Vilmos Lorincz, managing director, data and digital products, Lloyds Banking Group

Describe your career to date 

I started to work at a think tank while studying economics at university and co-founded a consultancy focusing on the future of the Internet. We helped telcos, big techs and the Hungarian government with research, data, analytics and insights on broadband infrastructure, mobile, information society, ecommerce and new business models. 

Ten years and many projects later I wanted to see more of the world so I did an MBA in London and in Shanghai and following that I worked at a large international mobile operator as an in-house product development and pricing consultant. 

I joined Lloyds at a time when all my focus topics started to become increasingly relevant in banking, so for the first few years I helped shape digital and broader company strategy to learn about the business. I saw the pace of change accelerating for both digital transformation and data technologies and I decided to broaden my data domain experience beyond analytics. 

I volunteered to lead GDPR compliance delivery and following that I worked on the transformation of the enterprise-level data services function and collaborated with the chief data office on data strategy, management and culture. When the opportunity to build a completely new business that provides data services for clients came up I jumped at it. 

I feel I’ve already had a thrilling journey from entrepreneurship to intrapreneurship and it has taken me to places across continents I would have never imagined. The most exciting thing is that for all things data we are just getting to the end of the beginning.