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NAB Director Geraldine McBride Defines New Banking Technology Future
- Published March 19, 2015 3:37PM UTC
- Publisher Wholesale Investor
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Source: By James Eyers – Australian Financial Review, 15 March 2015
NAB director and digital guru Geraldine McBride is steering the bank through the waves of technological disruption washing over the sector and leading it into “a new, personalised, experienced-based economy”.
National Australia Bank director Geraldine McBride is the poster child for a new breed of board member: she’s a technology-savvy futurist and digital strategist.
Her role in NAB’s historically staid boardroom is to identify the technological trends taking over its customers’ lives. She is steering the bank through the waves of technological disruption washing over the sector, leading it into “a new, personalised, experienced-based economy,” as she describes it.
Read the full story here on the AFR website.
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