Grace Apps
Director, Ai Strategy & Product @RBC
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WORK HISTORY
Director, Ai Strategy & Product @RBC
Toronto, ON, CA
Responsible for shaping AI strategy across one of the most complex technology environments in Canadian financial services — developers, 1,300 application owners, and 9 global lines of business.Set strategic direction for how AI is prioritized, adopted, and scaled across enterprise engineering and architecture functions — operating as a senior advisor to technology leadership on AI investment and transformation prioritiesDeveloped the analytical frameworks used to assess where AI could deliver the highest business value across enterprise workflows — translating frontier AI capabilities into executable investment strategyDefined governance models and evaluation standards for the adoption of emerging AI technologies, including agentic systems — establishing how new capabilities are assessed, selected, and deployed responsibly at scaleServe as a senior translator between AI capability and business leadership — turning complex technical and portfolio data into clear narratives that drive executive decisions and organizational alignment
EDUCATION
McGill University
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Economics and International Development
SKILLS
ABOUT GRACE APPS
I lead enterprise AI transformation at RBC — turning AI from a technical capability into a scaled business driver across one of North America\'s largest financial institutions. Today I operate at the intersection of AI strategy and enterprise transformation — owning programs that are shaping how one of North America\'s largest banks builds, adopts, and scales AI across its workforce. My work is less about managing projects and more about designing how AI actually changes how people work — from operating model design to platform adoption to embedding AI into real business workflows at scale. Alongside this, I\'m the founder of Buff Intimates — a DTC brand I built from scratch across product, manufacturing, and growth. It\'s where I apply the same principles I use in enterprise — systems thinking, leverage, building for scale — in a much more hands-on, zero-to-one way. I\'m drawn to environments where there\'s genuine ambition around talent-centric AI transformation — and where strategy, execution, and people all have to move together to make it real.
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