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Maarten Ectors — executive experience with technical depth.

Executive roles in regulated financial services and in open-source cloud and IoT platforms, grounded in hands-on technology development. That combination — knowing what boards need and knowing how systems are actually built — is what PGI brings to AI leadership and delivery.

Sections

Past executive roles

Where the experience was earned.

Former executive role · Executive & financial-services credibility

Legal & General

  • Chief Innovation Officer
  • Previously Chief Digital Officer, General Insurance

Executive leadership of innovation and digital in a large, regulated financial services group — bringing new technology into an environment where controls, customers and capital all matter. As Chief Digital Officer for General Insurance, Maarten launched an AI chat bot for claims that won the award for best claims platform of 2018.

This is where PGI’s board-level and regulated-industry perspective comes from: turning technology ideas into accountable, customer-facing outcomes inside a major financial services group.

Read the WSJ profile

Former executive role · Technology credibility

Canonical / Ubuntu

  • VP IoT
  • Cloud Strategy Director

Canonical is the company behind Ubuntu, the open-source operating system used across cloud infrastructure, servers and connected devices. Leadership roles there span open source, cloud platforms, IoT and enterprise technology.

Read Maarten’s articles on Canonical

Former role · Technology development

Nokia Networks

  • Innovation and offshoring experience

Experience in innovation, cloud and technology development, including offshoring — building and running technology work across distributed teams.

Current collaborations & partnerships

Experience working across enterprise AI ecosystems.

Past roles, current collaborations and technology partnerships are different things. They are labelled as such here.

Current collaboration

3Point

Through work with 3Point, Maarten contributes to AI Realisation Workshops and complex AI solution engagements for Cisco customers.

Technology partnership

Greentic

PGI is a Greentic partner, helping organisations explore and implement digital workers that connect business processes, enterprise systems and human approvals.

Explore Greentic

Published coverage & technical writing

Coverage you can read for yourself.

Independent profiles, channel-published enterprise writing and technical articles — with their publication context stated plainly. The 2019 blockchain article is included as evidence of delivering emerging technology within financial services; blockchain consulting is not a PGI service.

Put this experience to work on your AI priorities.

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