Benjamin Schuster

Senior Vice President, Engineering & Technology at First Hawaiian Bank

Benjamin Schuster's work experience includes:

- Senior Vice President, Engineering & Technology at First Hawaiian Bank, where they led the complete technology transformation of digital and engineering platforms throughout the organization.

- Vice President - Engineering & DevOps at First Hawaiian Bank.

- Assistant Vice President, Engineering, Digital Banking Division at First Hawaiian Bank, where they started the engineering function and led a team to build the enterprise's solution to the SBA's Paycheck Protection Program, achieving 80% more funded loan volume than competitors in Hawaii.

- Founder of Hotels by Points, a premier tool and service for hotel points redemption and up-to-date hotel information.

- Co-Founder of Sheep, an app and social network for restaurant reviews and recommendations.

- Senior Software Engineer at Bringhub, where they built an API to identify products across publisher sites and utilized Mithril.

- Software Engineer at American Express, leading technical integration of a partnership with Zynga and developing an in-game dashboard across Zynga games.

- Worked at VIRURL, Inc.

Benjamin Schuster obtained a Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree in Entrepreneurship, Finance, and Economics from the University of Miami, where they studied from 2007 to 2011.

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  • Senior Vice President, Engineering & Technology

    December, 2023 - present

  • Vice President - Engineering & Devops

    June, 2020

  • Assistant Vice President, Engineering, Digital Banking Division

    May, 2019

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