Banking giant creates separate CIO and CTO positions as digital and AI capabilities become central to its strategy
Commonwealth Bank has restructured its executive technology leadership, creating two distinct roles to oversee its digital and artificial intelligence agenda.
Victoria Ledda has (pictured top right) been appointed group chief information officer (CIO) and Rodrigo Castillo (pictured top left) group chief technology officer (CTO), effective 1 July, subject to regulatory approvals. Both will report directly to chief executive Matt Comyn and join the bank's Executive Leadership Team.
Ledda joined CBA in 2021 and has since held senior roles including executive general manager of institutional banking and markets technology and executive general manager of retail technology. She was appointed interim co-CIO of business technology in November 2025. Before joining CBA, she spent 15 years at Goldman Sachs across London, New York, and Sydney, where as a managing director she led global digital platform transformations and drove cloud adoption.
In her new role, Ledda will lead business-aligned technology strategy and delivery across the group.
Castillo has been with CBA since 2023, initially as CTO and subsequently as interim co-CIO of central technology from November 2025. Prior to CBA, he held senior CIO and managing director roles at HSBC, where he oversaw major digital transformation programmes and led the deployment of generative and agentic AI capabilities at scale.
As new group CTO, Castillo will oversee enterprise technology foundations, engineering, security, and AI capabilities.
"Technology is central to CBA's strategy and to the experiences we provide for our customers," said Matt Comyn (pictured right), chief executive of Commonwealth Bank of Australia. "The pace of change in technology and AI means we need focused, hands-on leadership across both business-aligned technology delivery and the enterprise technology foundations that support the group.
"Victoria and Rodrigo bring complementary strengths and this model is designed to help CBA accelerate technology delivery, strengthen accountability and reflects CBA's continued focus on delivering safe, resilient and reliable technology for customers."
"These appointments reflect the depth of technology talent within CBA and our continued focus on delivering better, safer and more resilient technology for customers."
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