Damir Bogdan is an advisor for enterprises, startups and universities in the areas of innovation, digital strategy, and FinTech, who has collaborated with EDG on projects for several years. Damir leads compelling strategy workshops for C-level executives and is a highly respected keynote-speaker on digitalization, disruption and startups. Damir is also an Executive in Residence and Ambassador for Europe for Plug and Play Tech Center, a major accelerator in Silicon Valley and one of EDG’s collaboration partners.

Damir is also a Senior Advisor at the Institute of Information Management at the University of St. Gallen and member of the Advisory Board for Information Management for four universities, as well as a member of several IT committees. He is a co-lead of BlockchainX, an initiative for building cross-industry blockchain prototypes, co-located at ETH ZH (Swiss Technical University, Zurich) and the University of St. Gallen.

Damir was the CIO and Head of Operations for eight years at Raiffeisen, Switzerland’s third largest banking group. He was also a member of the Advisory Board of Arizon Sourcing AG, which is a cooperative of banking operators. In addition, he was the Chairman of the CIOs of the European Cooperative Banks, where he led several pan-European initiatives. In the early years of his career, he introduced offshoring to India for Swisscom, and founded a development company in southern Europe for Swiss banks.

Damir holds an Executive MBA from State University of New York, a Swiss Federal Diploma for Information Management, a Certificate of Leadership from the London Business School, and a Certificate in Disruptive Strategies with Clayton Christensen from Harvard Business School.