About
Sebastian Wilson
Sebastian Wilson is a Senior Director and Change Executive with more than 20 years of experience leading digital transformation, AI, Cloud, and enterprise change programmes across some of the world's most recognised institutions.
His career spans HSBC, JP Morgan, UBS, Ernst & Young, Dixon Carphone, and BSkyB. He also directs a UK residential property investment portfolio and actively mentors through the King's Trust.
Sebastian is a strategic thinker with deep humility — low ego, high EQ, and driven by curiosity, tenacity, and integrity. He is a trusted adviser and sounding board who quickly turns strategic imperatives into actionable plans, creating compelling narratives that align and empower teams.
"Sebastian is an energetic and enthusiastic professional with excellent engagement skills. He thinks broadly about business and technology, and makes connections that others miss. He led many important technology initiatives in my organisation (Transformation projects, AIOps, and Google Cloud projects). We worked closely together on several ground-breaking Global Diversity and Inclusion initiatives across the Technology function, gaining support from the Group Chief Executive. Sebastian is a first-class professional - business savvy, creative, with strong delivery skills."
Darryl West
Former Group CIO, HSBC
Core expertise
- Change & Digital Transformation
- AIOps implementation
- Product Development
- Technical Leadership
- Cloud Strategy & Delivery
I led multiple global transformation programmes across the group with the movement of processes people & technology governance and strategy for HSBC's largest digital transformation programme, delivering £1.5 billion in savings and impacting 36,000 employees globally.
"Sebastian provided support and guidance on the IT transformation agenda. He is an unwavering professional, driven in delivering commitments with passion."
"Sebastian is an energetic professional with excellent engagement skills. He thinks broadly about business and technology, and makes connections that others miss."
"I worked with Sebastian in the Commercial Strategy Team (Pin Point) for 9 months. Sebastian has great technical knowledge but his real strength is that he is a people person. He is the consultant you can send into any situation to quickly gain traction, quash friction and realigned resources. He really cares about other people and their opinions and as such became the core voice of the colleagues and customer whilst focusing on the strategic commercial lenses. Sebastian was invaluable for our team, in order to shape our current and future plans and solutions."