Sigga Sigurdardottir
Global Head Of Digital And CX, IWPB at HSBC
London, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolSigga Sigurdardottir is a C-suite FinTech and digital transformation leader with two decades of global experience driving customer-led change across Fortune 500 firms, currently serving as Global Head of Digital and CX at HSBC. She blends strategic P&L and board-level governance with hands-on product and marketing expertise—spanning digital payments, e-commerce, omnichannel acquisition and UX—to build startup-like innovation inside large organisations. Her career spans leadership roles at American Express, Santander, Tesco Bank and Experian, plus non-executive board duties, reflecting deep client-facing credibility with CEOs and boards. A DBA candidate from Manchester and IESE MBA alumna, she is known for scaling agile, cross-regional teams and embedding continuous innovation in regulated financial services. Less obvious: she pairs senior strategic stewardship with practical engineering empathy, evidenced by front-end open-source contributions that modernised React components, showing she can translate technical detail into customer-facing experience improvements.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
MBA, MBA at IESE Business SchoolDoctor of Business Administration - DBA Leadership and Innovation, Doctor of Business Administration - DBA Leadership and Innovation at The University of ManchesterBachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Marketing, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Marketing at University of South Carolina-Coastal
English, Spanish, Icelandic, Danish
Github Skills (5)
hook10
javascript10
mention10
front-end-development10
react10
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
signavio/react-mentions
May 2022 - Jul 2022
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Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:24 reviews, 17 commits, 35 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Sigga focused on refactoring and enhancing the `react-mentions` library, converting several components to functional components using React hooks. They modified the `Suggestion` and `Highlighter` components and updated the `SuggestionsOverlay` to utilize hooks. Their work also addressed a typing issue within the `SuggestionsOverlay` and made various edits to the example pages, indicating a focus on improving the component's usability and code quality.
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Sigrsig/Website-2
Dec 2020 - Aug 2021
Current work in progress. An updated personal website made with React
Contributions:5 commits, 4 pushes in 8 months
reactin-progressjavascriptupdatedreactjs
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