Kang Yew Jin is a seasoned CIO/ CTO with end 2 end experiences of Run the Bank, Change the Bank, Consulting, planning, managing, executing, running & operating IT in financial services across banking & insurance.
His experience spans:
- Digital Transformation of legacy print and media business
- Hands on Run the Bank & Change the Bank experience as a CIO for Hong Leong Bank, Malaysia's 4th largest banking group
- Hands on “running of the bank” experience of running day to day regional IT operations with OCBC Bank for Great Eastern Life for 5 countries with over 900 servers & 250 databases
- Consulting Experiences, Systems Implementation, Execution & Project Management, from various banking projects done with IBM & Accenture
- Merger Integration experience with the merger of OCBC & Keppel Tat Lee Bank
- Core Banking Replacements from MBf Finance, AmBank & OCBC & Core Insurance Replacements for MetLife, Aetna/ ING, Takaful Nasional/ Etiqa
- Basel II experience from Maybank
- Architecture experience from his days as a Chief Architect for AmBank & from his consulting days with IBM & Accenture
Kang Yew Jin is a certified TOGAF 9 practitioner (https://www.opengroup.org/togaf9/cert/protected/certuploads/44553.pdf) and a certified Project Management Professional (PMI ID Number: 1748350).
An alumni of Malacca High School, Yew Jin received his education at the University of New South Wales, graduating with Honours Class 1 from the School of Computer Science and Engineering. Yew Jin spent his final year thesis with the University's VLSI and Systems Technology Laboratory (VaST)
Kang Yew Jin has held prominent roles in Accenture, MetLife, IBM, AmBank, OCBC (during when, OCBC was awarded the World's Strongest Bank rating by Bloomberg) & Hong Leong Bank. He has worked in Kuala Lumpur, Singapore with stints in Paris, Melbourne, Sydney, Mexico, Seoul, Hong Kong & New York.
In 2015, he was conferred PIKOM (The National IT Association of Malaysia) 2015 CIO of the Year.
In 2019 and 2020, he was awarded the Top 50 CIOs in ASEAN by IDG.