Standard Life Names Wendy Redshaw as First Digital and Technology Chief

Standard Life is elevating digital and technology leadership to the group level as financial-services companies invest in online distribution, data capabilities and modernised systems. Creating the chief digital and technology officer role should bring technology spending and product development under clearer oversight, while supporting efforts to improve customer experience and accelerate fintech innovation.

Standard Life appointed Wendy Redshaw as its first group chief digital and technology officer, although the available announcement did not specify her starting date. Redshaw joins after six years as group chief digital information officer for retail banking at NatWest. She will lead Standard Life’s digital and technology agenda, with a mandate to speed up innovation and advance the group’s development in digital finance and financial technology.