A Citi MD migrated to become JPMorgan's data head in London
Working in Citi's data team can't be an easy ride. The bank has tens of thousands of regulatory reports to sift through, and hundreds of thousands of lines of data. Now, one of the top technologists in its London data team has taken an executive gig at another US bank.
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Suman D'Souza has joined JPMorgan as its EMEA chief data officer. He sits in the data and analytics team, and reports to Teresa Heitsenrether, JPMorgan's global chief data and analytics officer. He spent four years as an MD at Citi, serving as its chief data officer in its risk team, where he said he was "accountable for the adoption of transformative data capabilities across the division."
Before Citi, D'Souza spent a brief eight months as a managing principal at tech consultancy EPAM, and a much less brief 26 years at Credit Suisse. In his time at the Swiss bank, D'Souza said he implemented its SWIFT messaging platform and helped create its big data strategy within risk. Credit Suisse faced its own share of risk, when it was still around, but D'Souza left three years before its untimely demise.
JPMorgan may seem an easier gig, but it could get a lot harder as the bank continues to adopt AI. The bank has over 100 generative AI tools on the way, and its AI platform is in use by 200,000 employees, all of which requires (and creates) large swathes of data. In recent years senior figures like global AI head Apoorv Saxena, have come and gone from the AI team, which was 2,000 people strong a year ago, but has since looked like it's struggling to hire. The hard times may not be over for D'Souza yet.
JPMorgan declined to comment.
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