2024 has witnessed major leadership shifts at financial institutions globally, including new chairs, global banking CEOs, and key departures and retirements.Here, FinTech Futures highlights five of the top movers and shakers stories of 2024, featuring HSBC, Temenos, Standard Chartered and more.Ozone API appoints former Virgin Money CEO Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia as new board chairDame Jayne-Anne Gadhia named chair of the board at Ozone APIIn February, UK-based open banking tech provider Ozone API appointed Dame Jayne-Anne Gadhia as its new board chair.Gadhia has extensive leadership experience gained from some of the UK’s biggest financial institutions. For over 10 years she was the CEO of Virgin Money, during which time she led the company’s acquisition and successful integration of Northern Rock and the launch of Virgin Money’s current account offering.Huw Davies, Ozone API’s co-founder and co-CEO, states Gadhia’s “unparalleled expertise and vision will offer huge benefit to Ozone API at this pivotal point in our journey”, claiming the fintech is now ideally positioned to expedite its planned expansion.Read more hereTemenos concludes CEO search with appointment of Jean-Pierre BrulardCore banking software heavyweight Temenos concluded its extended search for a new CEO in April with the appointment of Jean-Pierre Brulard.Brulard moved from VMware, a US-based cloud computing and virtualisation technology company, where he is credited with migrating the business model to a subscription-based, Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model.He also drove annual recurring revenue (ARR) and revenue growth, which was a “critical factor in his appointment” as CEO, according to Temenos’ non-executive chairman, Thibault de Tersant.Read more hereJP Morgan Payments head Takis Georgakopoulos to step down after 17 years at the bankTakis Georgakopoulos departs JP Morgan Payments (Image: LinkedIn)In June, Takis Georgakopoulos announced that he was stepping down from his role as global head of JP Morgan Payments, a position he had held for the past seven years, stating he had “decided to pursue a very exciting opportunity outside the firm”.First announced by Reuters, an internal memo revealed that Georgakopoulos, who first joined JP Morgan back in 2007 and also sat on the organisation’s operating committee, was set to leave the business.Reflecting on the outgoing executive’s tenure, Jennifer Piepszak and Troy Rohrbaugh, co-heads of JP Morgan’s Commercial and Investment Bank (CIB), noted in the memo that Georgakopoulos has played a key role in helping JP Morgan Payments “become one of the firm’s biggest growth engines, increasing revenue and market share in a highly competitive environment”.In response to Georgakopoulos relinquishing his position, Umar Farooq and Max Neukirchen have been appointed as co-heads of global payments.Read more hereHSBC concludes search for new Group CEO with Georges Elhedery appointmentHSBC concluded its search for
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