Summary
Diana Sanchez is a strategic technology and people leader with 11 years of experience shaping how organizations adopt innovation and AI at scale. Currently a Sr. Director and former head of AI People Strategy at HSBC, she has led large-scale change programs across 230,000 colleagues and launched corporate venture and open innovation arms in Latin America. Her background blends startup banking, venture go-to-market execution, and cross-regional workforce strategy—skills she used to catalyze Miami’s emergence as a tech hub and to design measurable upskilling and adoption metrics. She thrives at the intersection of tech, innovation, and people, translating complex technical disruption into practical talent and operating-model solutions. Comfortable convening senior stakeholders, she pairs a communications-oriented academic foundation with hands-on program delivery across the US, UK, Mexico, and Hong Kong. Known for pragmatic creativity, she builds repeatable systems that make cutting-edge ideas adoptable across large, risk-aware institutions.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree English Language and Literature/Letters, Bachelor’s Degree English Language and Literature/Letters at Queens College
Master’s Degree of Science Mass Communication, Master’s Degree of Science Mass Communication at Florida International University
English, Spanish