Lloyds Banking Group has appointed Rohit Dhawan as group director of AI and advanced analytics.

Dhawan joins from Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he served as the head of data and AI strategy across the Asia-Pacific region for almost five years.

He has also held a range of leadership roles in well-known consultancies and tech firms, including Accenture, Deloitte, and IBM, where he designed and delivered digital programmes, including setting up new data and AI functions for a large number of firms.

Reporting to Lloyds’ chief data and analytics officer Ranil Boteju, Dhawan will lead the group’s AI centre of excellence.

The centre is currently made up of experts across data science, behavioural science, ML engineering, advanced analytics and AI ethics.

Part of Dhawan’s duties will include shaping the overall AI, ML and advanced analytics strategy, focusing on the promotion and adoption of products and services with the aim of improving the group’s client offering.

Ranil Boteju, Chief Data and Analytics Officer at Lloyds Banking Group said: “Rohit will work across the business to further integrate AI outcomes into business priorities, helping us to scale AI in a consistent way and deliver against our strategy.”

During his stint at AWS, he completed a range of developments, including the integration of AI into customer and operational processes and establishing a multi-disciplinary data and AI function.

At Amazon, the data specialist also incubated AWS, or AWS’s data strategy capability, leading to the formation of a new cross-functional team, further IP development, and AI products.

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