Citi hired Sebastian Gnagnarella, a Google director of engineering who oversaw the Gemini Enterprise Platform’s deployment for Google’s cloud customers, as its head of applied AI and agent factory, according to a memo reported by Penny Crosman at American Banker. Gnagnarella will build Citi’s AI agents and the frameworks behind them inside the central AI group run by David Griffiths, the bank’s former CTO and now its group head of AI. He’s the second Google executive Citi has brought in this year, after Brian Saluzzo joined as CIO in March. Griffiths also moved Aida Filipovic into the role of head of responsible AI and Niamh O’Sullivan into head of AI strategy. Citi is still recruiting a head of AI-first development, so if you happen to know anyone…
