He never intended to get into banking. But when Citi approached him to become the bank’s chief technology officer (CTO) for the global transaction services division, Antonio Benjamin felt like he had found a platform to improve people’s lives with technology.
“My own personal agenda of trying to work for social good and my personal interest in technology matched really well with the agenda of the bank in trying to be a leading financial institution,” he explains. “I believe this creates a platform for good.”