Speaker and moderator at Global Tech Forum, CNews, TAdviser SummIT, Tech Week and FinCore. Commentary in Vedomosti, Rossiyskaya Gazeta and IT-World. Author of the Telegram channel “Zapiski CIO” (in Russian). Global CIO “Top-100 IT leaders” rating participant.
Roman Mezentsev
CIO / CDTO and advisor to owners, CEOs and boards. 20 years in IT, 15+ in management, mostly in banking. I help cut the cost of IT and keep critical systems running, then build the IT strategy, the change portfolio and AI where it actually pays off.
Focus
- IT cost and efficiencyWhere the IT budget goes: licences, infrastructure, vendors, duplicate systems. Lower total cost of ownership through platform consolidation and firm vendor management.
- Reliability and continuityAvailability raised from 99.8% to 99.99% at Pochta Bank; disaster recovery and business continuity under rapid load growth.
- IT strategy and portfolioAn IT strategy that drives decisions: portfolio prioritisation, roadmap, shorter time-to-market.
- Regulation and import substitution10,000+ workstations moved from Windows to Linux without business disruption, in line with Bank of Russia and security requirements.
- AI adoptionAI where it pays off: use cases screened by net effect, ROI and total cost of ownership; AI partners inside business lines; an end-to-end process from opportunity to measured effect.
Experience
Director of AI Adoption
BCS Financial Group
Director of IT Services Project Management
Pochta Bank
Head of Business Lines and Information Systems Support Department
Renaissance Credit
Head of Investment Business Systems Support
Rosselkhozbank
Head of Technical Support and Software Development
Bell Integrator
From service engineer to technical support team lead
Hewlett-Packard / Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Engineer (Moscow Power Engineering Institute, MPEI), manager (State University of Management), psychologist (Moscow Institute of Psychoanalysis). ITIL v3 Expert.