ING announced the appointment of Görkem Köseoğlu as chief technology officer and member of the Management Board Banking.
Görkem will take up his position “on 1 September, succeeding Ron van Kemenade, who stepped down effective 30 April 2023.”
Görkem is currently “the chief operations officer of ING Netherlands, where he leads all the client services activities, the global transformation office, delivery tribes including data management, KYC services, collections, and fraud management.”
Görkem joined ING in 2012 “as chief operations officer and chief information officer of ING Turkey where he led the transformation agenda, optimizing customer journeys, processes and legacy platforms.” In 2018, Görkem became ING Group’s chief analytics officer, “setting up the Global Analytics unit, defining the strategies for change and analytics platforms and building a global analytics community.”
Prior to ING, Görkem spent “over 10 years in the financial institutions practice and business technology practice at global consultancy firm McKinsey & Company.”
He started his career “at Lucent Technologies-Bell Labs.” Görkem has “a B.Sc in Computer Engineering from Boğaziçi University in Turkey and an MBA from TSM Business School, University of Twente, the Netherlands.”
The appointment of Görkem Köseoğlu as chief technology officer has “been approved by the European Central Bank.”
Danny Nijhuis, currently COO Wholesale Banking, “will succeed Görkem in his current role as COO Netherlands.”
As noted in the update, ING is “a global financial institution with a strong European base, offering banking services through its operating company ING Bank.”
The purpose of ING Bank is “empowering people to stay a step ahead in life and in business. ING Bank’s more than 58,000 employees off er retail and wholesale banking services to customers in over 40 countries.”
ING Group shares “are listed on the exchanges of Amsterdam (INGA NA, INGA.AS), Brussels and on the New York Stock Exchange (ADRs: ING US, ING.N).”
Sustainability is “an integral part of ING’s strategy, evidenced by ING’s leading position in sector benchmarks.”
ING’s Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating “by MSCI was affirmed ‘AA’ in September 2022.”
As of August 2022, Sustainalytics considers ING’s management of ESG material risk to be ‘strong’, and in June 2022 ING “received an ESG rating of ‘strong’ from S&P Global Ratings.”
ING Group shares are also “included in major sustainability and ESG index products of leading providers Euronext, STOXX, Morningstar and FTSE Russell.”