Change the Narrative Ep01 - Mohamed Ait Si Brahim, CTO of Hargreaves Lansdown

Join Crosstide's Chief Commercial Officer, Francesca Lavey, as she sits down with Mohamed Ait Si Brahim, CTO of Hargreaves Lansdown. Mo shares insights from his 25-year career in financial services and discusses the changing role of the CTO.

Key talking points you'll discover:

• Career trajectory of a tech leader: Understand the natural progression to a CTO role and the principles that have guided a 25-year career in financial services technology
• The skills needed in a modern technology team: Learn about the crucial non-technical abilities – storytelling, communication, and strategic translation that are essential for career advancement in tech leadership
• How to balance the short-term vs. long-term: Gain insights into managing immediate delivery pressures while maintaining a clear, long-term strategic vision, and the importance of clear governance
• Managing legacy and technical debt: Hear a fresh perspective on legacy technology, treating it as a starting point for evolution rather than a mistake, and how to re-engage engineers with existing systems
• Navigating budget constraints: Mo shares his approach to managing tighter budgets, emphasising efficiency, automation and maintaining a startup mindset of doing more with less
• Data and personalisation: Dive into the confidence (and concerns) around data quality in asset and wealth management, and its impact on true hyper-personalisation
• The real impact of AI: Understand why and when to use AI to drive better business outcomes and the importance of "Don't try to undo a screw with a hammer".
  
  

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  • 49 min

Change the Narrative - Episode 01

Change the Narrative

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