Highly accomplished leader with focus on combining business acumen, data-driven and industry insights, client centric experience, product design and development, data, digital, technology and innovation to create and deliver innovative solutions to meet customer needs and drive business results. Have spearheaded numerous transformative initiatives, necessitating cultural changes. 20+ years of experience spanning 3 industries.

At Citi, Japan is currently Chief Data Officer with accountability for Citi’s Data, driving data quality and governance, accuracy, completeness, usage, privacy and analytics. Previously he held roles at Citi as Global CIO and Digital Head for Global Wealth across Affluent, Core HNW, HNW and UHNW client segments. In addition he has previously held roles at Citi as CIO for APAC and EMEA across 17 countries, Global Head of Digital Platforms and CIO for Fintech.

While at JPMorgan Chase, Japan was responsible for leading digital and building best in class digital bank for Business and Commercial Banking Client segments including Merchant Services and Business & Commercial Cards. In addition he was accountable for and drove delivery of next gen FX & international remittance platform for all retail, business and Commercial customers, payment P&L for Commercial and build out of business services ecosystem for clients.

Before joining JPMorgan Chase, Japan was at Barclays responsible for driving the digital transformation, commercialization and monetization of Digital Platforms, Emerging Payments and Remittance, Digital Wealth Management, Investment Banking Mobile Platform and Open Dev Ecosystem across Personal and Corporate Banking, Barclaycard, ABSA and Investment Banking to meet the opportunities and challenges that lie ahead for customers and financial industry.

Prior to Barclays, Japan was leading FiOS TV and Video Mobile offering at Verizon, where he was responsible for FiOS TV Quantum that helped Verizon save $500M+ in operating margins over 5 years. Japan was also responsible for generating a $300M+ P&L impact through creation of various products and services for FiOS TV platform. He helped transform Verizon by creating a $12B business line for the wireline business.

Japan has filed for 35 patents out of which 25 have been granted.