Perpetual Guardian has appointed Willem van der Steen as its new Head of IT, replacing Lincoln Watson, who has moved into a newly-created role as general manager of Kōwhiri, Perpetual Guardian’s digital branch.
Mr van der Steen will be responsible for the development and maintenance of Perpetual Guardian’s IT strategy and leveraging new technology to increase the agility, speed and productivity of its team. He is a digital executive with more than 20 years of experience and has led and built high-performance teams in New Zealand and overseas, including the United Kingdom, the Netherlands and Luxembourg.
He most recently worked as Group Manager at Callaghan Innovation, where he led the governance and strategy of the innovation and digital capability building programmes. Prior to that, Mr van der Steen served as Business Manager Mobile ICT at Spark Digital.
He has a master’s degree in Computer Science from the Delft University of Technology near The Hague in the Netherlands, where he specialised in knowledge-based systems and artificial intelligence.
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Perpetual Guardian appoints new head of IT
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