Maxim Afanasyev

Financial Services Industry Head, Asia Pacific and Japan at Google

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Maxim is a member of Global Strategic Industries Team at Google Cloud and is responsible for Financial Services Industry in Asia Pacific and Japan. In his role, Maxim co-owns Google Cloud strategy and acts as a bridge between Google engineering innovations and real world. Maxim also advises C-levels of major companies in JAPAC on industry trends, transformations and emerging technologies powered by Applied AI.

Before joining Google Cloud, Maxim has been leading large global AI engineering and transformation teams of 200+ people and US$100mn budgets to build and deploy innovative AI solutions, deliver AI adoption strategies, design human-AI interactions and unlock business value with new technologies across industries, both as an employee and as a consultant. Most recently as Managing Director in charge of AI products and transformation across 50+ markets at Standard Chartered Bank. Before relocating to Singapore, Maxim worked at McKinsey and Company where he delivered data strategies and AI use cases for clients in Europe and at Royal Bank of Scotland in London, UK as exotic derivatives trader.

Maxim holds PhD in Operations, Information and Technology from Stanford Graduate School of Business. Started career in AI Research Lab focused on neural networks and evolutionary algorithms