StanChart’s former AI chief joins Accenture as Southeast Asia head

David Hardoon, who left Standard Chartered after less than a year, will lead advanced AI for the region at a consultancy betting heavily on enterprise adoption.

The corporate AI leadership market moves quickly enough that a year now counts as a tenure. David Hardoon, Standard Chartered’s former global head of AI enablement, has joined Accenture as managing director and head of advanced AI for Southeast Asia, a move that says as much about where demand for AI expertise is pooling as about any one executive’s career.

Hardoon arrives with a résumé that spans the institutions most concerned with how AI is governed rather than merely built. He joined Standard Chartered in April 2025 as global head of AI enablement, bringing more than two decades of experience across government, academia, and banking.

Before that he served as the Monetary Authority of Singapore’s first chief data officer, a role that placed him...

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