Wide Alexey Vladimirovich

Wide Alexey Vladimirovich

Education

Alexey Shirokikh graduated from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), having received profession of the engineer-physicist. In 1998 received PhD degree in the University of Rochester (piece New York, the USA), and in 2004 – degree of MVA on finance at the same university.

Career

Work in IBM

From 1998 to 2007 Alexey Shirokikh worked in IBM company at a position of the chief IT architect in financial and bank sectors; in 2004–2005 was responsible for the development strategy Linux in developing countries (BRIC countries).

Chief information officer of Gazprombank

In 2007 Wide headed the block of information technologies of Gazprombank.

Performance on CNews FORUM on November 10, 2011

Chief information officer of Uralsib

From December, 2011 to December, 2012 Wide worked as the vice president, the chief executive officer for IT of Uralsib finance corporation where was engaged in development, maintenance and exploitation of IT.

The management of Uralsib set before Wide "a task to transform IT department to the highly effective technology command capable to accept and carry out the tasks set by the management and business".

Chief information officer of Skoltech

In November, 2013 it was appointed the Chief information officer of the Skolkovo institute of science and technologies (Skoltech) where was responsible for development and implementation of IT strategy of institute.

Creation from scratch of failsafe and scalable IT infrastructure of institute was one of key tasks. In plans of institute - creation till 2020 of 15 laboratories between which for data transmission and also their processing the created IT infrastructure will be responsible.

Chief information officer of Equity Bank Kenya

In April, 2016 Alexey Shirokikh told TAdviser about the employment in Equity Bank Kenya - the first in number clients bank of Africa.

After I left Skoltech, considered several interesting offers. However unexpectedly arrived offer from the global company on selection of IT personnel at first surprised me, but after the serious analysis forced to review my position and to accept the offer to hold a post of CIO Equity Bank, Kenya

The contract with Wide is signed for three years in this connection he moved to Nairobi, the capital of Kenya where there is a head office Equity Bank.

Tasks stand ambitious for the next 10 years - in terms of the customer base grow from 10 million to 100 million, in terms of a territorial covering from 6 countries to 15, including Kenya. The main objective which is set by the management for the current CIO - to carry out complete digital transformation of bank, the so-called program "Equity 3.0" (an example - http://allafrica.com/stories/201410311550.html)

Level of informatization of Kenyan bank, according to Wide, was rather high. However the financial institution lacks strong project managers and architects that in itself is one of key tasks for CIO for the near future, he adds.

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