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Gerard Florian
Group Executive Technology, ANZ

About Gerard Florian

Gerard has been Group Executive Technology at ANZ since January 2017. Gerard is responsible for defining ANZ’s technology strategy, and building and managing ANZ’s technology infrastructure. This includes overseeing the development of new technologies, implementing existing technologies to help the Bank reach their strategic goals and creating systems and processes to make the best use of ANZ’s resources.

Gerard has worked in technology for more than 30 years. He was previously Chief Strategy Officer for the Global Cloud Business Unit at Dimension
Data where he was instrumental in the establishment of a portfolio of cloud-enabled managed services operating on a global platform. Prior to that, Gerard was Chief Technology Officer and Chief Marketing Officer for Dimension Data’s Australian division. He has also been a member of

ANZ’s Technology and Digital Business Advisory Panel since it was established in 2015.

 

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22 Jun 2022

Technology strategy in banking: constantly evolving

Gerard Florian | Group Executive Technology, ANZ

Tech executive explains why ANZ’s technology strategy must remain closely aligned with the bank’s broader strategy.

04 Oct 2021

Techfin finding common ground on big projects

Gerard Florian | Group Executive Technology, ANZ

When technology and finance divisions cooperate on big projects, processes evolve to deliver better outcomes for staff and customers.

29 Apr 2021

Florian: solid foundations underpin the future of banks

Gerard Florian | Group Executive Technology, ANZ

A mindset shift is required to help transform the concept of “banking” from being a noun to a verb.

19 Mar 2021

Q&A: Atlassian on finding flexibility in uncertainty

Gerard Florian | Group Executive Technology, ANZ

Atlassian Work Futurist says companies must move away from measuring productivity traditionally if they want to succeed in a distributed future – and learn to drop the rituals.

23 Jun 2020

Ten years in 10 weeks, all change

Gerard Florian | Group Executive Technology, ANZ

The world has seen enormous levels of change in the last few weeks. What aspects are sticking in the minds of company executives?

01 May 2020

Working remotely: ANZ’s network affect

Gerard Florian | Group Executive Technology, ANZ

Companies around the world – including ANZ – had to rapidly adapt both physically and technologically to respond to COVID-19.

24 Jan 2020

Data can’t talk… but stories and insights can

Gerard Florian | Group Executive Technology, ANZ

New technology is transforming every industry – but old-fashioned stories get stakeholders on-board.

31 Jan 2019

PODCAST: banking technology’s on Cloud 9

Gerard Florian | Group Executive Technology, ANZ

The cloud, open banking and blockchain technologies will certainly play a role in the future of banking.

22 Jan 2019

PODCAST: AI, the cloud and the future of skills

Gerard Florian | Group Executive Technology, ANZ

As technology continues to advance, organisations must ensure their environments and employees are able to keep up.

06 Sep 2018

ANZ, Atlassian & lessons from a meteoric rise

Gerard Florian | Group Executive Technology, ANZ

ANZ head of technology wants new deal with Atlassian to be a much-deeper relationship than vendor-client.