Westpac's group chief information officer, Dave Curran, has decided to retire from Westpac at the end of January 2019. Craig Bright, currently the chief technology officer for Citigroup's Global Consumer Bank, has been named as Curran's successor, starting in December 2018.In announcing the changes yesterday, Westpac group chief executive officer Brian Hartzer, thanked Curran for the pivotal role he had played in leading the group's technology function during the past four years though a number of major transformation projects. This work has included an infrastructure and operations initiative that involved moving Westpac's technology capabilities to the cloud, and bringing a change in culture through the introduction of agile methodologies, Hartzer said.Hartzer added that Curran would continue to work with Westpac in a variety of ways, including remaining on the Board of the Westpac Bicentennial Foundation, a A$100 million scholarship fund with an exclusive focus on Australian education and leadership.Westpac's next group CIO, Craig Bright, brings "leadership skills and well-recognised expertise in leading technology functions for large, complex, multi-country banking operations," the bank stated. Melbourne-educated Bright is leaving a world stage after global roles with Citigroup and Barclays."He has held divisional CIO roles in retail banking, business banking and investment banking and led complex global scale technology operations," Hartzer said.Bright, who started his career with the State Electricity Commission of Victoria as a systems engineer, joined Citigroup in 2011 as managing director with responsibility for the consumer bank's infrastructure, a role that was later expanded to include production management of thousands of applications across the globe to support Citigroup's consumer bank; and leadership of Citi's global data centre network. Prior to this, he was global head of infrastructure and service delivery for Barclays retail and commercial banking business, after nine years at National Australia Bank.