Yasaman Hadjibashi, Data & Product Alchemist

Yasaman Hadjibashi leads the innovation agenda for the Barclays Africa Group including the bank’s accelerator program with Techstars after having been the first ever Chief Data Officer for the Bank. She joined Barclays after completing her MBA at Harvard Business School in 2010. She led the end-to-end pan-Africa big data transformation, pioneering an internationally award-winning portfolio of data-led products and customer experiences, including Africa’s first ever AI-enabled chatbot.


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