ING today announced the appointment of Görkem Köseoğlu as chief technology officer and member of the Management Board Banking. Görkem will take up his position on 1 September, succeeding Ron van Kemenade, who stepped down effective 30 April 2023.
Görkem is currently the chief operations officer of ING Netherlands, where he leads all the client services activities, the global transformation office, delivery tribes including data management, KYC services, collections, and fraud management.
Görkem joined ING in 2012 as chief operations officer and chief information officer of ING Turkey where he led the transformation agenda, optimizing customer journeys, processes and legacy platforms. In 2018, Görkem became ING Group’s chief analytics officer, setting up the Global Analytics unit, defining the strategies for change and analytics platforms and building a global analytics community.
Prior to ING, Görkem spent over 10 years in the financial institutions practice and business technology practice at global consultancy firm McKinsey & Company. He started his career at Lucent Technologies-Bell Labs. Görkem has a B.Sc in Computer Engineering from Boğaziçi University in Turkey and an MBA from TSM Business School, University of Twente, the Netherlands.
The appointment of Görkem Köseoğlu as chief technology officer has been approved by the European Central Bank.
Danny Nijhuis, currently COO Wholesale Banking, will succeed Görkem in his current role as COO Netherlands.