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Tom Pickering

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Fellow at Scotiabank
📍 Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Tom Pickering is a technology strategist and Fellow at Scotiabank, with over 20 years of experience driving digital transformation at global financial institutions like TD and Deutsche Bank. He specializes in AI, cloud adoption, and engineering culture across capital markets, risk, and finance, holding a Chartered IT Professional certification.

As a futurist, Tom focuses on the intersection of technology, work, and leadership. His interests include leveraging multimedia for leadership development, design thinking frameworks, and the broader societal impacts of artificial intelligence. He also shows a keen interest in history and human psychology.

He once built an in-house multimedia communications team from scratch to accelerate organizational change at Scotiabank.

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Experience
19 Years
Current Role
Fellow
Job Level
Mid-senior
Location
Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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FinTech Transformation
Drives enterprise-scale change in global financial institutions by implementing AI, GPU supercomputing, and serverless architecture.
Engineering Culture
Focuses on reshaping internal engineering cultures to successfully drive cloud adoption and foster genuine innovation within large, established banks.
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Career

Work history

2-2020
Fellow
Scotiabank
2-2015 - 1-2020
Head of Innovation, Data, and Architecture
Scotiabank
2-2015
FinTech & Innovation Consultant
Great Lakes Technology Consulting Inc
10-2012 - 2-2015
Head of Architecture and Data Delivery - TD Securities
TD
5-2011 - 10-2012
Head of Technical Assurance
Deutsche Bank
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Education
MSc
HEC Paris
4-2025 - 11-2028
Doctor of Business Administration (Ongoing)
MBS School of Business
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