Dan Blackburn

Standard Chartered: We are a leading international banking group, with a presence in 53 of the world’s most dynamic markets and serving clients in a further 64. Our purpose is to drive commerce and prosperity through our unique diversity, and our heritage and values are expressed in our brand promise, here for good. Standard Chartered PLC is listed on the London and Hong Kong stock exchanges.
Dan Blackburn joined Standard Chartered as Head of HR, Transformation, Technology & Operations (TTO) in April 2023. As part of the Standard Chartered HR leadership team and reporting to the Global Head of HR for Functions and TTO, Dan is accountable for leading HR strategy and organisation transformation across TTO as well as being responsible for partnering both the Bank’s CIOs for Corporate and Investment Banking, Wealth and Retail Banking and Corporate Functions and the Bank’s Transformation leaders across TTO and our three year Fit for Growth programme.

Key focuses for Dan are workforce optimisation and organisational change, improving strategic workforce planning to enable a skills-based organisation across Technology as we continue to drive towards being a customer centric, data driven, digital bank.
Prior to Standard Chartered, Dan held a number of HR leadership roles in Dyson Technology and Vodafone working as an HR generalist and transformation leader in UK, SG and USA. With an engineering project management background, Dan started in Telecoms leading large infrastructure programmes before switching over to HR and focusing on organisational change and workforce strategy in a variety of generalist and COE roles.