Simon Ward

Simon Ward

Global Core Banking & Payments ISV Practice Leader

IBM, United Kingdom

• Simon is a client focused leader with a track record of advising on and leading major transformation programmes in financial services. He excels in building collaborative, high performing teams.
• He has 40 years of experience in the Financial Services industry with a focus on digital transformation, cloud, retail banking, insurance and payments.
• Simon has shaped and/or led signature engagements on payments transformation, cloud application migration, virtual assistants and leading the delivery of business transformation programmes in general insurance claims and pensions fund management.
• He has key skills in Delivery, Practice building and leadership, Systems Integration, third party relationship management and business management.

Core Banking & Payments Independent Software Vendor (ISV) engagements area of expertise 
• Set-up and growth of the IBM Consulting practice for Core Banking & Payments ISVs
• Established global partnerships with Finacle, Temenos, Thought Machine, Finastra, FIS, Zafin, Suntec, Intellect Design