Danilo McGarry

Why organisations work with Danilo McGarry

• He has run AI inside two of the largest regulated enterprises on the planet. Buyers get an operator who has defended budgets, cleared risk committees and shipped at scale, not a consultant describing other people’s work.
• His track record is tied to outcomes in the numbers. His work at Alter Domus is associated with a period of significant valuation growth, and his engagements are framed around measurable cost, revenue and risk impact rather than adoption metrics.
• He sits at the board-level interface of AI. He teaches on the Financial Times Board Directors Programme and advises the CIPD on AI, which means the language he uses lands with directors, not just technologists.
• He explains complex AI choices in terms non-technical leaders can act on. That is what earns him repeat invitations from banks, insurers, health systems and consultancies where the decision rests with a chief executive or a chair.

Biography highlights

• Former Head of AI at Citigroup, leading enterprise AI and automation inside one of the world’s largest banks.
• Former Head of AI at UnitedHealth Group, operator of one of the largest software-robot estates in any healthcare business.
• Former Global Head of AI and Automation at Alter Domus, the fund services group, from December 2019.
• Strategic adviser on artificial intelligence to the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD).
• Faculty contributor to the Financial Times Board Directors Programme.
• Host of the “It’s All About AI” podcast; TEDx speaker; ranked on Thinkers360 and Onalytica lists of leading AI voices.

Biography

The hard part of enterprise AI is not the model. It is the decision to commit, the governance to contain the risk, and the operational grip to turn a working pilot into a line on the P&L. Danilo McGarry has spent his career on the inside of that problem.

At Citigroup he led artificial intelligence and machine learning, launching automation and AI initiatives across capital markets operations. He then became a senior AI leader at UnitedHealth Group, where his remit included a programme of roughly 3,500 software “digital workers” embedded in one of the largest healthcare businesses in the United States. As Global Head of AI and Automation at Alter Domus from 2019, he built an AI and automation function inside a fund services firm through a period of significant growth. Earlier roles at JPMorgan and Royal Bank of Canada gave him the grounding in regulated operations that now sits under everything he says on stage.

That operator track record is why boards listen. He is a faculty contributor to the Financial Times Board Directors Programme and strategic adviser on AI to the CIPD, which puts him in front of chairs, chief executives and people leaders making the governance calls. He is cited and quoted in outlets including the Financial Times, The Times, Bloomberg, Forbes and WIRED, and ranks on Thinkers360 and Onalytica lists of leading voices in AI and intelligent automation.

His argument on stage is practical. Treat AI as an operating-model question, not a tooling question. Pick the handful of processes where the economics are real, industrialise them, and build the governance that lets the next wave scale without fresh permission every time. It is a message that lands with leadership teams who are tired of pilot decks and want to know what to do on Monday.

Key speaking topics

• Enterprise AI strategy
• AI operating models and governance
• Intelligent automation at scale
• AI in financial services and healthcare
• Board-level AI literacy
• Digital workers and the future of operations
• Responsible AI adoption

Ideal for

• Boards and chief executives setting enterprise AI policy and investment envelopes.
• CIOs, CDOs and heads of transformation running AI and automation portfolios.
• CHROs and people leaders rethinking workforce design around AI and digital workers.
• Regulated-sector leadership teams in banking, insurance, asset servicing and healthcare.

Audience outcomes

• A clearer view of where AI actually moves the numbers inside their own operating model.
• A working vocabulary for the governance, risk and workforce questions AI creates at board level.
• Concrete reference points from AI deployments inside Citigroup, UnitedHealth Group and Alter Domus.
• A sharper read on which AI investments industrialise and which stay trapped as pilots.
• Confidence to set the next twelve months of AI priorities with fewer, better bets.