Bank of Ireland Appoints Citigroup's Prag Sharma as First Chief AI Officer

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Bank of Ireland hired Prag Sharma away from Citigroup to become its first chief AI officer. The appointment continues a pattern of mid-tier European banks creating C-level AI roles and staffing them from US global banks that built AI functions earlier. The signal for builders: enterprise AI budget authority in banking is consolidating under a named executive rather than being distributed across CTO and data-science org charts.