Atom Bank has restructured its senior technology team with nine inner promotions.
The lender says the adjustments will assist it to hurry up product launches and enhance supply.
Ges Richmond has been promoted to move of lending supply, having been at Atom for 5 years.
Orla Codyre takes up a newly-created place as head of financial savings supply, after two years on the financial institution.
Kath Langlands, who has additionally been on the lender for 2 years, has been promoted to move of platform and enterprise supply, which is one other newly-created perform.
Rob Smith has been appointed head of engineering having spent 4 years at Atom.
Rob Butcher takes up the function of head of structure after three years as an enterprise architect.
Faizah Rafique has been appointed head of enterprise evaluation, having been with the enterprise for six years.
James Kerruish has been appointed chief info safety officer and head of service.
Kerruish, who has labored for Atom for eight years, can be chargeable for overseeing cyber safety, safely implementing adjustments, coping with any incidents and managing the service desk that gives technical assist to all staff.
Leanne Judge takes up the newly-created place of chief of staff after a decade working for the lender.
Dr Russell Collingham will oversee the newly-formed synthetic intelligence and information science team.
Its focus is on creating and deploying AI across the financial institution, exploring its potential to enhance decision-making, pace up evaluation and supply direct assist to prospects.
Dr Collingham has been at Atom for over three years and was beforehand lead enterprise architect.
He has a PhD in synthetic intelligence from the University of Durham, the place he went on to change into a lecturer earlier than becoming a member of Atom.
Atom chief technology officer Andy Sturrock says: “I’m delighted to have such a robust and succesful management team in place.
“Their collective experience can be important as we proceed to extend our velocity and spend money on our technology stack to higher assist the enterprise. I’m assured that with this new construction, we’re in a incredible place to realize our bold objectives.
“Our mission at Atom Bank has all the time been to construct a financial institution that may problem the established order, and an enormous a part of that’s nurturing the unimaginable expertise we’ve got inside our groups.
“It’s extremely rewarding to see so many skilled colleagues, who’ve been with us for a few years, develop and step into new management roles by way of inner promotions.”
