Deloitte Consulting Southeast Asia announced that Axel Winter had joined its Financial Service Team as Director. The former Global Chief Architect at GE Money Headquarters will be based in Bangkok/Thailand; specializing in “Lean IT”, Service Oriented Architectures and Technology Innovation. Mr. Winter has a broad range of experience in working with IT Solutions for the Financial Services industry on matters such as IT Strategy and Effectiveness, Outsourcing and Offshoring, Banking Architecture, Rapid Application Delivery, and deploying Open Source for aggressive cost reduction in both, international and Asian companies.

Commenting on his joining, Mr. Winter said "Deloitte Consulting has an excellent reputation and is well positioned to help Financial Service Clients streamline their IT, allowing the delivery of new products and customer features in a short period of time, while retaining a low cost foot print".