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Alison Pain
Chief Technology Officer – EMEA at Northern Trust
About
Bio: Alison Pain joined Northern Trust in January 2020 Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for Global Technology Services in EMEA. She also holds a regulatory role as part of the Senior Managers Regime (SMF24) acting as the technology interface into the PRA and FCA. She is an Executive Vice President and member of the EMEA Executive Management Committee based in London.
As CTO she is responsible for helping develop and drive the Technology strategy across EMEA whilst ensuring Business requirements and strategy are understood and delivered. She is program director for Fortify a multi-year, circa $200MM cyber security program. She has established an Early Talent program in EMEA, with 2022 seeing the first London interns starting and the first RDP graduates starting in 2024. As SMF24 she is personally responsible to the UK regulators for technology in the UK and Europe. She runs a team to provide senior technology oversight and governance for EMEA. She is responsible for ensuring that the requirements for the region are appropriately represented globally, and that EMEA has a seat at the global table. Throughout her career Alison has a proven track record of delivery, driving a material reduction in the technology total of ownership (TCO) in all of her previous organisations. She is passionate about ensuring a premium user experience, flexing technology to allow our Businesses to be responsive to the markets & our clients whilst ensuring a laser focus on reliability, stability and security.
Alison has more than 25 years of experience in senior leadership roles with UK Financial Services organisations across both Infrastructure and Application Development teams. Before joining Northern Trust, Alison spent 4 years at Deutsche Bank where she was a Managing Director, holding multiple senior roles including Global Head of Backup & Storage and Global CIO for End-User Computing. Previously, Alison spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs where she was an EVP and Senior Engineer. She held multiple senior operational and transformation positions and was the only Global Head of a technology function based outside of the US. Prior to Goldman Sachs she worked at other financial service organisations, including Barclays and NatWest.
Alison holds a BA(Hons) from Greenwich University in Humanities and an MBA from Southbank University.
She is an active supporter of diversity and is the technology representative on the EMEA Diversity, Equity & Inclusion council. She is also a keen mentor. In 2021 she established the EMEA Women in Technology network, expanded to create a Global Women in Technology (GWIT) network in 2022. This has created a thriving global network providing opportunities both internally and externally to our technology women. She won a Northern Trust Chairman's Award in 2023 for her Diversity and Inclusion work, and won the Editors Choice Award at the TechWomen100 awards in 2024.
As CTO she is responsible for helping develop and drive the Technology strategy across EMEA whilst ensuring Business requirements and strategy are understood and delivered. She is program director for Fortify a multi-year, circa $200MM cyber security program. She has established an Early Talent program in EMEA, with 2022 seeing the first London interns starting and the first RDP graduates starting in 2024. As SMF24 she is personally responsible to the UK regulators for technology in the UK and Europe. She runs a team to provide senior technology oversight and governance for EMEA. She is responsible for ensuring that the requirements for the region are appropriately represented globally, and that EMEA has a seat at the global table. Throughout her career Alison has a proven track record of delivery, driving a material reduction in the technology total of ownership (TCO) in all of her previous organisations. She is passionate about ensuring a premium user experience, flexing technology to allow our Businesses to be responsive to the markets & our clients whilst ensuring a laser focus on reliability, stability and security.
Alison has more than 25 years of experience in senior leadership roles with UK Financial Services organisations across both Infrastructure and Application Development teams. Before joining Northern Trust, Alison spent 4 years at Deutsche Bank where she was a Managing Director, holding multiple senior roles including Global Head of Backup & Storage and Global CIO for End-User Computing. Previously, Alison spent 11 years at Goldman Sachs where she was an EVP and Senior Engineer. She held multiple senior operational and transformation positions and was the only Global Head of a technology function based outside of the US. Prior to Goldman Sachs she worked at other financial service organisations, including Barclays and NatWest.
Alison holds a BA(Hons) from Greenwich University in Humanities and an MBA from Southbank University.
She is an active supporter of diversity and is the technology representative on the EMEA Diversity, Equity & Inclusion council. She is also a keen mentor. In 2021 she established the EMEA Women in Technology network, expanded to create a Global Women in Technology (GWIT) network in 2022. This has created a thriving global network providing opportunities both internally and externally to our technology women. She won a Northern Trust Chairman's Award in 2023 for her Diversity and Inclusion work, and won the Editors Choice Award at the TechWomen100 awards in 2024.
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