Greg K.

• Independent practice for operating model, platform, and AI-native transformation serving Canadian financial services with legacy architecture.
• Thesis: winners in the AI era have operating models designed to absorb and harness AI, not just the best tools.
• Built on 20+ years as an accountable executive through API-native, product model, and AI-native organizational inflection points.
• Available for fractional and interim platform/AI-transformation leadership and advisory engagements.
• Current conversations span Canadian financial services and fintech.

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• Accountable for the Platform-as-a-Product delivery organization supporting all product lines deploying to the public cloud, a 50+ person engineering group spanning platform architecture and delivery.
• Unified platform engineering and platform delivery under a single leadership mandate, focusing the full organization on shared platform outcomes.
• Role spanned technology strategy, operating model design, and large-scale engineering delivery in a complex, regulated financial infrastructure environment.

• Interim secondment to stabilize a CIAM work stream critical to Canada's Real-Time Rail program at risk of delaying integrated testing.
• Expanded a core team of security architects and engineers with program management, QA, and client relationship capacity, roughly doubling the team.
• Reframed the Payments Canada relationship from order-taker to partner, carved a deliverable scope, and brought the work stream from red to green in under two quarters.

• Accountable for delivering a self-service cloud platform that gave Interac's product lines access to public cloud infrastructure.
• Mandate was as much organizational as technical: transforming a pooled engineering group into a durable product team and establishing the product model.
• Structured the organization into squads aligned to clear value streams, treating internal product lines as customers and building required skills and practices.

• Accountable for enterprise architecture across solution, security, infrastructure, and more during Interac's move from project to product.
• Redesigned the architecture delivery model from pooled specialists to forward-deployed generalists backed by specialist guilds.
• Led significant shifts in practice, ways of working, and mindset required by a transformation of that scope.
• Advised at the CTO table on socio-organizational alignment of the Technology & Operations organization to the product model.

• Established Interac's first formal enterprise architecture practice with governance, decision-making structures, and a technology roadmap.
• Built and staffed a solutions architecture capability, embedding architects into projects and triaging decisions for major initiatives.
• Laid structural and governance foundations that the practice and broader technology organization would build on in following years.

Transmit Security gives businesses the modern tools they need to build secure, trusted and end-to-end digital identity journeys to innovate and grow.

• Architecture and presales consulting role focused on closing new business across Canadian and New England territories.
• Served as technical and strategic lead in complex enterprise sales for CIAM and fraud prevention, advising organizations serving millions of customers.
• Combined technical credibility with commercial accountability, carrying ARR targets and owning the solution narrative end-to-end.

At CIBC, we are in business to help our clients, employees and shareholders achieve what is important to them.

• Led enterprise and solutions architecture for CIBC's platform delivery organization exposing core banking services as APIs to lines of business.
• Managed a team of 10 architects embedded within the platform with dotted-line accountability to the VP of that client group.
• Drove architectural strategy, roadmapping, and standards, including modernization from WS-* web services to Web APIs and event-driven services.

As a top 10 North American bank, TD aims to be anchored in our proven business model, and to give our customers, communities and colleagues the confidence to thrive in a changing world.

• Set enterprise strategy, direction, and roadmap for TD's adoption of Web APIs and microservices across all business units.
• Established and governed API and microservices standards, and represented TD in consortia shaping Canada’s open banking direction.
• Prototyped a platform to engage external resources in bank software delivery while maintaining rigorous control over bank data assets.

CA Technologies provided enterprise software and solutions.

• Advised enterprise clients, largely in financial services, on API strategy, business models, and integration architecture.
• Published and presented widely on the business case for APIs to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• Advised enterprise clients on integration architecture and API-driven solutions for complex environments.
• Delivered solution architecture and consulting engagements across financial services and large enterprises.

• Designed and implemented enterprise integration solutions using IBM integration platforms and best practices.

• Specialized in IBM DataPower appliance administration, integration, and gateway configuration to support secure service delivery.

We are NTT. A Global Technology and Business Solutions Provider

• Delivered principal systems architecture and consulting for enterprise clients across integration, scalability, and solution design.
• Advised on end-to-end system designs that balanced business requirements with technical constraints.

Manulife is a leading international financial services provider that helps people make their decisions easier and lives better.

• Consulted to Manulife's Distribution Architecture Office on solution and integration design for distribution channels.
• Advised on architecture best practices to support distribution and channel modernization efforts.

• Served as a senior architect delivering architecture guidance and design across CIBC modernization initiatives.
• Embedded with delivery teams to shape API and platform standards and ensure architectural integrity.

• Managed development teams delivering enterprise banking applications and integrations.
• Coordinated delivery, backlog prioritization, and quality assurance for application releases.

• Developed applications and integrations for CIBC's banking platforms, supporting production and development lifecycles.