ANZ announced the appointment of Gerard Florian as Group Executive Technology reporting to Chief Executive Officer Shayne Elliott. Gerard joins the company from Dimension Data where he was Chief Strategy Officer for the global Cloud Business Unit. Over the past five years, Gerard has been instrumental in the establishment of a portfolio of cloud-enabled managed services operating on a global platform. Previously Gerard was Chief Technology Officer and Chief Marketing Officer for Dimension Data’s Australian division. He is also a member of the ANZ International Technology and Digital Business Advisory Panel established in 2015. In this new role, Gerard will be a member of the Group Executive Committee with responsibility for defining ANZ’s technology strategy and building and managing the Group’s technology infrastructure. This includes the development of new technologies to support improved customer outcomes and business revenues, implementing existing technologies to further strategic goals, and the creation of systems and processes to make optimum use of current technology resources. Gerard joins ANZ on 30 January 2017 and will be based in Sydney.