Thirty years leading pan-European financial services, fintech and technology businesses — now advising ExCo teams and Boards on agile transformation, cloud-native re-platforming and the governed adoption of AI at scale.
GE Capital·First Data Corp·Assurant Europe·CIT Bank Europe·Amigo Holdings·Interbridge Mortgages·Vanquis Banking Group·Market Financial Solutions·DF Capital Bank·Interbridge Group·Wessex Community Bank·Hampshire Community Bank·Hapie AI
Boards and Leadership Teams are under growing pressure from owners, shareholders, employees, customers and the media to explain how AI will change the direction of their organisation, and when that change will show up in returns, jobs and market position. That pressure is too often offloaded onto the CIO or CTO alone. But Gen AI represents a generational paradigm shift across the whole business, so the strategy, the communication and the resourcing it needs have to be owned from the top down — by the Chair, the Board, the NEDs and the C-suite together. Not every Board is full of AI experts, and mapping a credible route from where you are to where you need to be, under that level of scrutiny, is daunting.
I typically get engaged when leadership senses that technical debt or poor technology adoption, particularly around Gen AI, is starting to constrain growth. I work alongside your existing Senior Leadership and Board to define the goals of change, demonstrate agile ways to implement the strategy, and work through the objection handling and conflict resolution that inevitably follows while helping your senior IT executives design and architect the technology stack the strategy needs. Alongside the small number of NED and advisory positions I hold, I take on a limited number of hands-on engagements at exactly that inflection point.
— Andy Smith, Founder, LUXIT
LUXIT works with organisations at three points of need — often all three inside the same programme.
Independent, board-level oversight for organisations navigating business or technology transformation, M&A integration or regulatory change — able to advise on strategy and challenge delivery with equal credibility.
Practical guidance on adopting agentic AI and GenAI at enterprise scale — grounded in the view that robust data foundations, focused use cases and engaged employees are the prerequisite for monetising AI.
Interim and fractional CIO, CTO or COO leadership for start-up, scale-up and established financial services businesses undertaking cloud-native technology transformation.
Hands-on executive leadership of technology and operations, embedded at pace inside your organisation.
Independent director and advisory board roles providing technology governance and investment challenge.
Agentic AI and GenAI strategy, data readiness assessment, employee engagement approaches and governance frameworks for scaling AI safely.
Enterprise-wide scaled agile (SAFe®) delivery leadership for complex, multi-year transformation programmes — now extending into Scaled Agile's newly unveiled AI-Native SAFe®.
Across three consecutive engagements, Andy has designed, architected and delivered a full front-to-back technology stack for regulated lending businesses — each cloud-native, SaaS-based, and delivered on time and on original budget. An uncommon record for programmes of this scope.
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