“Only when you’re working that intersection of business and technology do you bring things together. There’s a connectivity that we’re trying to build up” – Mike Dargan, Group CIO your outcomes in partnership with the business… If those were your only two metrics and you understand, internalise, interpret them in the right way, that enables you to run your business.” A diverse workforce is an empowered one, too, stresses Dargan. His logic is straight forward - if the human population is 50-50 malefemale, then a technology organisation with too few females probably doesn’t have the right level of talent. As if timed to make the point, a few days
after we speak Dargan is joining colleagues at base in Switzerland for a week-long series of events aimed at furthering the cause of gender diversity in tech. UBS also marked International Day of the Girl recently, and has an ongoing Women in Technology initiative. “I look at the world through many lenses. One is that I’m a father to two young daughters. Another is my job and what that means. There’s been a big piece for us in terms of what diversity means.”
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