TORONTO,
May 3, 2022 /CNW/ -
Scotiabank's Stella Yeung, Senior
Vice President & Global Head of Engineering, Global Banking
& Markets, and Data & Analytics and Jennifer Frook, Vice President, Enterprise
Crisis and Business Continuity Management have been recognized
in the Report on Business Best Executive Awards in the
categories of Technology & Operations.
"Stella's thought leadership has been instrumental in delivering
impactful projects that have strengthened our technology platforms
to better serve our clients," said Brian Porter, President and
CEO, Scotiabank. "Jennifer's role in leading crisis management and
response teams ensured that the critical needs of our customers and
employees were met across our global footprint. On behalf of all
Scotiabankers, sincere congratulations to Stella and Jennifer on
their very well-deserved recognition."
The annual Report on Business Best Executive Awards, established
in 2020, celebrates the noteworthy accomplishments of 50 non-CEO
executive leaders who have made an impact in five functional job
categories: Finance, Human Resources, Operations, Sales and
Marketing, and Technology.
Stella Yeung won in the
Technology Category for leading key global teams in the delivery of
impactful projects that leverage data and analytics to better serve
our clients, boost internal process efficiencies while
strengthening the Bank's risk and regulatory compliance. With a
proven track record of driving industry-leading initiatives that
leverage the Cloud's on-demand elasticity, her team is focused on
engineering Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning, and
delivered meaningful research on Quantum Computing capabilities to
enable faster, more advanced, and complex market models to provide
a superior client experience. Additionally, Stella's work has been
recognized through Scotiabank's award-winning global data &
analytics platform – an enterprise-wide AI platform that
modernizes the entire technology stack to enable advanced analytics
tools and deployments.
Jennifer Frook won in the
Operations category for her instrumental role in leading the Bank's
response teams through the global pandemic, providing strategic
direction, leadership and oversight for crisis management. She also
played a key role in industry discussions related to pandemic
response. Jennifer's resiliency, strong guidance, thoughtful
partnership, and ability to lead and synchronize teams across the
enterprise was essential and contributed to Scotiabank being
recognized by Global Finance magazine for displaying Outstanding
Crisis Leadership. Jennifer leads by example. She is committed to
championing an inclusive culture, fostering a winning team, and
consistently going above and beyond for her stakeholders and the
Bank as a whole.
About Scotiabank
Scotiabank is a leading bank in the Americas. Guided by our
purpose: "for every future", we help our customers, their families
and their communities achieve success through a broad range of
advice, products, and services, including personal and commercial
banking, wealth management and private banking, corporate and
investment banking, and capital markets. With a team of
approximately 90,000 employees and assets of
approximately $1.2 trillion (as of January 31,
2022), Scotiabank trades on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: BNS)
and New York Stock Exchange (NYSE: BNS). For more information,
please visit http://www.scotiabank.com and follow us on
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SOURCE Scotiabank