In this #LeadershipDeepDive episode Filipe Teixeira, CIO of illimity, talks with Hendrik Deckers about how in November 2018 he entered an empty office to start a digital bank of the future and he completed the task in less than one year. Filipe talks about his role as CIO - the dream of many CIOs – starting in a greenfield scenario and challenges it brought to him and his team:

✅ Having all the systems operational within extremely limited time
✅ Designing architecture from scratch to be able to build business model
✅ Having the regulators approve the first Cloud native bank in Italy
✅ Signing three strategic partnerships
✅ Reaching breakeven in one year and EUR 30 million of revenue in 2020

Every year CIONET nominates top CxOs as finalists of the European Digital Leader of the Year. Filipe represents Italy in the Finance category. Join us on the special edition of #CIONEXT on September 15 where we will feature all the finalists of the Public sector & Non-profit and Finance categories and announce winners.

Table of contents:

01:16 | Introduction and Filipe Teixeira’s background

04:51 | About illimity

07:32 | illimity – the beginning

18:13 | Long term plan for illimity

24:49 | What makes illimity special?

26:51 | Sourcing talents

28:48 | Work organization

32:04 | Role of CIO

34:38 | Filipe’s leadership style

39:34 | Ways to relax & mentors in Filipe’s life

48:27 | MBTI: the Advocate

54:41 | Best thing that has ever happened to Filipe

56:35 | The most brilliant mistake

59:42 | Advice for people starting out