N26 hires new CPO

After a seven-month search, there is a successor for the post of head of product. Gilles BianRosa moves from Soundcloud to N26.

Changes in N26's leadership and management ranks have been aplenty in recent months. Now there's good news for the fintech: Gilles BianRosa is the new head of platform 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 post of head of product on an interim basis. He is pleased about the new addition: "With Gilles' many years of experience, we will adapt our products even more to the personal lifestyle of our customers," says Stalf.

BianRosa will start at 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," BianRosa says of 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."