Kevin Johnson

Kevin Johnson heads the Innovation competence centre for Euroclear Group
Prior to joining Euroclear Kevin was the Centre of Expertise Lead for Innovation at ING, and before that Kevin headed up Innotribe – the SWIFT initiative to reinforce the importance of collaboration in innovation. 
He has been a part of the FinTech ecosystem since 2014, leading SWIFT’s Innovation Challenges into emerging innovation ecosystems, before successfully launching the Industry challenge programme bringing financial institutions together with FinTech players to collaboratively solve pain points. 
At ING his role, with his team was to bring together growth stage FinTech players with business leaders across the bank, to collaboratively solve problems, unlock opportunities, and to bring a customer centric way of working to the bank.
 
At Euroclear, Kevin has lead a number of Innovation projects, and now he and his team focusses on supporting the Euroclear by bringing the outside in, both from collaboration with startups, running experiments to (in)validate ideas, to training and the innovation methodology.

Kevin brings a wealth of experience from IT Development, to Innovation Consulting and Coaching, with a strong focus on Project Execution, utilizing the ability to sit between the business and IT worlds, ensuring both sides are in alignment. He also uses his experience to help startups explain and develop their value proposition to their customers, and to help corporates see potential in collaboration.
 
He is a passionate photographer, based in Brussels, Belgium with his wife and 2 children.