Paul Davis

About Paul Davis

Collaborative and accountable leader who energizes and aligns sales, marketing and operations teams to effectively drive services and utilize technology in the financial services and information technology industries.Develop and implement pragmatic approaches to address complex challenges. Recognized for delivering outstanding business results. Apply deep knowledge of the banking, payments and financial markets industries and leverage innovative capabilities in areas such as risk, compliance and cyber security in clever and innovative ways that achieve desired business outcomes.Agile leadership style, great communicator and mentor, and comfortable in highly matrixed organizations.

Experience

1. Director of Strategic Accounts

   Backbase

   Aug 2025 — Present

   As a digital banking executive, I helped financial institutions enter \"Growth Mode\" by leveraging Backbase\'s AI-powered Banking Platform. This complete stack provides a new formula for growth by enabling banks to unlock new revenue streams, reduce operational costs, and transform fragmented systems into a unified, intelligent operating model. I helped clients build a new era of banking with seamless integration, unified data, and Agentic AI, allowing them to deliver remarkable growth and outpace the competition.

Education

• The Wharton School

  IBM Master Deal Makers Program

  2009

• The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  Math with Computer Science Option

• Harvard Business School

  IBM Client Industry Certification Program

  2008

Skills

• Data Warehousing
• IT Management
• Business Analysis
• Business Intelligence
• Requirements Analysis
• Cloud Computing
• Software Project Management
• Itil
• Integration
• Program Management
• Sdlc
• Solution Architecture
• Disaster Recovery
• Vendor Management
• Management
• Soa
• IT Service Management
• Data Center
• IT Strategy
• Enterprise Software
• Enterprise Architecture
• Project Management