior to joining FAB, Yuri was the CIO at National Australia Bank and was the Digital CIO at HSBC, where he led a team of around 5,000 technologists globally.

It goes without saying that Yuri knows first hand how to lead global organisations and brings his passion for technology and innovation with him everywhere that he goes. In this episode, we get an introduction into Yuri's incredible story so far and also, start to hear some of his thoughts around banking, innovation in FS and learn some of the initiatives and projects he is working on with FAB.

One hour unfortunately wasn’t anywhere near enough time to really get under the hood of the man himself, so we are excited to announce that we are hosting another episode with Yuri where we will go more into the realm of open data and real innovation within banking.

We hope you enjoy the episode!