{"id":613571,"date":"2026-04-17T19:49:23","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/613571\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T19:49:23","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T19:49:23","slug":"westpac-hires-a-chief-ai-innovation-officer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/613571\/","title":{"rendered":"Westpac hires a chief AI innovation officer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Westpac has appointed a chief AI innovation officer, with former CBA and Meta engineer Maggie Shi hired for the new role.<\/p>\n

\"Westpac<\/p>\n

Shi revealed the appointment in a LinkedIn post that Digital Nation\u00a0verified with the bank.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s understood that the chief AI innovation officer remit covers the incubation and scaling of solutions built on new and emerging AI technologies.<\/p>\n

This includes experimentation and prototyping across generative AI and agentic AI systems with an aim of driving practical improvements across the Westpac business.<\/p>\n

The role reports to chief data, digital and AI officer Andrew McMullan, who also came to Westpac from CBA.<\/a><\/p>\n

Shi was most recently a distinguished engineer for CBA<\/a> for almost four years, where – according to her LinkedIn profile – she led \u201can engineering team at the core of the bank\u2019s data and AI platform, focused on MLOps, LLM Ops, generative AI and agentic AI agent[s].\u201d<\/p>\n

In a LinkedIn post<\/a> announcing her move to Westpac, Shi referred to her career journey to this point, and also confirmed that the chief AI innovation officer role at the bank is newly-created.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is a newly created role focused on helping drive AI and GenAI adoption at enterprise scale, bringing together AI, engineering, data, and automation to create meaningful and lasting impact,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Westpac has appointed a chief AI innovation officer, with former CBA and Meta engineer Maggie Shi hired for…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":613572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-613571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=613571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}