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From September 2016 Ewan will jointly head Nordea’s new Group Digital unit to keep an overview of the entire digital project portfolio in all parts of the bank - including core banking systems replacement and simplification initiatives. The unit will align all digital projects with the Group’s strategy, and utilize possible synergies between different projects to improve efficiency.
Prior to this, Ewan was the Transformation Lead or Senior Programme Director, Digital at the Royal Bank of Scotland, where he was responsible for supervising the delivery of the bank's digital channels and a wide variety of digital transformation programs.
Before this, Ewan was Group Head of Digital Capabilities at Nationwide Building Society. Other digital roles have included Ewan founding and editing the Mobile Industry Review and heading up innovation for both Reed Exhibitions and First Data and founding successful dot.com start-ups – Neo One and Live4now.com.