Mizuho Americas
Digital Innovation Group

Digital Innovation Group

Serving at the nexus of the emerging innovation landscape, we connect third-party vendor solutions to Mizuho’s top decision makers in order to fulfil our business technology needs and advance Mizuho’s digital innovation strategy.

The Digital Innovation Group partners across Mizuho’s lines of business to identify and integrate innovation solutions from a global network of market-leaders, start-ups, vendors and investors; and promote an enterprise-wide approach towards embracing a culture of innovation.

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Identify emerging technology solutions
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Connect Mizuho with innovation partners
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Promote digital progress and accountability

Digital Innovation Day - Cross-functional teams compete to develop a winning AI use case in the Mizuho AI Open

Twelve teams representing employees from across the firm participated in the Mizuho AI Open. Each team learned about the capabilities of Microsoft 365 Copilot, and then developed pitches of their own use case that leverages Microsoft's AI technology to senior firm leaders. At the Digital Innovation Day reception the teams presented their pitches to the firm's employees who voted on the best idea, which will be prioritized in the firm's roll out of AI technology.

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“We helped create this group as a gateway to attract, assess, and apply the technological advances that can support our progressive innovation agenda. We invite your ideas and look forward to exploring the possibilities of driving change that provides economic and social benefit.”
Head of Strategy Paul T. Hughes and Deputy CIO Dawn Yiannoullou

Why work with us?

To ensure the alignment of our internal teams with the firm’s strategic goals, it is essential to have a facilitator who acts as a bridge builder. In order to address our technology demand challenges effectively, we extend the following support and collaboration opportunities:

Access to key decision makers within Mizuho

Resources and channels to accelerate innovative ideas and POCs

Inclusivity of external vendor technologies into our bank’s environment

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Dawn Yiannoullou
Deputy Chief Information Officer
Focused on leveraging technology to make our businesses run more efficiently and effectively, she works with her team to improve processes and optimize operations through automation and innovative solutions.
Paul Hughes
Head of Strategy
Leads the coordination and execution of Mizuho’s firm-wide strategy in the Americas. Prior to this role, he held various positions across the firm, including in Corporate Development, Fixed Income (Strategic Credit), Banking (Debt Capital Markets) and Futures.
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