N26 hires new CPO

After a seven-month search, a successor has been found for the position of Head of Product. Gilles BianRosa is moving from Soundcloud to N26.

There have been plenty of changes in N26's leadership and management team in recent months. Now there is good news for the fintech: Gilles BianRosa is to become the new Chief Product Officer at N26. He was previously CPO at Soundcloud and Samsung Electronics.

BianRosa succeeds Georgina Smallwood, who left N26 last fall. In the meantime, Managing Director Valentin Stalf had taken over the position of Head of Product on an interim basis. He is delighted with the new addition: "With Gilles' many years of experience, we will be able to adapt our products even more to the personal lifestyle of our customers," says Stalf.

BianRosa will join N26 in the second quarter of the year and will lead all product teams in Vienna, Barcelona, New York and Berlin. "After almost two decades in Silicon Valley, I am very excited to become part of one of the world's most dynamic teams in the fintech space," says BianRosa about his move and has high hopes for his new employer: "N26 has managed to radically change the way we bank. I am convinced that N26 is only at the very beginning."