About Richard Kalas

Richard Kalas is a seasoned Client Solution Director with 30 years of experience in banking technology, specializing in innovative technology solutions. He has recently delivered the world's most successful digital native neobank, Salt Bank, in Romania. Richard Kalas excels in leveraging new technologies, composable architecture, and event-driven microservices for both greenfield and brownfield banks, ensuring innovative, scalable, and resilient banking solutions. His strategic vision and client-centric approach are focused on technology and solutions, making him a pivotal figure in the financial technology landscape. Richard Kalas is a Customer Solutions Director at GFT, helping our retail banking clients address their strategic and operational challenges in the new digital economy with truly innovative solutions and services. Before GFT, Richard Kalas was a Solutions Architect with Meniga, having held similar roles at Ubiquem and Temenos, leading solutions for organisations such as Metrobank, JPMC, UBS and The Bank of England.