Christopher Thorpe Email & Phone Number

Cambridge, MA, US

Christopher has over 25 years of experience in the financial services sector leading transformations in various executive positions at many of Pega’s largest banking customers. He has held SVP and MD level roles at Bank of America and J.P. Morgan Chase and more recently returned to his technical roots supporting several software startups.

Houston, Texas, US

Successful digital transformations require digital talent and solutions. I’ve always had a passion for solving business problems and building high performance teams, which is why I am very excited about applying my skills as a CTO to TalentPath through this unique opportunity to further transform our talent into world class technologists.

Eindhoven, Netherlands, NL

Headquartered in Eindhoven, the Netherlands, DLL is a wholly owned subsidiary of Rabobank Group. DLL is the world's leading vendor finance partner for equipment and technology assets serving >30 countries with a $35+ billion managed asset portfolio.CTO & Member of North Americaís Executive Leadership Team (equivalent to BoD)Recruited to establish new.

Consulting Services specializing in planning, operational, and location strategy. I work with CIO/Senior Technology Executives in analyzing their workforce and business priorities to help formulate winning IT strategies that attract talent and are more agile and cost effective. Leveraging our passion for emerging technologies, we have already helped.

Charlotte, NC, US

• Responsible for development, support and infrastructure for retail bank’s internal applications with over 10,000 end users and 100+ applications across customer service and fraud teams supporting the mobile, online.
• Collaborated with business to develop new IT strategy migrating patchwork of legacy applications towards single customer centric real-time multi product architecture reducing development times by 5x, pioneered new big.
• Leveraging extensive business process skills helped consolidated thousands of frontline agents onto the largest Pega based processing engine taking key customer events from weeks to minutes and business benefits.
• Primary architect of retail banks’ workforce strategy for CIO impacting over 16,000 associates globally resulting in productivity saves exceeding $60MM.
• As a Trusted Advisor to business introduced new control and governance processes dramatically reducing audit issues spanning both IT and operations
• Primary negotiator in eliminating duplicate licenses with key software vendor saving $10MM replacing with bank wide universal agreement.

Charlotte, NC, US

• Mid West regional head accountable for Wall street’s largest derivative trading applications. Supporting Global Swaps and Credit Derivative platforms with 300 resources, based in Chicago, New York, London and India..
• Responsible for the joint Bank of America and Merrill Lynch application portfolio during the financial crisis retiring “sacred” applications exceeding all project and budget expectations saving over $20MM.
• Implemented new cross locational governance and SDLC model building trust between IT and business owners allowing for productively gains in cheaper locations and reducing software defects and resource costs by 50%.

New York, NY, US

• Pioneered and ran green field Houston based development center build out. This location supported all investment banking technology groups outside of New York City. Delivered applications across all key investment.
• Established groundbreaking hiring processes attracting top talent growing from 0 to 700 resources in 3 years with minimal attrition, saving 40% in resource costs.
• Leveraging cross locational SDLC “one team” best practices from Houston quickly integrated Chicago 200-person location from BankOne merger minimizing resource layoffs. Developed Outsourcing India resource strategy.

New York, NY, US

Technologist – Global Equities and Fixed Income Research Responsible for Global Application Development Team (based in NY, London, Glasgow, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Sydney and San Francisco).Drove the overall development strategy working with the research business to identify new research products and applications.Responsible for $30MM budget and staff of 100.

New York, NY, US

Systems Analyst and Project LeaderTeam Leader for Front Office Swaps Derivatives System that calculates and monitors Morgan’s credit exposure for line management and sensitivity analysis by traders.

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