Filipe Teixeira

Driven by a love of economics and finance, Filipe started his career working on IT projects at major international banking groups. For example, he worked for the Santander Group in Lisbon and Madrid on IT projects for the Risk area until 2011. In 2012, he joined the Italian technology firm Reply in London, heading up various digital transformation projects for groups such as Deutschbank, BNP Paribas and UniCredit, gaining further international experience in the UK, France, Germany, Italy and the Benelux nations. In 2014, he joined the UniCredit Group as the Head of IT Financial Risk, a pathway that would later lead him to head up Digital Core Banking Transformation and the Commercial Banking Software Factory.

In 2018, he came on board at illimity as the Chief Information Officer to help create a new paradigm bank driven by technological innovation. Filipe is married to Leila and likes to divide his free time between sport, economics, technology and history.