Patrick Molineux, Chief Strategy Officer, Financial Services, CSC
Patrick Molineux
Chief Strategy Officer, Financial Services
CSC
An associate of CSC’s Leading Edge Forum (LEF), Patrick drove the research for this report. He shaped the core themes, then gathered and assessed information from a team of CSC experts and select financial services and technology firms.
His background includes 25 years of experience in financial services, the past 15 with CSC in various project management, consulting, sales and marketing roles. His previous work focused specifically on life insurance. In his current capacity as chief strategy officer for Financial Services, he works with colleagues and clients to understand the broad scope of the financial services sector and to zero in on key focal areas.
Patrick embarked on this report to bring mental order to the vastness of where technology can take financial services in the future. The finished report looks distinctly different than his initial ideas, something he views as a desirable consequence of collaborating with the report’s many contributors.
The most important part of the journey for Patrick was microfinance: “I had been conscious of microfinance but unconscious of its power to transform lives,” he states. “Microfinance takes technology from being merely useful to being, in some cases, life changing and saving. That is a lesson I needed to learn.”
Patrick has worked hard to increase his technical illiteracy, believing that any 21st century technology that requires technical expertise to use is not advanced enough to be really useful or not simple enough to operate beyond a niche.
Patrick lives near Guildford in Surrey, England, and counts as his hobbies gardening, reading, cooking, community affairs (he is a local “councillor” elected to represent his community) and medieval history (specifically, English history of the 1060s to 1090s). Contact Patrick.